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Six graduate students complete summer fellowships in homeland security sector
Six graduate students have completed summer fellowships with high level agencies and laboratories within the homeland security sector.
Funding for the internships was provided by the FAZD Center, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation and private donors.
Principal investigators Dr. H. Morgan Scott and Dr. Gale Wagner coordinated the effort.
- Amy Pohl interned at NORTHCOM in Colorado Springs, evaluated education and research topics that are important to the Surgeon General and NORTHCOM.
- Lindsay Holmstrom, a 2006 DHS Fellow, interned at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, where she participated in the development of a model for animal disease impact assessment.
- Jennie Finks worked with the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on foreign animal and zoonotic disease control programs in Mexico and Central America.
- Melinda Hergert designed a public health program on rabies while working in South Africa.
- Amy Delgado worked with Defra in the United Kingdom on food animal diseases that impact trade..
- Heather Engleking interned with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and Agricultural Research Service.