Structural Adjustment at Global Agriculture Programs
On January 1, 2005, the College combined Academic Programs and Global Agriculture Programs under the Associate Dean for Academic and Global Programs. This move will help to ensure greater integration between student learning and the international dimensions of the College. Several personnel changes also took effect on January 1:

David Acker now serves as Associate Dean for Academic and Global Programs. He is now located in Room 134 Curtiss and can be reached at 294-6614.

Denise Bjelland, Associate Director of GAP, is now responsible for overall GAP operations, sponsored projects, and financial management

Shelley Taylor, Assistant Director of GAP, provides leadership for study abroad and faculty development

Eduarda Becerra provides leadership for international visitors and short-term trainees

Jodi Cornell is our newest employee, providing coordination of study abroad programs

Sue Finestead serves as our account specialist providing overall support to GAP financial management

Difei Shen coordinates a variety of programs within the study abroad area

Carrie Drummond coordinates the USAID/ALO-funded India project and assists in grant writing

ISU Team Travels to India

A team of ISU faculty/staff traveled to Bangalore, India, January 1-6, 2005, to work with the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) on a project funded by USAID/ALO. Through this $300,000 grant, ISU and UAS faculty will collaborate to devise sustainable rural development strategies and the resulting policy implications for agriculture in India. From ISU’s College of Agriculture, David Acker (Associate Dean, Academic and Global Programs), Ramesh Kanwar (Department Chair, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering), Arne Hallam (Department Chair, Economics) and Carrie Drummond (Program Assistant, Global Ag Programs) participated in needs assessment meetings with local farmers. This needs assessment will enable the ISU-UAS team to identify short- and long-term interventions for local farming communities. UAS team members will travel to ISU in late spring to work with other ISU faculty on campus. Other ISU team members include Ricardo Salvador (Department Chair, Agronomy) and Bob Jolly (Professor, Economics).

2005 Scientific Cooperation Research Program
USDA FAS has announced the competition for 2005 Scientific Cooperation Research Program. The application guide can be viewed at:

www.fas.usda.gov/icd/grants/scrp

The 2005 competition will support three types of projects:
1. Long-term research collaboration worldwide (one to three tears);
2. Short-term scientific cooperation worldwide (short-term exchanges visits for potential longer-term research);
3. Scientific cooperation exchange program with the People's Republic of China

Both electronic submission via Grants.gov and paper submission by March 15, 2005