Fritz selected as Borlaug Scholar by National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB)

2018 May 16

Katelyn Fritz was selected as a Borlaug Scholar by the National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB).

Students selected for the undergraduate award are attending universities in the United States who are in upper level undergraduate programs in a plant breeding related program and are seeking to further their education following their initial degree. The honor is presented at the NAPB Annual Meeting.

"Borlaug increased yield and got calories to everyone," said Fritz. "I want to leverage breeding to make those calories more nutricious." A former Borlaug intern, Fritz spent the summer interning with Semilla Nueva in Guatemala studying biofortification of rice. In addition, she is the Students of Agronomy, Soils and Environmental Science national president. She works for Dr. Mark Gleason's lab working with genetic diversity of a fungus.

The Borlaug Scholars program is established by the NAPB and funded through the Agronomic Science Foundation (ASF) to develop the plant breeding science professions by strengthening the next generation of leaders.