Spring Meadow Nursery and the Horticultural Research Institute ( HRI ) announced the recipients of 2019 Spring Meadow - Proven Winners Endowment Fund scholarships .
Dale & Liz Deppe established the Spring Meadow - Proven Winners Endowment Fund with HRI in 1999 with the opinion that bright , well - trained , and qualified people are all important to the green industry and that back motivated scholar plays a life-sustaining role in protecting and growing the industry . Through HRI , the AmericanHort Foundation acts as the administrator of endowments that serve students to prevail the education necessary to successfully pursue horticultural calling .
“ Our team has been hallow by this diligence and the mentors who ’ve help oneself us along the direction . These scholarships represent our dedication to continue the encouragement of emerging professional , ” state Dale Deppe . “ We are pleased to be able to support these students in such a direct way . ”
gardening students Yufei Qian , Aaron Sledge , and William Lewis were each grant $ 3500 erudition for 2019 , take the total amount of awards pass out through the fund to over $ 70,000 . The students were chosen from a competitive national applicant puddle for their pedantic achievements , typic leading abilities , and commitment to pursue career in gardening .
Yufei Qian is a graduate student at the University of California - Davis where she quest after her cacoethes for plant . Yufei mention she has benefit from a serial of internships while at UC - Davis , including stints in UC ’s Teaching Nursery where she work on plant propagation of ornamental plant , and on two lab internships where she worked on plant life genetics and molecular level breeding . All of these experiences , Yufei says , are point her to a future career in woody industrial plant breeding .
Aaron Sledge just set out his junior year at Penn State University but is no alien to gardening . He has already completed internships in arboriculture , interior plantscaping , and conservatory and historic landscape painting management . He has also worked on - campus in the greenhouse , and as head propagator for the horticulture club . A well - rounded works yield student , Aaron is peculiarly interested in woody works extension . Aaron was also selected as an AmericanHort Scholar at the Cultivate ’ 18 group discussion .
presently an undergraduate student at Virginia Tech , William Lewis is lick toward a bachelor ’s degree in Environmental Horticulture . William has been work in his kinfolk ’s nursery since he was 14 year previous and hopes to take over the business in the future . Steadfastly committed to his kinfolk ’s business and to the horticulture industry , William charter the 2 - hour trip home from schooling , where he is a full - prison term student , to work out at the nursery each weekend .
A total of 32 Spring Meadow - Proven Winners endowed eruditeness have been grant to students since 2004 . Scholarship applications for 2020 will open in April 2019 . Individuals who are interested in applying for a scholarship cancheck the HRI websiteor contact Jennifer Gray , HRI Administrator , at ( 614 ) 884 - 1155 for more scholarship program details .
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