IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program 2007
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), located just outside Vienna, Austria, each year sponsors a fellowship program for graduate students who are studying in fields relevant to IIASA's work on global change issues. About 50-60 graduate students from around the world spend the summer working closely with IIASA senior researchers, on projects relevant to each student's thesis topic. They end the summer with an international network of colleagues interested in various aspects of global change issues, and often have produced a paper that can be published.

The application deadline for the 2007 YSSP Program is January 15, 2007. For more information: www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/YSP/index.html

5th Global Conference of GCHERA
GCHERA, the Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research in Agriculture, is holding its fifth global conference in San Jose, Costa Rica on March 5-8, 2007. Earth University is the host institution and one day of the meetings will be held there. For more information, please visit: www.gchera.org

FAS Seeks Hosts for WIS Borlaug Fellows
USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is seeking U.S. universities willing to host six agricultural scientists from the African countries of Mali, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, and Nigeria. These six Women in Science (WIS) Borlaug Fellows have been selected based on their academic and leadership skills and experiences. Their topics of research/study are focused in the agricultural sciences. The expected time frame for the five week program is Spring, 2007. Each Fellow has the following specific research interests:

Fellow 1 - (Mali) - Food Scientist and Nutritionist: interested in researching effect of traditional processing on the nutritive value of sorghum/millet and its nutritional status.
Fellow 2 - (Uganda) - Agricultural Engineer: interested in analyzing rainwater harvesting procedures and other water supplies for improving agricultural production.
Fellow 3 - (Nigeria) - Food Scientist: interested in food technology and new product development, food quality and food safety processes for improving nutritional in-take.
Fellow 4 - (Nigeria) - Agricultural Extension officer: interested in information and extension communication, training and gender studies.
Fellow 5 - (Kenya) - Food Scientist: interested in effect of honeybees as pollinators on seed production of indigenous African vegetables for household food security.
Fellow 6 - (Zambia) - Soil Scientist: interested in land use/land cover classification, wants to study application of GIS and remote sensing for soil evaluations.

If you would like to express your interest in hosting these Fellows, please send an estimated budget for the six Fellows and a brief (one-page or less) e-mail message to: KarenUetrecht@fas.usda.gov. The e-mail message should outline institutional capabilities, research expertise, previous experience with African agriculture and gender studies programs. FAS would like to receive all expressions of interest by Friday, November 24, 2006, so that universities can be selected by the end of December, 2006. Funding support will be provided by USAID and FAS as part of the Borlaug Fellows Program. For more information on this opportunity, please contact Karen Uetrecht, USDA/FAS (202-690-3359). For more information on the Borlaug Program, please visit www.fas.usda.gov/icd/borlaug/borlaug.htm

Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Seminar
The Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods will present a special seminar entitled “Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Sustainable Livelihoods, Kamuli district, Uganda.”

Tuesday, November 28
10 a.m.
09 Curtiss Hall

Faculty Panel:  Lee Burras (Agronomy), Lorna Michael Butler (Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture), Jan Flora (Sociology) and Richard Schultz (Natural Resource Ecology and Management)

Exchange Visitor Form for Visiting Scholars (DS-2019 Forms) - Reminder
DS-2019 (Exchange Visitor Forms for Visiting Scholars) forms no longer need to be signed by the Dean of Agriculture or by Global Agriculture Programs. They may be forwarded directly to ISS from the departments.

Stories of Teaching and Learning Abroad Seminar Series
Come hear about adventurous ISU faculty using the world as their classroom:

January 23, 2007, 4:00pm; 331 Palmer
Utilizing In-Country Resources in Study Abroad
Ken Schindele and Carl Bleyle

February 6, 2007, 12 noon; location TBD
Service Learning in Study Abroad
Nancy T. Guthrie and Gail Nonnecke/Lee Burras

March: date and location TBD
Field Work as a Component of Study Abroad
Cheryl Reitmeier and Margaret Mook

Upcoming Travel Courses

	Country	Focus	Department(s)	Group Leader(s)	Term
	Mexico	Agroforestry Systems: Local and Global Perspectives	NREM	Heidi Asbjornsen	Fall, 2006
	Panama	Tropical Agricultural Production, International Business, and Trade in Panama	Agronomy Economics	Russ Mullen Ebby Luvaga Eduarda Becerra	Winter, 2006
	Australia	Agriculture Production, Business and Trade in Australia	Economics	Sergio Lence Ebby Luvaga	Spring, 2007
	Costa Rica	Soils and Crops of Costa Rica	Agronomy	Randy Killorn Lee Burras	Spring, 2007
	Costa Rica	Integrated Management of Tropical Crops	Plant Pathology Entomology Horticulture	Mark Gleason Donald Lewis Gail Nonnecke	Spring, 2007
	Mexico	International Field Trips in Biology: Undergraduate Field Research Experience in Sonoran Desert of Baja	EEOB	John Nason	Spring, 2007
	Australia	Exploring New and Innovative Global Agriculture Practices in Australia	Ag Ed and Studies	Greg Miller	Summer, 2007
	China	Agricultural and Natural Resource Sustainability - Biorenewables/Agroforestry - Agricultural and Rural Entrepreneurship - Chinese Agricultural Products from Field to Table	Economics	Richard Schultz Robert Jolly Denise Bjelland Difei Shen	Summer, 2007
	Costa Rica	Ecological and Food Systems Interaction in Costa Rica	NREM/FSHN	Jim Pease Cheryll Reitmeier	Summer, 2007
	Europe	Technology Trip in Europe	ABE	Melody Carrol	Summer, 2007
	Ghana	Exploring Ecosystems Exploitation, Degradation and its Restitution in Southern and Northern Ghana	Agronomy	Andrew Manu Elvin Hasselman	Summer, 2007
	India	Intergrated Agriculture and Food Systems: Improving Rural Livelihoods	FSHN	Grace Marquis Gail Nonnecke Manju Reddy	Summer, 2007
	Panama	Tropical Agricultural Production, International Business, and Trade in Panama	Agronomy/Economics	Russ Mullen Ebby Luvaga	Summer, 2007
	Tanzania	Natural history of the Serengeti and surrounding ecosystems, plus it blends in exposure to the local culture and agriculture	Biology	Marlin Rice	Summer, 2007
	Uganda	Creating a School Garden (Service Learning)	Horticulture Agronomy Global Ag Programs	Gail Nonnecke Lee Burras Shelley Taylor	Summer, 2007
	Ukraine	Agricultural Production, Processing, and Marketing in Ukraine	Agronomy Animal Science Horticulture Veterinary Medicine	Dick Gladon Jodi Cornell	Summer, 2007

Upcoming Exchanges

	Country	Partner	City	Term
	Australia	La Trobe University	Melbourne	All 2007
	Austria	University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences	Vienne	All 2007
	Austria	Karl Franzens University (graduate students only)	Graz	All 2007
	Belgium	Gent University (graduate students only)	Gent	All 2007
	Brazil	Federal Rural University of Pernambuco	Recife	All 2007
	Brazil	Federal University of Vicosa	Vicosa	All 2007
	Brazil	Federal University of Vicosa (ABE students only)	Vicosa	All 2007
	Canada	Nova Scotia Agricultural College	Truro	All 2007
	Canada	The Marine Institute of MUN	St. John's, Newfoundland	All 2007
	Costa Rica	University of Costa Rica	San Jose	All 2007
	England	Royal Agricultural College	Cirencester	All 2007
	France	Superior Institute of Agriculture (ISAB)	Beauvais	All 2007
	France	National Polytechnical Institute of Toulouse (graduate students only)	Toulouse	All 2007
	Germany	Humboldt University	Berlin	All 2007
	Germany	Hohenheim University	Stuttgart	All 2007
	Ireland	University College Cork	Cork	All 2007
	Ireland	University College Dublin (ABE students only)	Dublin	All 2007
	Mexico	Autonomous University of Mexico	Baja, California	All 2007
	Mexico	Agriculture Technical Institute of Oaxaca	Oaxaca	All 2007
	Ukraine	Lviv State Agricultural University	Lviv	All 2007

International Internships
The Borlaug Summer Internship Program is intended to provide undergraduate students exciting reserach, community or field experiences in an international setting - experiencing first had some of the many factors and issues involved in international development and food production. The application deadline is January 20. The program is administered by Global Agricultural Programs. For more details and application information, contact Shelley Taylor, sztaylor@iastate.edu.

International Agricultural Internship Program (IAIP) provides an opportunity for senior and graduate level college and university students to work in overseas offices to promote U.S. agricultural interests. The USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service, one of the U.S. 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. U.S. 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. The Summer, 2007 application deadline is January 9, 2007. For more information, please contact Shelley Taylor, sztaylor@iastate.edu