The Office of Scholar Development has awarded six WKU students a total of $12,000 in Lifetime Experience Grants in the 2015-16 academic year, including to one Russellvillian.

Jason Fox, a music and geography/environmental studies major from Russellville, will complete a research internship on climate, tourism and music in Iceland.

The awards are designed to enhance students’ competitiveness for national scholarships by supporting research, creative activities, international study, student-designed service or other scholarly activities. As a condition of their awards, recipients of LTE grants apply for selected nationally competitive scholarships relevant to their interests and goals. The LTE grant program was initially funded by a grant from the WKU Sisterhood in 2012.

The other 2015-16 awardees are:

·    Autumn Turner, a graduate student in geoscience from Thayer, Missouri, who will conduct research on ecological impacts of acidification in Kentucky’s river basins.

·    Anisha Tuladhar, a graduate student in geoscience from Kathmandu, Nepal, who will conduct research on glacial meltwater in Icelandic watersheds.

·    Lily Nellans, an international affairs and philosophy major from Windsor Heights, Iowa, who will complete an internship with an NGO in Tuzla, Bosnia, teaching students practical skills to help prepare them for academic study, professional careers and roles as citizens in a secular multiethnic and democratic society.

·    Helen Deborah Flynn, a geology major from Bowling Green, who will conduct research on subsurface permeability in Ethiopia.

·    Jennifer King, a photojournalism and Spanish major from Bowling Green, who will conduct humanitarian and scientific photojournalism in Kenya. “Our LTE program helps make meaningful experiences possible for ambitious students.

“Already, six of the 10 LTE grantees from 2014-15 have earned recognition as winners, alternates or honorable mentions in national scholarship competitions,” said Dr. Audra Jennings, Director of OSD.