Back to news
27 Jun 2017 | News

ICIMOD Hosts a Borlaug – Ruan Intern Sponsored by the World Food Prize, USA for the Fourth Time in a Row

0 mins Read

70% Complete

AN ALL-EXPENSE-PAID, EIGHT-WEEK HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE, the prestigious Borlaug-Ruan International Internship provides exceptional high school students the opportunity to work with world renowned scientists and policymakers at leading research centers in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. ICIMOD has been hosting a Borlaug-Ruan intern since 2013. This year, Ms Isabella Culotta of Ithaca, New York will join us for two months to work on gender and equity aspects of solar pumps for irrigation.

Stay current

Stay up to date on what’s happening around the HKH with our most recent publications and find out how you can help by subscribing to our mailing list.

Sign Up

Related content

Continue exploring this topic

16 Aug 2017 News
Strengthening Cooperation with Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The MoU was signed in Thimphu in the presences of officials from BCCI, colleagues from ICIMOD, private sector organizations, and ...

28 Dec 2018 News
ICIMOD receives Global Outstanding Achievement Award 2018

The Transboundary Landscape Programme facilitates cooperation based on shared ecosystems between countries and has fostered partnerships with over 55 government ...

10 Apr 2015 Atmosphere Initiative
NEC Secretary visits ICIMOD

Secretary of the National Environment Commission (NEC) of Bhutan, Dasho Ugyen Tshewang, visited the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) headquarters on ...

30 Mar 2018 REDD+
Governance study of Community-Based Forest Management Systems (CBFMS) completed in Myanmar

Dr Tek Maraseni from the University of Southern Queensland, along with Griffith University in Australia and the Institute for Global ...

8 Mar 2015 News
The Unresolved Equation

As we were schooling and grooming ourselves to become career women, the issues of ...

25 Mar 2019 Geospatial solutions
Hand in hand for global biodiversity data sharing

The 2018 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Asia Regional Nodes Meeting was held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 17 to 18 ...

29 Jun 2022 News
Koshi resource book focusing on ecosystems, water management, and governance launched

We recently launched a resource book – The Koshi River Basin: Insights into biophysical, socioeconomic, and governance ...

15 Nov 2017 News
Regional Hands-on Training on Community Based Flood Early Warning System (CBFEWS)

A five-day course in September 2017 was designed to enhance the capacity of participants to install and use community-based flood ...