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In the News!

McNair Scholars - both current UVM students and our McNair alumni - are out and about doing amazing things! Check this page on a regular basis to see who's doing what and where.

• McNair Scholars Will Present Wide-Ranging Student Research Aug. 9 - Article in The View announcing the annual McNair Symposium for the public presentation of summer research.
• World Bank Grants Hope - Link to a June 1, 2007 press release and ABC Television newscast featuring 22 winners of World Bank Development Marketplace grants. From an original field of 3,000 applicants, UVM McNair alum Abraham Awolich was awarded $200,000 as the co-founder of the New Sudan Education Initiative (NESEI), a non-profit formed to build high schools in civil war-torn southern Sudan.
• Scholars Win Fulbright, Truman, Goldwater, Madison Awards - April 18, 2007 article in The View including McNair Scholar Kesha Ram. She was selected as a 2007 Truman Scholar in a highly competitive and prestigious national competition which awards recipients $30,000 for graduate study in public service fields.
• Make Lessons, Not War - March 1, 2007 article in The View featuring McNair Scholar and UVM alumnus Abraham Awolich.
• Pushing Recycled Paper - April 25, 2006 article in The View featuring McNair Scholar Natalia Fajardo.
• McNair Scholar Picked to Present Research in NYC - April 11, 2006 article in The View featuring McNair Scholar Natalia Fajardo.
• Students Win Prestigious Environmental Honor - April 5, 2006 article in The View featuring McNair Scholar Kesha Ram.
• Cubicle Sabotage - September 21, 2005 article in The View about surveys seeking to understand the roots and reach of on-the-job vengeance. Features McNair Scholar Abraham Awolich and mentor David A. Jones, PhD.
• McNair Scholars Share Insight Into Research Topics - August 30, 2005 article in The View featuring McNair Scholars Anastasia Yarbrough and Natalia Fajardo, and their summer 2005 mentor, Dr. Allan Strong of the Rubenstein School.
• Students Selected for Global Leaders Summit at Yale - July 19, 2005 news feature on the UVM opening web page featuring McNair Scholar Daniel Aguek.
• Open House to Focus on Undergraduate Opportunities in Science - October 13, 2004 article in The View featuring numerous programs with opportunties for undergraduate student research, including the McNair Scholars Program.
• UVM Names Premier McNair Scholars - June 28, 2004 news feature on the UVM opening web page announcing the first McNair cohort.
• Because of Politics - April 16, 2004 feature in the UVM Notebook about Daniel Aguek's remarkable journey to the United States from Sudan

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The McNair Scholars Program is a federal Trio program funded through a grant from the US Department of Education.

Last modified October 08 2007 11:18 AM