TWRI awards Mills Scholarships to graduate students
COLLEGE STATION –The Texas Water Resources Institute recently awarded Mills Scholarships to 13 Texas A&M University graduate students for the 2006-07 academic year to pursue water-related research.
TWRI’s Mills Scholars Program, an endowed fund that supports research in water conservation and management, provided the $1,500 scholarships to the students to use for education-related expenses. The scholarship program supports graduate students in diverse water research programs at Texas A&M University.
Students receiving the scholarships and their departments include: Kendra Johnson, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering; Vanessa Kelly, Jeremy Rice and Nick Russo III, Water Management and Hydrologic Sciences; Trevor Knight, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences; Meredith Langille, Oke Nwaneshiudu and Sucheta Parkhi, Department of Civil Engineering; Anna Marie Nordfelt, Department of Geography; Lisa Prcin, Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management; Ronnie Schnell, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences; Kati Stoddard, Department of Agricultural Economics; Zach Vernon, Department of Forest Science.
Mills Cox, a former chairman of the Texas Water Development Board, endowed the Mills Scholarships.
For more information on the Mill’s Scholarship program or to learn more about the projects, contact the Texas Water Resources Institute at (979)845-1851 or twri@tamu.edu.
