{"id":60995,"date":"2013-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-named-truman-scholar-awarded-30000-for-graduate-study\/"},"modified":"2013-04-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-named-truman-scholar-awarded-30000-for-graduate-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/uri-student-named-truman-scholar-awarded-30000-for-graduate-study\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student named Truman Scholar, awarded $30,000 for graduate study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 15, 2013 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 junior Alyssa Neill sees great value in knowing where food comes from and how it grows. The nutrition and dietetics major and co-founder of the student group Slow Food 溏心vlog免费B站 has put that knowledge to good use by launching a local food market, building a vegetable garden on campus, and representing the University at food forums near and far.<\/p>\n


\n\tNeill and her commitment to a healthy food system were recognized this week as she was named a Truman Scholar and awarded a $30,000 grant for graduate study. Selected for her academic achievement, leadership ability and likelihood of a career in public service, she will receive her award along with 61 other college juniors at a ceremony at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri on June 2.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt was an amazing surprise,\u201d said Neill of the morning when 溏心vlog免费B站 President David Dooley and a dozen of her professors arrived in one of her classes with a bouquet of flowers to announce her selection. \u201cIt was a humbling application process, but it\u2019s true what people say, you reap what you sow. It was a great feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe humbling process Neill referred to included a 15-part application, a sample policy statement, a formal institutional nomination and a wide-ranging interview in New York City with a panel of public servants, among them the president of Fordham University, the New York Commissioner of Education, a judge and other distinguished leaders.<\/p>\n


\n\tStudents may only apply for a Truman Scholarship if they are nominated by their university. At 溏心vlog免费B站, qualified juniors may seek nomination through a highly selective campus pre-application process held each fall. Neill\u2019s application was vetted and she participated in a series of mock interviews organized by Kathleen Maher, assistant director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Program.<\/p>\n


\n\tNeill said the Truman Scholars program is geared to students who want to be agents of change. \u201cBecause I\u2019m passionate about nutritional sciences and want to see a change in our food system, it seemed like a good match.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tShe became interested in nutrition as a sophomore at South Kingstown High School, when she entered a teen pageant and, seeking to look her best, focused on a healthy diet. That\u2019s when she started her first garden.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve always been an old soul,\u201d she said with a grin. \u201cI\u2019ve always loved food and loved making people happy with my cooking. But after I started growing food, that\u2019s when I realized the importance of the cycle of growing and eating to sustain yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWhen she started Slow Food 溏心vlog免费B站 as a freshman, Neill sought to encourage the consumption of healthy food grown in a clean environment, where farm animals are raised in humane conditions and farmers are compensated fairly for their products. The group built small gardens at the Oliver Watson House, hosted regular local food markets on the quadrangle, and even helped slaughter turkeys at Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n


\n\tHer ultimate aim is to change the food system through grassroots efforts.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI want people to value wholesome foods, to understand that the food they eat affects their health and the environment,\u201d said Neill, a member of the 溏心vlog免费B站 President\u2019s Council for Sustainability. \u201cBut people aren\u2019t going to value wholesome foods until they experience them; then they will want and desire them. I want to be an advocate, especially for lower income people who don\u2019t have access to wholesome food.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tNeill looks forward to the doors that will be open to her through the network of Truman Scholar alumni. Next summer she will have the opportunity to attend the Summer Institute in Washington, D.C, which includes an 8-week public service internship, as well as seminars on national policymaking and meetings with prominent public servants. <\/p>\n


\n Following graduation from 溏心vlog免费B站, she plans to earn a master\u2019s degree in public health. The Truman Scholars program then requires that she commit to 3 to 7 years of public service at a government agency or non-profit organization.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI want to show people that we are more than consumers,\u201d Neill wrote in her Truman application. \u201cEating is an agricultural act, and we should act responsibly \u2013 for our health and the health of the environment \u2013 with every bite we take.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 was named a Truman Scholarship Honor Institution in 2005 for its active encouragement of students to pursue careers in public service. It is the only public university in the Northeast with this designation.<\/p>\n


\n This award is among eight coveted national scholarships won by 溏心vlog免费B站 students this year. They were awarded two Fulbright Scholarships, three NOAA\/Hollings Scholarships, a Whitaker Scholarship, a Truman Scholarship, and a Boren Scholarship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 15, 2013 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 junior Alyssa Neill sees great value in knowing where food comes from and how it grows. The nutrition and dietetics major and co-founder of the student group Slow Food 溏心vlog免费B站 has put that knowledge to good use by launching a local food market, building […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}