The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the 2009 USDA Public Service Leaders Scholarship Program! This program provides combined scholarship and internship opportunities to college and university students leading to permanent employment with USDA upon completion of their degree. Students selected into the program will receive:
* Full-tuition scholarship
* Paid internship leading to permanent employment
* Employee benefits, mentoring, career development, and leadership training and use of a personal computer
Upon graduation, scholarship recipients become permanent employees of the USDA and must be prepared to work for USDA for one year for each year of educational assistance received. For more information and a listing of available scholarships, please visit http://www.hsi. usda.gov.
If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to start requesting official documents such as transcripts and letters of rec ommendation as these documents generally take the most time to process. The application deadline is April 27, 2009.
Please forward this information to any students or groups that may be interested. If you have any questions, please contact Sandra Cortez, USDA HSI National Student Program Manager, at (210) 486-3959 or Sandra.cortez@ ars.usda. gov.
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