Megan A. Styles, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a $32,000 Edwin, Frederick and Walter Beinecke Memorial Scholarship to support graduate study.
A dual anthropology and environmental studies major, Styles is an Arthur J. Lien Scholar at the University, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and serves as an undergraduate teaching assistant in anthropology. She is one of 21 students nationwide to receive the 2000 Beinecke Scholarship.
"I am thrilled Megan was selected to receive this prestigious scholarship," said Sharon Stahl, Ph.D., associate dean and director of the Honorary Scholars Program in Arts & Sciences. "Megan's love of learning, her insatiable curiosity and her boundless enthusiasm for whatever she tackles make her both a matchless scholar and an endearing mentor."
Since 1975, the Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship Program has awarded more than 230 scholarships to "highly motivated" college juniors from 86 different schools. The scholarship, which is awarded before students apply to graduate school, provides financial support for two years of graduate study at an accredited university.
Styles said she is still working out the details of her course of study but would like to build upon her undergraduate majors. "I'm searching for a way to bridge my interests in anthropology and the environment and plan to pursue a graduate education in ecological anthropology, cultural geography or environmental education," she said. "I would like to explore the connections between the physical landscape and human cultural heritage and share my research with others through teaching, writing and possibly exhibit design."
Each year, roughly 80 colleges and universities are invited to nominate one student each for the scholarship. The scholarships are awarded based on the students' "demonstrated superior standards of intellectual ability, scholastic achievement and personal promise during their undergraduate career."
