The program objective is to provide rapid financial support to assist public, private Stale and or other colleges and universities whose activities relate to the 590 Merrill Act special emphasis areas. Overall goals of this program are to assist these institutions in their efforts to increase minority participation in agricultural and related field, and to improve higher educational programs and resources that prepare students to enter these fields. Money call be used to provide assistantships for minority students; assist in arranging work experiences for students with business, industry, and government agencies; help faculty members pursue postgraduate work in such fields as animal science, plant science, food and nutrition, clothing and textiles, computer science, and agricultural economics- Students must apply to those institutions that received the money. Contact the address listed above for a list of those institutions. Money available: $35,000 FELLOWSHIP TO STUDY FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE (Food and Agricultural Science National Needs Graduate Fellowship Grants 10.210) Grant Programs Manager Office of Higher Education Programs, CSREES US Dept of Agricultural Administrative Building. Room 338A 14th and Independence Ave., SW Washington DC 20250 202-720-7H54 The program awards grants to colleges and universities that have superior teaching and research competencies in the food and agricultural sciences.
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