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Jennifer Maguder
  • environmental sciences
  • Class of 2015
  • West Seneca, N.Y.

Jennifer MaGuder Awarded Science Scholarship at Paul Smith's College

2012 Sep 10

Jennifer MaGuder of West Seneca, N.Y., has been awarded a scholarship to Paul Smith's College funded with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

MaGuder, a first-year student who is majoring in environmental studies, received one of four scholarships given under the college's new Enhancing Ecological Education Scholarship Program (E3SP).

Paul Smith's used a $530,000 NSF grant to establish the scholarship, which provides recipients up to $40,000 each over four years. The grant was awarded earlier this year through an NSF program aimed at helping students pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Students in the program will work side-by-side with a Paul Smith's faculty member on an intensive research project, spending about 8 hours a week in a research lab; they will also be mentored by other students in the program. Scholarship recipients will develop their own research questions and experiments with the intent of contributing to their respective fields.

"This is the most exciting part of E3SP - undergraduate students working together in an ecology lab preparing for their own careers as ecologists," said Prof. Jorie Favreau, the program's director.

This is the first semester that Paul Smith's has awarded the scholarships. To be eligible for one of the E3SP scholarships, students must have a GPA of at least 3.0, demonstrate financial need and be accepted or enrolled at Paul Smith's in the fisheries and wildlife science or environmental science majors. Eventually, up to 14 students at a time will benefit from the program. The grant will last through the 2016-17 academic year.

For more information on the scholarship: www.paulsmiths.edu/stem.

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