Richard Dumouchel Scholarship
In honor of our beloved trustee, Richard Dumouchel, the Foundation awards one URI student with a scholarship to pursue an education in conservation.
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Anya Almeida is a senior in Wildlife and Conservation Biology graduating in the spring. She grew up in Rhode Island and has been living in Narragansett for the past 4 years. She grew up hiking and swimming in local ponds and at the ocean nurturing her love for the outdoors.
From 2020-2022, Anya worked at an organic no-till vegetable farm in Exeter. During the summer of 2022, she worked as a Naturalist Teacher at the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown. Her research experience includes working as a research assistant this past summer (2023) in Peru with an organization called Field Projects International. This organization has been collecting data on primate species in the Amazon rainforest for the last 12 years. Anya worked with Emperor Tamarin and Saddleback Tamarin species. Finally, she worked with URI professors on an aquaculture research project. This project looked at the impact of shorebird species on the bacteria levels in and on the aquaculture farms.
In the future, she hopes to continue her work in conservation and research.
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2022 Patrick Felkner
2021 Kylie Rezendes
2020 Emma Paton
2019 Alicia Jones
2018 Sadie DeCurtis
2017 Ryan Healy
2016 Anthony βAntβ Sawaia
2015 Gillian Baird
2014 Mary Grande
2013 Marianne Diffin
2012 Joshua Sargent
2011 Ryan Kleinert
2010 Charleve Carey
2009 Cynthia Maynard
2008 Ben Vinhateiro
2007 Samantha Petzold
2006 Malcolm Grant
2005 Grace Lentini
2004 Jeffrey Backer
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To be eligible, a student must be majoring in either Environmental Science and Management or Wildlife and Conservation Biology and have grown up in Westerly or Washington County RI.
A committee of URI NRS faculty members reviews and ranks the eligible applicants based on their resumes, their experience working on conservation projects, their GPA, and their commitment to conservation. Nominees are forwarded to the Weekapaug Foundation for Conservation for consideration.