| 2010 Students of Parents with Disabilities Scholarship Winners Announced |
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Each award is a $1,000 college scholarship for an outstanding high school senior or college student who has at least one parent with a disability. Selection criteria included academic performance, community service, letters of recommendation and an essay describing the experience of growing up with a parent with a disability. Students applying for these scholarships included those with parents who were quadriplegic, blind, deaf, amputees, as well as parents with spinal cord injury, cancer, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, mental illness, ALS, HIV/AIDS, traumatic brain injury, muscular dystrophy or intellectual disability. As one of several projects of the National Center, these scholarships are funded through the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), U.S. Department of Education. Scholarships have been awarded to the following students: Cameron Allen (hometown Spokane Valley, WA; attending the University of Washington); Anna Butrym (West Columbia, SC; Erskine College); Ivy Crowder (Orlando, FL; College of Charleston, SC); Mary Katherine Fanning (St. Louis, MO; The Johns Hopkins University); Jessica Guzman (Columbia, MD; St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN); Megan Hasenyager (Rockwall, TX; University of Oklahoma); Bridget Hickey (Chicago, IL; Northern Illinois University); Jenna Morris (Springville, CA; Fresno Pacific University); Wendy Ramirez (Houston, TX; University of Houston Downtown); and Stephen (SouthEastern U.S.) |
