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Amanda Crandall
- biology
- Class of 2017
- Vienna, VA
Vienna's Crandall receives scholarship from NOAA
2015 Aug 3
Amanda Crandall, a junior from Vienna, has received an Ernest F. Hollings scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Crandall is majoring in biology with a concentration in environmental science and ecology.
The scholarship provides two years of tuition at JMU plus a 10-week paid summer internship in 2016.
The Hollings scholarship program is designed to:
- increase undergraduate training in oceanic and atmospheric science, research, technology, and education and foster multidisciplinary training opportunities;
- increase public understanding and support for stewardship of the ocean and atmosphere and improve environmental literacy;
- recruit and prepare students for public service careers with NOAA and other natural resource and science agencies at the federal, state and local levels of government; and
- recruit and prepare students for careers as teachers and educators in oceanic and atmospheric science and to improve scientific and environmental education in the United States.