NC State’s Office of Global Engagement announced the 2021-2020 Internationalization Seed Grant awardees on April 16, 2021.   These grants are offered on an annual basis and provide up to $5,000 to “help promote international partnerships and foster global scholarship and engagement.”

Four CALS Faculty were selected to receive the Internationalization Seed Funding and one CALS faculty was selected to receive the Israel Visiting Scholar Program funding.

CALS Faculty Awardees:

Internationalization Seed Grant

Miguel Castillo, Associate Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

• “Machine Learning Coupled with Near Infrared Spectroscopy for Development of Rapid Analyses of Constituents in Cacao (Theobroma cacao) Plants: Development of a Country Database and Testing System”

Maru Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

• “Spain: Exploring Family & Culture on the Camino de Santiago”

Danesha Seth Carley, Associate Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

• “Building Regulatory Capacity and Educational Opportunities though Workshop Engagement”

Shweta Trivedi, VetPAC Director/Teaching Associate Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

• “Recruiting and Training Underrepresented Minority (URM) Students for local and global Southern White Rhino Gut Microbiome Research”

Israel Visiting Scholar Program

Sierra Young, Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

• “Benchmarking transfer learning techniques to advance deep learning applications in global precision agriculture: An Israel-US partnership”