WSU Auvil Scholars Program Awards 8 Honors College Undergraduate Researchers for Fall 2009
PULLMAN, Wash. – Eight Honors College students participating in mentored research on campus have received awards for fall semester from the Auvil Scholars program, according to an announcement by the Office of Undergraduate Research at Washington State University. A total of 22 awards were made for this semester.
The $1,000 Auvil awards are intended to further their research. The Auvil Scholars program was created in 2006 through an estate gift from WSU alumnus Grady and Lille Auvil, Wenatchee tree-fruit entrepreneurs. Awards for fall, spring, and summer semesters have been awarded to more than 60 students total, many of them students in the Honors College. The Auvil award program is administered through WSU Undergraduate Research, a unit of the Office of Undergraduate Education. » More …