Each year, the Gloria Barron Scholarship is made available to qualified graduate students. This scholarship was established by Tom Barron, a TWS Governing Council member in honor of his mother Gloria Barron, dedicated educator and tireless advocate for wilderness protection. The scholarship is managed by TWS Research Department. We award a $10,000 scholarship to a graduate student for the coming academic year to support research and preparation of a paper on an aspect of wilderness. We strongly encourage proposals relating to climate change, as well as other topics regarding wilderness conservation. Additional funding is provided to pay for travel expenses for the recipient to work with staff members of TWS on his or her project. We encourage the publication of their work in an academic journal or other appropriate medium and provide additional funds to help cover expenses of publishing and publicizing their final paper.
The scholarship seeks to encourage individuals who have the potential to make a significant positive difference in the long term protection of wilderness in North America. In the past, individuals like Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson have made that kind of lasting difference. They possessed all the skills needed to excel in their respective professions, but they also possessed something more: the courage and the vision to think afresh about how and why to protect our wild lands and the ability to communicate those ideas effectively to others.
If you know of anyone who might be interested in this scholarship, kindly direct them to this link for application guidelines: (http://wilderness.org/content/gloria-barron-scholarship-guidelines). Deadline for submission is March 31, 2011.
Michelle Haefele, Ph.D.
Economist
1660 Wynkoop St. Suite 850
Denver CO 80202
(303) 650-5818 ext. 109
