College students interested in careers as extension agents have the opportunity to experience agriculture, 4-H and family and consumer sciences programming through the Cooperative ExtensionService s 10-week, paid summer internship.
Chloe Benton, who graduated from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, has been named a 2022 GEM Ph.D. Engineering and Science Fellow by the National GEM Consortium. She is an intern with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Benton will begin her doctoral studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the fall. Her fellowship will include a first-year stipend, additional funding from her graduate institution and full tuition and fees up to the fifth year of the Ph.D. program. The National GEM Consortium, one of the nation’s most competitive fellowship programs for graduate study in the STEM fields, has a mission to increase the participation of underrepresented groups at all levels of graduate study in engineering and science.