SWANA Announces 2021 Scholarship Winners
The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) has selected six students to receive $30,000 in scholarships through its Grant H. Flint Scholarship Program, Gershman Scholarship and the Robert P. Stearns/SCS Engineers Scholarship.
The number of awards increased in 2021 with the addition of the Harvey W. Gershman Scholarship.
The scholarship winners were drawn from a pool of 36 scholarship applications nominated to SWANA by chapters across the United States and Canada. Each student will receive a $5,000 scholarship for use in the coming academic year.
- Category I: Graduating high school seniors studying any subject
Abby Card, nominated by the Southern New England Chapter, attending the University of Connecticut to study nursing, sponsored by her father Brian Card |
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Mara Gerber, nominated by the Utah Beehive Chapter, attending Brigham Young University to study counseling, sponsored by her grandfather Dwayne Woolley |
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Isabella Riano, nominated by the New York Chapter, attending Cornell University to study government, sponsored by her mother Nancy Blanco |
- Category II: Undergraduate junior or senior pursuing a degree in a field related to solid waste management:
Jason Pang, a SWANA student member of the British Columbia – Yukon Pacific Chapter, attending the University of British Columbia with a major in Global Resource Systems |
- Harvey W. Gershman Scholarship, named for the co-founder of Gershman, Brickner & Bratton (GBB), and awarded to an undergraduate pursuing a degree in studies related to solid waste or resource management and intending to see employment in the field:
Victoria Chanez, a SWANA student member of the Wisconsin Badger Chapter attending the University of Wisconsin-Platteville with a major in Environmental Engineering |
- The Robert P. Stearns/SCS Engineers Scholarship, named for the co-founder of SCS Engineers, and awarded to a student entering or already enrolled in a graduate program and pursuing a degree in environmental science, engineering or other major related to solid waste management:
Mohsen Zafari, a SWANA student member of the Ontario Chapter, working on his PhD in Geo Environmental Engineering at Queen’s University (Kingston, ON) |
Each applicant was asked to include a short essay about some aspect of solid waste management. Several will appear as blogs at https://swana.org/news/blog.
For more information about the Grant H. Flint Scholarship Awards Program, visit https://swana.org/community/awards-scholarships/scholarships-internships