{"id":67010,"date":"2006-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-earns-prestigious-udall-scholarship-for-environmental-study\/"},"modified":"2006-05-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-earns-prestigious-udall-scholarship-for-environmental-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/05\/uri-student-earns-prestigious-udall-scholarship-for-environmental-study\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student earns prestigious Udall Scholarship for environmental study"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tCranston resident pursuing horticulture degree after world travels<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. — May 4, 2006 — Jennifer Hushion has been a journalist in the Czech Republic, a financial consultant in Toronto, an English teacher at a refugee camp in Croatia, and an aide to a publishing executive in New York. Along the way, though, she discovered that her true passion is gardening, and after moving to Rhode Island she enrolled in the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Master Gardener training program.<\/p>\n


\n\tNow a full-time student at 溏心vlog免费B站 studying horticulture, Hushion has been named one of 80 students in the U.S. to be awarded the Morris K. Udall Scholarship, the nation\u2019s most prestigious award for students intending to pursue environmental careers.<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter being nominated by 溏心vlog免费B站 for the award, Hushion, 40, submitted an essay with her application that she believes was a major factor in her selection. \u201cI wrote that to be an effective environmentalist, you have to be political. If you want something done in a lasting way, you have to legislate it. I suspect that [those judging the applications] might not have seen that kind of essay from the typical 19- or 20-year old writing an essay. It\u2019s certainly not what I would have written when I was 20.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tTo accept the Udall Scholarship, Hushion will go to a four-day conference in Arizona in August to meet with policy makers and environmental leaders. \u201cI hope the program motivates everyone so we return to our schools with some enthusiasm for environmental responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe scholarship is named for the former Arizona congressman who served in the House of Representatives for three decades and whose love for the environment resulted in the passage of numerous important pieces of environmental legislation.<\/p>\n


\n\tHushion\u2019s interest in gardening developed somewhat unexpectedly. \u201cI was living in a tiny studio apartment in Toronto with a little balcony that faced south, and I started planting in pots on the balcony one summer. I had vines growing everywhere,\u201d said the Cranston resident. \u201cI did that as a hobby for a couple of summers and decided that\u2019s what I wanted to do [for a career].\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tShe has already gotten a good start on a professional gardening career. In 2004 she launched a small business called Get Up & Grow that specializes in the design and maintenance of residential perennial gardens.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a tiny little business, a very niche business, for homeowners who already have a landscape company taking care of the grass,\u201d Hushion explained. \u201cMost of the large scale firms that come in with six guys generally don\u2019t know much about plant material. I design, plant and maintain the perennial garden beds.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tShe clearly knows what she\u2019s doing. In 2004 she won the National Garden Club\u2019s Linda Wagner Perennial Garden Award for the best perennial garden in New England. She has also been awarded scholarships by the Rhode Island Nurserymen and Landscape Association, the Rhode Island Federation of Garden Clubs, and the Floriculture Industry Research and Scholarship Trust.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201c”Jennifer is typical of our \u2018non-traditional\u2019 students – a dedicated, hard working, front-row student,\u201d said 溏心vlog免费B站 Horticulture Professor Brian Maynard. \u201cYet she has also been spotted working in the greenhouses late in the day and on weekends, when all the other students have gone. This is just one example of the extra effort and sincerity Jennifer puts into her study of environmental horticulture. She is exemplary.”<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter she earns her bachelor\u2019s degree from the 溏心vlog免费B站 in 2007, Hushion intends to enroll in a graduate degree program at 溏心vlog免费B站 working with Professor Roger LeBrun and studying conservation biology.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI got around and have had a great life, and I don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve missed anything in life,\u201d she said. \u201cBut now I\u2019m settled in Rhode Island and enjoying my education and my gardening.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau Photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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