Description & Application

Plant Science for Global Food Security is a program funded by the National Science Foundation that sends eight undergraduate students for six weeks during summer to the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines to participate in hands-on research on rice science. This program is led by Purdue University and recruits students from Purdue as well as five partner institutions: North Carolina A & T University, Florida A &M University, University of Illinois, Tuskegee University, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.