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NYWEA Offers $19,000 in Scholarships!

The New York Water Environment Association will be offering a total of six (6) $1,500 scholarships and one (1) $10,000 scholarship in 2009.

2009 $10,000 Environmental Career Scholarship

The eligibility criteria for the $10,000 scholarship (paid out over four years) is as follows:

The recipient must be:

  • A qualifying high school senior
  • A New York State resident
  • Enrolled full-time in a B.S. or B.E. degree program with an environmental emphasis.

2009 $1,500 Scholarship Application Package

To be eligible for one of the $1,500 scholarships:

  • Two (2) are granted to children of members
  • Two (2) are granted to students enrolled at a college or university where there is a NYWEA student chapter, and
  • Two (2) are granted to high school students who will be enrolled in an environmentally related program in a four year college or university.

Application deadline:
January 22, 2009

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Application deadline:
January 22, 2009

Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file, opens in a new window Scholarship Announcement

Submit completed applications to:

NYWEA Executive Office
525 Plum Street, Suite 102
Syracuse, NY 13204
(315) 422-7811 or (315) 422-3851 fax

Read about Marissa Goldblatt, 2005 Scholarship Winner.


N. G. Kaul Memorial Scholarship, 2009 Scholarship Application Package

N. G. KaulThe N. G. Kaul Memorial Scholarship Fund will be offering a total of $2500 in scholarships to students pursuing graduate or doctoral degrees in environmental/civil engineering or environmental science concentrating on water quality who show a commitment to government service.

Application deadline is February 28, 2009. Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file, opens in a new window Print Application.

N.G. Kaul was a highly respected engineer, an emigrant from India who fulfilled the American dream of opportunity realized. He had a distinguished career in public service, first with New York City and then with the New York State DEC, rising to the position of director of the Division of Water in 1992. That service was capped, upon his retirement in 2002, by his appointment as director of the USEPA effort to implement the dredging of PCB-polluted sediments in the Hudson River. He died in February, 2003.

View N.G. Kaul Scholarship Winners.



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