Plant Biology Graduate student Mara Sanders selected to participate in the 2017 Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security at Purdue University. The institute is a 2 week long program bringing together 40 graduate students from US Institutions interested in developing a holistic understanding of the conceptual challenges around global food security. This introduction to global food security provides students with a working knowledge of these issues, with a focus on cross-disciplinary problem solving of real-world development challenges.
![Mara Sanders, Jay Weeks, Anna Waller and Dr. Gebisa Ejeta. Back row: Cheryl Williams, Gabriel Abdulai, and Alecia Evans.](http://sites.rutgers.edu/newuseag/wp-content/uploads/sites/485/2020/06/small-liberia-group-300x200-1.jpg)