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A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student, Helen Leavenworth of Mount Horeb, will receive the first 2011 Soil and Water Conservation Scholarship at the Agronomy, Crop and Soil Science Societies of America international annual meetings next week in San Antonio, Texas.
Leavenworth, who is majoring in soil science with a minor in international resource management, will receive a one-year $3,000 grant. An additional $500 will go to her research adviser, Robert Michitsch, who will donate it to the UWSP Soil and Waste Conservation Society (SWCS) and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) student chapters.
The scholarship, sponsored by the Soil Science Society of America, Division S-06, and the Agronomy Science Foundation, was initiated as a way to bring back into focus the vital necessity and passion for the discipline by encouraging current undergraduate and graduate students to consider a career in soil and water conservation.
“Helen is the epitome of a very well-rounded person, student and young professional,” said Michitsch. “Knowing that her goal is to work in the field of soil and water conservation, she has the tools that will benefit any position she pursues. I expect great things from her in the future.”
Leavenworth is a soil science major with a minor in international resource management. She was selected as the College of Natural Resources Outstanding Soil and Waste Resources Student Award for the 2010-11 academic year. She currently serves as a project leader for the UWSP chapter of the SWCS and SSSA, and has presented research projects in the CNR research symposium for the last two years.
