Agriculture and Food Research Initiative: NIFA Fellowships Grant Program

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The AFRI NIFA Fellowship RFA focuses on developing the next generation of scientists who will lead agriculture into the future by solving current and future challenges facing our society. The AFRI NIFA Fellowships Grant Program targets talented, highly-motivated doctoral candidates and postdoctoral trainees that demonstrate remarkable promise and the ability to increase the number of gifted agricultural scientists in the United States. The NIFA Fellows are individuals who have the potential for remarkable accomplishments in agricultural science. The Program seeks to develop the technical and academic competence of doctoral candidates and the research independence and teaching credentials of postdoctoral scientists in the food, forestry and agricultural sciences that are within NIFA�s challenge areas through well-developed and highly interactive mentoring and training activities. Project types supported by AFRI within this RFA include single-function Research, Education, and Extension Projects and multi-function Integrated Research, Education, and/or Extension Projects.

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