| NEA 2021 Interns |
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| Anthony Barraco |
| Cornell University |
| Establishing international hemp fiber phenotyping protocols and optimizing hemp germplasm curatorial techniques. |
| Skills acquired: hemp horticultural techniques, fiber analysis, DEI and outreach, controlled environment agriculture, |
| Allison Chhay |
| Cornell University |
| Measuring the impacts of the USDA-ARS PGRU (Geneva, NY) Clonal and Vegetable crop collections |
| Skills acquired: Statistics in R, SQL, Umbraco, horticulture, and germplasm |
| Taylor Coburn |
| Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
| Investigating dihydrochalcones in apple |
| Skills acquired: liquid chromatography, statistics in R, DNA isolation and PCR, and germplasm |
| Johanna Kiegler |
| Cornell University |
| Iron bioavailability in maize |
| Skills acquired: chemistry, genetics, breeding, agronomy, nutritional improvement |
| Kayla Pasteur |
| Pheromone trapping for striped cucumber beetles |
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USDA-ARS Invasive Insect Biocontrol & Behavior Laboratory: Beltsville, MD |
| Meredith Ryan |
| Yale University |
| Dihydrochalcones and apple russeting |
| Skills acquired: liquid chromatography, statistics in R, RNA isolation, horticulture, and germplasm |
