U.S-Costa Rica Course: A Trainingship Program in Tropical Plant Pathology

这个美洲项目奖是由美国国家科学基金会和美国农业部（USDA）联合资助的，目的是在2007年春季哥斯达黎加大学开设一门关于热带植物拓扑和病理学的课程。该课程由北卡罗来纳州立大学的Jean Beagle Ristaino博士和她的同事哥斯达黎加大学的Luis Gomez博士、Arturo Brenes博士和Roberto Valverde博士组织。它将包括来自美国和哥斯达黎加的研究生和讲师。组织者计划于2007年2月在罗利举行为期1天的研讨会，然后在春假期间前往哥斯达黎加进行为期9天的热带实地考察课程。此外，学生们将参观该国的咖啡、香蕉、菠萝、热带水果、甘蔗和蔬菜农场，并了解发展中国家农民面临的疾病、社会和政治问题。

This Americas Program award is jointly supported by NSF and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop a course on the topic of tropical plant topology & pathology at the University of Costa Rica in the spring of 2007. The course is organized by Dr. Jean Beagle Ristaino of North Carolina State University and her colleagues, Dr. Luis Gomez, Arturo Brenes, and Roberto Valverde, at the University of Costa Rica. It will involve graduate students and lecturers from the US and Costa Rica. The organizers plan to hold a 1-day symposium in Raleigh in February 2007 prior to taking a 9-day trip to Costa Rica during spring break for the tropical field class. In addition, students will tour coffee, banana, pineapple, tropical fruit, sugarcane, and vegetable farms in the country and learn about disease, social and political issues facing farmers in the developing world.