NAMA Scholarship Foundation Announces 2014 Scholarship Recipients

The NAMA Scholarship Foundationis pleased to announce the undergraduates chosen as recipients of scholarship grants for the 2014-15 academic school year. Winners will be honored at the 2015 Meat Industry Management Conference and Annual Meeting.

Frank DeBenedetti Scholarship
Adam Robert, Bartling University of Wisconsin

Bobby Hatoff Scholarship for Culinary Arts/Science
April Lee, Nicholls State University

NAMA Scholarships
Caitlyn Mullins, Ohio State University
Aeriel Belk, Colorado State University
McKensie Harris, University of Wyoming
Justin Parkins, University of Idaho
Patrick Linnell, Colorado State University
Miriam Martin, University of Missouri
Fred William Pohlman II, University of Arkansas
Courtney Spencer, University of Missouri
Emilee Haubner, Texas A&M University
Seth Ellsworth, Brigham Young University

These $2,250 to $2,500 merit-based awards are presented annually to undergraduate students studying animal/meat/food science and considering a career in the meat industry. One Robert Hatoff “Center of the Plate” Memorial Scholarship is also awarded to a student pursing a degree in Culinary Art/Science.

The Scholarship Foundation would also like to extend its gratitude to the scholarship review committee, which consisted of Dr. Robert Delmore, Colorado State University; Dr. John Henson, Fresno State University; Ron Richard, University of Idaho; Dr. Jeff Sindelar, University of Wisconsin; Shane Osterthaler, Carlton Farms.

Source: NAMA

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