International Students and Visitors

Kristine Pascual, 2017 Borlaug Fellow and Senior Research Specialist at the Philippine Rice Research Institute, the Philippines, is working with Dr. Rattan Lal (School of Environment and Natural Resources) on a project entitled “Climate Smart Agriculture: Research wetting-dry production systems to sustain rice yield and reduce methane emissions through improved water and nutrient management”.

Nataliia Didenko, Research Scientist in the Institute of Water Problems and Land Recelmation in Ukraine, completed her USDA Borlaug Fellowship at Ohio State South Centers in Piketon, OH from August - November, 2016 with Dr. Rafiq Islam, Research Scientist and Program Leader in the CFAES Soil and Bioenergy Program. She studied the effects of irrigation on soil quality and structure.

Lilian Gichuru, a 2015 Borlaug Fellow from the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization in Nairobi, Kenya, is researching genetic resistance to maize lethal necrosis (MLN) at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (April, 2015)

Kairat Tabynov, a senior researcher from the Research Institute for Biological Safety Problems in Gvardeiskiy City, Kazakhstan, completed a 3 month Borlaug Fellowship with Dr. Aradhya Gourapura of Ohio State's Food Animal Health Research Program from Sept-Dec, 2015. 

Irene Kargbo is a current Ph.D. student with Dr. Luis Canas in the Department of Entomoloy. She is an entomologist with the Central Agricultural Research Institute in Monrovia, Liberia, and has a research interest in developing bio-control strategies for managing crop pests.