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May 14, 2004
Evan Frankel Foundation Scholarships to Marine Science Students Are Announced
Student Research Awards Total $244,000 Since 1997; Aids in College's Experiential Educational OpportunitiesContact:
Patricia Conway
631-287-8313Southampton, NY -- Five students in the Marine Science Program at Southampton College of Long Island University have been awarded $4,000 scholarships by the Evan Frankel Foundation based in East Hampton. The Foundation, which made its first grant to students in the College's Marine Science Program in 1997, has now awarded 63 scholarships for a total of $244,000.
This spring's scholarship winners are John Carroll of Wayne, N.J., Matthew Duffy of Romulus, N.Y., Lindsay Moore of Harbor Springs, MI, Adam Pollack of Lyndhurst, N.J., and Michelle Weiss of Cutchogue, N.Y.
"We are grateful that The Evan Frankel Foundation has continued its commitment to our marine science students," said Southampton College Provost Daniel Rodas. "This support will enable our students to become tomorrow's leaders in marine research and preservation."
The Frankel Scholarships have allowed Southampton College marine science students to pursue such diverse interests as studying tropical marine ecosystems in the South Pacific, sea turtles in Puerto Rico and bluefish tuna in the Gulf of Maine, holding internships around the world, working with marine mammals, and studying marine chemistry at the Monterey Bay Research Institute.
Two of the latest scholarship recipients, Carroll and Weiss, will remain on Long Island and study eel grass with Cornell Cooperative in Southold, N.Y. and hard clam larva with Southampton College and Stony Brook University professors. Moore is heading to the University of Michigan Biological Station to do research on the crawling water beetle and algae, while Pollack will study black sea bass and summer flounder at the James J. Howard Lab in Sandy Hook, N.J. Duffy will take a position at the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in the Chesapeake Bay.
Established in 1978, The Evan Frankel Foundation's primary emphasis is in higher education, the humanities and the environment. The late Evan Frankel, who received an Honorary Degree from Southampton College in 1982, was instrumental in founding the Jewish Center of the Hamptons and was active in the East End community for more than 50 years.
The Marine and Environmental Sciences programs at the College are nationally recognized for their excellence, and have produced 37 prestigious Fulbright scholars in the past 28 years -- an astounding number for an institution as small as Southampton. More than 1,000 men and women have graduated from the program and gone on to leading graduate schools and distinguished careers.