PAID OVERSEAS INTERNSHIPS WITH THE FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE IN USDA. We are looking for a few outstanding senior and graduate level college and university students to work in our OVERSEAS offices to promote US agricultural interests through the International Agricultural Internship Program (IAIP) for SPRING 2007. The USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service, one of the US government foreign service agencies, places about 10 students for each semester (fall, spring and summer) with excellent analysis, marketing, writing, language and organizational skills and experience to work on international agricultural trade policy issues, commodity and market analysis and organizing trade events in our overseas offices for a 10-16 week PAID INTERNSHIP. US citizen students who are majoring in a business or science related agricultural field, i.e. Ag Econ, Econ, Finance, Business or Marketing, International Studies or Relations, Law or in a Biotechnology Program are eligible. Online registration for the summer 2007 application deadline is January 9, 2007 and the fall 2007 application deadline is April 17, 2007. For more information on FAS internship programs, please go to: http://www.fas.usda.gov/admin/newjobs/newjobs.html or contact the internships coordinator at internships@fas.usda.gov Margie Bauer, IAIP and CIP Coordinator

OPPORTUNITIES TO FUND GRADUATE EDUCATION: what follows are the URLs for a few of these. If you are considering graduate school (as opposed to professional school), I encourage you to explore these options. The deadlines tend to come up in the fall, in mid-November for the most part. Often a proposal is required so it is important to factor in the time needed to prepare a competitive application:

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship: http://www.nsfgradfellows.org/
Department of Energy Graduate Fellowship and more: http://see.orau.org/
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Minority Fellowships:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/FORDfellowships/fordpredoc.html