Two Iowa State graduate students receive Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research fellowships

he Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) Fellows Program selected two Iowa State graduate students for its 2023 cohort. Oluwatuyi Olowoyeye, doctoral student in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, and Erika Ibarra-Garibay, doctoral student in Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, are the first students from Iowa State to be selected for this fellowship.

Created in 2018, the FFAR Fellows Program is a three-year program that provides doctoral students studying food and agriculture sciences with training, professional development, and opportunities to engage with industry and government leaders. Olowoyeye and Ibarra-Garibay are two of just 30 fellows in this year’s cohort.