Grad students’ scholarships to help them become science teachers
Two graduate students are the inaugural recipients of a special scholarship created to attract science majors to the teaching discipline.
The K-State TEACH scholarship is a collaboration between the university’s departments of secondary education, physics, geology, chemistry and biology. The scholarship is supported by the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Scholarship Program, which awarded K-State $875,000 over a five-year period to help increase the number of highly qualified middle- and high-school teachers in the science areas.
William Meier, a master’s student in curriculum and instruction, Manhattan, is receiving a $15,000 K-State TEACH scholarship for the 2009-2010 school year, while Samantha Parker, a master’s student in curriculum and instruction, Waterville, was awarded a $7,500 TEACH scholarship for the fall semester.
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