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2012 World Food Prize Youth InstituteStudents have the chance to attend the Nebraska Youth Institute at UNL’s College of Agriculture, Science, and Natural Resources this September. Of these students, six will be awarded Dr. Hank Beachell Fellowships and be chosen to attend the Global Youth Institute in Des Moines, Iowa in October with their mentor / teacher. The winners will be chosen based on their submitted essay Cultivating Innovations to Feed the World. Become eligible for the prestigious Borlaug-Ruan International Internship or USDA Wallace-Carver Internship! Apply Now for 2012More information for the 2012 Nebraska World Food Prize Youth Institute and the Hank Beachell Fellows can be found at the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Each officially registered student is asked to prepare an essay under the supervision of his or her teacher. The student is then eligible to attend the Nebraska Youth Institute. A school may submit up to five papers. Deadline for papers June 1, 2012. Applications, essay requirements, and contact information are available on UNL’s IANR page. The Malaika Foundation, the World Food Prize Foundation, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources and the student group, Beyond Borders, are partners for the Hank Beachell Fellows Program. |
 
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2011 Hank Beachell Fellows
Six Nebraska Hank Beachell Fellows attended the 2011 Global Youth Institute at the Normal E. Borlaug International Symposium, Des Moines, Iowa, October 13-15, 2011. Agricultural experts, Dignitaries, and Activists traveled from 75 countries to take part in World Food Prize discussion. Our Nebraska students were chosen based on their essays on “The Millennium Goals: Agriculture to Trade ” and were among 130 students from 24 states and four foreign nations.
The students participated in sessions featuring Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – former President of Brazil, Howard G. Buffet, CEOs of ADM, Deere & Co., Monsanto, Dupont, Novozymes, and Syngenta, and the Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme.
2011 Nebraska Hank Beachell Delegates and Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President of Nigeria
Borlaug-Ruan Internship
Joe-Ann Moser is the first Nebraskan ever to receive a Borlaug-Ruan Internship. Joe-Ann is now a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania. She was a 2008 Hank Beachell Fellow and an intern at The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi, Kenya in 2009.
All Hank Beachell Fellows are eligible to apply for the prestigious Borlaug-Ruan International Internship that provides an all-expenses-paid, eight-week hands-on experience, working with world-renowned scientists and policymakers at leading research centers in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
Hank Beachell Fellowship Information: www.worldfoodprize.org and www.ianr.unl.edu./wfp
