Scholarship Qualifications and Guidelines
Ensure that you meet the following qualifications:
Should you have any questions, please contact Ms. Laura James at (601) 961-5675 or via email at ljames@mdeq.ms.gov.
The deadline to apply is June 10, 2022.
There are six sections of the application process:
Ensure that you meet the following qualifications:
- Applicants must be pursuing a graduate-level course of study and research leading to a career related to air or water quality, waste management, pollution prevention, environmental policy/compliance/law, or sustainability. Applicants must also be attending a full-time graduate school program at a Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi or Tennessee university for the 2022-2023 academic year.
- Applicants are encouraged to be student members of the A&WMA or environmental professionals returning to school for graduate study.
- Awards will be made on the basis of academic record and career goals, without consideration of sex, race, national origin, age, or physical disability.
- For the 2022-2023 academic year, the Southern Section will present two $1,000 scholarship awards. The Section's Student Scholarship Awards Committee will review all applications received. Announcement of the scholarship awards will be made by the Committee and awarded at the Southern Section Annual Meeting (September 20-22, 2022, in Chattanooga, Tennessee).
- Scholarship recipients are encouraged to attend the Southern Section Annual Meeting. Registration fees for the Southern Section Annual Meeting will be waived for scholarship recipients, and limited travel reimbursement may be available. Scholarship recipients will also be awarded a complimentary one-year student level membership to the international Air & Waste Management Association.
Should you have any questions, please contact Ms. Laura James at (601) 961-5675 or via email at ljames@mdeq.ms.gov.
The deadline to apply is June 10, 2022.
There are six sections of the application process:
- Section 1 - Application: This section should contain information regarding your plan of study.
- Section 2 - Statement of Professional Goals: This section should discuss your planned graduate study, relating the significance and relation between (a) coursework and research and (b) professional objective(s). Limit to a maximum of two single spaced typed pages.
- Section 3 - Transcripts: This section should contain transcripts for baccalaureate and higher degree(s). Photocopies are acceptable.
- Section 4 - Verification of Graduate School Acceptance: This section should contain acceptable documentation that you will be attending a qualifying graduate program during the 2022-2023 academic year.
- Section 5 - Professional/Non-Professional Work Experience: This section should contain a resume of part-time and full-time work experience including dates of employment, employer, and responsibilities. You may also choose to include information with respect to community participation, professional registration/certification status, and scholarships/fellowships received. Limit to a maximum of two single spaced typed pages.
- Section 6 - Recommendations: Letters of recommendation are required for two references. They may be enclosed with the application or sent separately by the reference.
Optionally, you may download a copy of the scholarship application and email the PDF package to Laura James at ljames@mdeq.ms.gov or a hardcopy addressed as follows:
Laura James
Scholarship Committee Chair
MS DEQ
P.O. Box 2261
Jackson, MS 39225
Laura James
Scholarship Committee Chair
MS DEQ
P.O. Box 2261
Jackson, MS 39225