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2012 Wallace-Carver Fellows

The prestigious USDA Wallace-Carver Internship offers the most promising college students in America the opportunity to collaborate with world-renowned scientists, policymakers and public servants through paid internships with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In the Summer of 2012, sixteen fellows were stationed at USDA research centers and field offices across the country to analyze agricultural and economic policy; assist in the management of food, nutrition and rural development programs; and take part in groundbreaking field and laboratory-based research.

SHRADDHA BATRA
American University

Placement: Economic Research
Service - Washington DC

SARAH COX
Purdue University

Placement: ARS Southern Horticultural
Research Laboratory - Poplarville, MS

IZZY ESLER
Oberlin College

Placement: Forestry Service -
Columbus, OH

PAVANE GORREPATI
Yale University

Placement: Office of the Secretary of Agriculture - Washington DC

NAOMI HARPER
University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign

Placement: ARS Jean Mayer Human
Nutrition Center on Aging - Boston, MA

JAMES LINDGREN
Macalester College

Placement: Office of the Secretary of Agriculture - Washington DC

HANNAH MCATEE
Arizona State University

Placement: Food Safety and Inspection
Service - Washington DC

JENNA MOSER
Penn State University

Placement: Natural Resource
Conservation Service - Hammonton, NJ

MARC QUEZADA
Iowa State University

Placement: ARS National Lab for Agriculture and the Environment - Ames, IA

     

ELIZABETH ROCHE
Ohio State University

Placement: ARS Foreign Disease - Weed Research Unit - Ft. Detrick, MD

WILLIAM ROONEY
Texas A&M University

Placement: ARS Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center - College Station, TX

LAUREN SCHEFTER
St. Olaf College

Placement: ARS Children's Nutrition
Research Center - Houston, TX

JUSTIN SONG
Princeton University

Placement: Office of Ethics, Science
Division - Washington DC

RAMYA SRIDHARAN
University of Delaware

Placement: ARS Diet, Genomics and
Immunology Lab - Beltsville, MD

TIFFANIE STONE
University of Minnesota

Placement: ARS North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station - Ames, IA

MEERA SURY
Carleton College

Placement: Foreign Agricultural
Service - Washington DC

   


 

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