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Graduate Student General Fact Sheet NCR-SARE funds Graduate Student grants in Sustainable Agriculture for projects that address sustainable agriculture issues and are part of the student's degree program. NCR-SARE instituted the Graduate Student grant program in 2002 for officially registered graduate students (Masters and Ph.D.) enrolled at accredited colleges or universities. Projects must benefit agriculture in the North Central Region of the U.S. Fifty-states. Six grants have been funded to date, for a total of $542,625. NCR-SARE awards grant funds for grad student projects up to $10,000, and projects may last up to three years. A candidate may receive only one NCR-SARE Graduate Student award during her or his graduate student career. Roughly $150,000 in funding will be available in 2006, and NCR-SARE expects to award about 16 grants. The Graduate Student Review Committee evaluates proposals for their technical merit and relevancy. The Committee forwards its recommendations to the NCR-SARE Administrative Council, which makes the award selections. Funded proposals have contributed to farmer or rancher profitability, environmental quality, and the enhancement of the quality of life of farmers or ranchers, rural communities, and society as a whole. NCR-SARE strongly encourages students to involve farmers and ranchers in their Graduate Student Grant projects. Annual Grant-Making Timeline NCR-SARE usually issues a Call for Proposals in the fall, and Graduate Student Grant proposals are due in January. Usually, the Council announces the awards in the spring, and notifies recipients shortly thereafter. Funds are typically available in the fall. We make slight revisions to our calls for proposals each year, which means it is crucial for our readers to only have access to the most recent call for proposals. To ensure that our information is accurate, we remove the old calls as soon as the deadlines have passed in order to avoid confusion. 2008 Graduate Student Projects Recommended for Funding
Personal Contact A unique aspect of NCR-SARE is our personal contact with graduate students involved in the program. Bill Wilcke is our Graduate Student Program Coordinator. Feel free to contact Bill at 612-625-8205 or to email him at wilck001@umn.edu. If you would like to be notified of the Call for Proposals, please contact the NCR-SARE office at 402-472-7081 or e-mail NCR-SARE at ncrsare@unl.edu.
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NCR-SARE Graduate Student Program Fact Sheet