Six ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder students will receive Center for Education and Career Transition Scholarship for the fall 2000 semester.
The $600 scholarship is awarded to three categories of students, including undergraduate women, graduate women, and a student 30 years or older. To receive the undergraduate and graduate scholarship awards, students must maintain a 3.5 grade-point average. Applicants for the student over 30 award must maintain a minimum grade-point average of 3.0.
The graduate award was given to Cecilia A. Valenzuela who is seeking a masterÂ’s degree in bilingual/English as a second language education and has maintained a 3.8 grade-point average. It was also awarded to Tawnya Laveta, who is seeking a masterÂ’s degree in elementary education and has maintained 3.9 grade-point average.
The student over 30 award was granted to Nancy L. Brown, a graduate student seeking a doctorate in modern European Holocaust history, who has maintained a 3.8 grade-point average.
Elizabeth Flora, a senior majoring in English literature, was awarded the $600 undergraduate scholarship. She has maintained a 3.8 grade-point average and plans to become a project manager.
Senior Heather Avens and sophomore Cara C. Seelinger are the two recipients at the undergraduate level to receive $300 each. Avens is majoring in biochemistry and molecular, cellular and developmental biology and has maintained a 3.95 grade-point average. She hopes to become a pharmacological researcher. Seelinger, an environmental, population and organismic biology major, has maintained a 4.0 grade-point average and plans to become a doctor.
The scholarships are awarded based on the applicantÂ’s biographical statement, grade-point average and academic financial needs. In addition, all applicants must be full-time students during the semester of the scholarship award and must have completed a minimum of 12 credit hours of course work on the Boulder campus.
Applications for the Center for Education and Career Transition Scholarship for spring 2000 are available at Counseling Services in room 134 of the Willard Administrative Center. The deadline to apply is Oct. 1. For more information contact Sharon Campbell or Doris Olsen at (303) 492-6766.