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NSCS-GEICO Graduate Scholarship

NSCS opportunities don't disappear after graduation! NSCS has partnered with GEICO to offer four $5000 scholarships annually to deserving, talented, and motivated NSCS members who are continuing their education.

Eligibility

  • Must have a 3.4 G.P.A
  • Must be attending an accredited University
  • Must have a resume in the NSCS ScholarJobs database
  • You must be accepted into and entering a graduate program this fall 2009
  • Students enrolling in professional programs such as medical school or law school are also eligible to apply.
  • NSCS members currently in a graduate program are also eligible
  • Please note, all scholarships will be disbursed directly to the graduate program.

2010 Key Dates

Application Opens: April 1, 2010
Application Closes: May 30, 2010
Notification Date: August 2010

 2009  Recipients:

NSCS would like to thank everyone who applied for the GEICO Graduate Scholarship 2009. This is one of our most competitive scholarships because of the excellent graduate-level applications we receive, which makes our decision a very difficult one. All applications went through three rounds of rigorous review. In the end these four recipients stood out.

Congratulations to:

Alexander John Flowers

Alex is  a Chicago native and graduated from Saint Xavier University in 2004 with a B.S in Biology and minor in Chemistry.  Currently, He is attending graduate school at Roosevelt University and earning a M.S degree in Biotechnology & Chemical Sciences spring 2010.

In 2002, Alex founded a chapter of the NSCS at Saint Xavier University with his wife, Qisoundra Bullock ’04 B.A and ’11 J.D. Southern University Law Center, several awesome friends, and two great advisors. In 2009, he established a second NSCS chapter at Roosevelt University Schaumburg Campus with four colleagues and three academic mentors. After college, Alex was awarded a two-year position 2005-2007 in the Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Scholars Program at the University of Chicago in the Department of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology.

Alex’s goal is to earn his PharmD/PhD in Pharmacogenomics, become an oncologist/infectious disease research pharmacist; in addition, become a minister and fulfill his grandfather’s dream by establishing an elementary school and senior housing for First Greater Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church, continuing to serve in the community, and leaving a legacy.  

 

Erica Behrens

Erica is currently a first-year graduate student at Illinois State University in the Clinical-Counseling Psychology Program. Originally from Minnesota, she attended Winona State University for her undergraduate degree in Psychology. As an undergraduate Erica was president of her NSCS chapter and was a member of Psi Chi and the Psychology Club in addition to being a consistent member of the university’s Dean’s List.

Currently at Illinois State University Erica is a full-time student and has a graduate assistantship at a community mental health agency. After completing her graduate degree Erica hopes to work as a counselor/therapist in a community agency.

 

 

 

Erin Hafkenschiel

Erin grew up in Sacramento, CA, and attended the Thacher School, in Ojai, CA for high school. After graduating she headed back to northern California and went to UC Berkeley for college where she played lacrosse and majored in Political Economies of Industrialized Societies, with a concentration in Urban Planning in Developing Countries. After studying Chinese in high school Erin was extremely interested in China, but through most of high school and college was focused on the country’s economic and political development.  As the daughter of an architect, however, the more Erin learned about Chinese economics, politics and sociology the more inter-connected it seemed to urban planning and the built representation of China’s development.

After graduating from CAL, Erin worked at the Hewlett Foundation in their Environment Program, where she worked with grantees related to conservation work in the Western United States and Canada and sustainable urbanization work in China. In the fall of 2008, Erin moved to China as a Fulbright grantee to work with the Energy Foundation (a Hewlett grantee) on sustainable urbanization in China. She spent the second-half of the year in Jinan, China (a smaller Chinese city of 5 million people), working directly with a local university and transportation company on transit-oriented development projects. Erin is now a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School, pursuing a degree in public policy and urban planning. After graduating, she hopes to continue to work on sustainable urbanization work in China.

Rebecca White

Rebecca White was born in Alabama and raised in Pennsylvania, the Netherlands and Connecticut. Today, she is happy to call Washington, DC home. As an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, Rebecca studied Marketing and Anthropology. Her interest in these two fields and the ways in which they interact led her to spend a semester studying multiculturalism and social change in Cape Town, South Africa and a summer working with the National Geographic Society as a marketing services intern.

Since graduation, Rebecca has held professional positions as the research associate for economic development at the Downtown DC Business Improvement District and as the marketing and business development services consultant for a responsible tourism firm in Rwanda. She is currently enrolled at Georgetown University where she is pursuing a Master of Science in Foreign Service with a concentration in International Development. Rebecca enjoys yoga and hiking and hopes to continue working in economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa after finishing her studies.

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