Calvin junior Tyler Bleeker (Zeeland, Mich.) has been awarded a prestigious Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowship from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
See full story: http://www.calvin.edu/news/archive/biology-major-awarded-major-epa-research-fellowship
Bleeker is one of just 40 students nationwide to receive the fellowship, which provides financial support for his junior and senior years of undergraduate study at Calvin and for a paid summer internship at an EPA facility during the 2012 summer. In total, the grant amounts to $48,900.
"My undergraduate education is paid for now," said Bleeker. "It's taken a while for me to realize what it meant."
In addition, this summer, thanks to a Research Experience for Undergraduates grant from the National Science Foundation, Bleeker will be researching for 10 weeks at Fordham University's biological field station in a suburb of New York City. He'll be working with a graduate student studying the growth traits of a field mustard plant, native to southern California, during the course of a growing season. Bleeker will be studying this specific plant to help determine how the characteristics of a plant may make it more adaptable to invading a new habitat.
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