Tag: Mills Scholarships
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Mills Scholarship recipient Dallas Williams studies rain garden best practices
Dallas Williams receiving second place and the People’s Choice Award in the doctoral division at the Three Minute Thesis Finals competition. Photo courtesy of the Texas A&M University Department of Soil and Crop Sciences Could using alternative materials for rain gardens make them more efficient and sustainable? Dallas Williams, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of…
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Mills Scholarships awarded to five Texas A&M students
2024-25 Mills Scholarships recipients (left to right, top row) Christopher Cobos, Shubham Jain, Madan Sapkota, (bottom row) Mingxiu Wang and Veronica Zancho. The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) has awarded 2024-25 Mills Scholarships to five graduate students conducting water-related research at Texas A&M University. The scholarship recipients are: TWRI administers the Mills Scholars Program, an annual competitive scholarship program supporting graduate research in…
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Mills Scholarship recipient studies harmful algae blooms
Article originally written by Madison Pigg Crista Kieley, a graduate student in the Department of Marine Biology at Texas A&M University, researches the complex forces driving cyanobacterial blooms in warm monomictic lakes, which overturn only once a year. She focused her graduate research on these harmful blooms, a growing area of study, in the south-central…
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Request for Pre-Proposals: 2021–2022 TWRI Graduate Student Research Programs
The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) is happy to announce its call for pre-proposals for students conducting water resources research. The TWRI Graduate Student Research Program has funds available for graduate students at Texas universities through two programs, the TWRI Mills Scholarship Program (available to Texas A&M College Station, Galveston and Qatar only) and the U.S. Geological Survey Graduate Research Program (available to…
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Mills Scholarships awarded to six Texas A&M students
Top row (left to right): Anya Allen, Kathleen Costello, Taylor Jordan. Bottom row: Dorothea Mildenberger, Chiranjibi Poudyal, Xiaolei Xu. The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) has awarded 2023-24 Mills Scholarships to six graduate students conducting water-related research at Texas A&M University. The scholarship recipients are: TWRI administers the Mills Scholars Program, an annual competitive scholarship program supporting graduate research in water at Texas A&M…
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TWRI seeking proposals for USGS and Mills Scholarships
The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) is calling for proposals for students conducting water resources research. The deadline for proposal submissions is 11:59 p.m. CST on March 27, 2022. TWRI has funds available for graduate students at Texas universities through two programs, the TWRI Mills Scholarship Program (available to Texas A&M University College Station, Galveston and Qatar only) and…
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Soaking up rising floodwaters in growing cities
Article originally written by Chantal Cough-Schulze Texas cities are expanding fast. Between 2010 and 2019, six of the 15 fastest-growing cities in the United States were in Texas. Bigger cities mean less land to soak up rainwater, leading to increased flood risk. Add climate change to the equation, and you have a bigger flooding problem…
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ICYMI: Mills Scholars spotlight, scholarship recipients announced
In January, we spotlighted our Mills Scholars Program, which awards at least four $5,000 scholarships to graduate students who are pursuing research in water-related studies at Texas A&M University, Texas A&M–Galveston and Texas A&M–Qatar. The scholarships have been awarded for the past five decades by the W.G. Mills Memorial Fellowships in Hydrology, established in 1967 by…
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Mills Scholarship awarded to four TAMU students
Article originally written by Kathy Wythe 2020 Mills Scholarship recipients, left to right, Amanda Goldsmith, Alexander Kiser, Rebecca Owens, and Matthew Stellbauer. The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) has awarded 2020 Mills Scholarships to four graduate students conducting water-related research at Texas A&M University. The scholarship winners are: TWRI administers the Mills Scholars Program, an annual competitive scholarship program supporting…
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TWRI seeking pre-proposals for USGS and Mills Scholarships
The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) announced its call for pre-proposals for students conducting water resources research. The deadline for pre-proposal submissions is Nov. 28, 2018. TWRI has funds available for graduate students at Texas universities through two programs, the TWRI Mills Scholarship Program (available to Texas A&M University College Station, Galveston and Qatar only) and the U.S.…
