This $247,500 project grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Higher Education - Multicultural Scholars Grant Program (CFDA 10.220) will support scholarships, mentoring, and experiential learning opportunities for underrepresented minority students pursuing STEM-focused bachelor's degrees in Oregon State University's (OSU) College of Agricultural Sciences. The program aims to increase the pipeline of diverse, highly skilled...
The Florida International University was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Higher Education - Multicultural Scholars Grant Program (CFDA 10.220). The grant funds the Multicultural Scholars Program, which will recruit and train five undergraduate scholars from underrepresented minority communities. The scholars will receive training in big data applications in agriculture and natural resources...
The Colorado State University System was awarded a $140,860 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Higher Education - Multicultural Scholars Grant Program. The grant will provide five $6,500 annual scholarships for up to four years to students from underrepresented groups in food, agriculture, human sciences, conservation, natural resources, and water sciences. The Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, CSU ACCESS...
This Project Grant award, totaling $217,678, was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program (CFDA 10.220). The funding will support Utah State University's efforts to increase recruitment, retention, and degree completion of underrepresented minority students in food, agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences disciplines. Key program elements include professional development,...
This $247,500 federal Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Youth, Family, and Community (an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture) under the Higher Education - Multicultural Scholars Grant Program (CFDA 10.220) will support scholarships and educational programming at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to recruit, engage, retain, mentor, and train historically underserved Hispanic students pursuing Bachelor of Science degrees in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems....
The Regents of the University of Idaho received a $247,500 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Higher Education - Multicultural Scholars Grant Program (CFDA 10.220). The grant will provide 40 annual $5,000 scholarships over 5 years to recruit, retain, and graduate underrepresented minority undergraduate students in the university's food, nutrition, and agricultural sciences programs. In addition to the scholarships,...
The College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES) at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California was awarded a $196,733 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Higher Education - Multicultural Scholars Grant Program (CFDA 10.220). The grant will support CAFES' Multicultural Scholars Program from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2027. The Multicultural Scholars Program aims to...
This five-year, $246,000 project grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Higher Education National Needs Graduate Fellowship Grants program will support multidisciplinary training for six graduate students pursuing master's degrees in plant production sciences at Oregon State University's Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center. The grant aims to engage students in field-based and traditional campus learning environments across...
This four-year, $975,314 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants program will support collaboration between California State University, Monterey Bay and the University of California, Santa Cruz to broaden participation in sustainable agriculture education. Key initiatives include a two-year scholars program at CSUMB for underrepresented undergraduate students majoring in food,...
The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $241,400 Project Grant to Fresno State Foundation under the Higher Education - Multicultural Scholars Grant Program (CFDA 10.220). The grant will support the PATHWAYS IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION FOR MULTICULTURAL SCHOLARS WITH COLLABORATION BETWEEN FRESNO STATE AND MADERA COMMUNITY COLLEG program from August 2022 through August 2027. The program aims to increase the ethnic and cultural diversity of the food and...