Syngenta recognizes the inaugural grand prizewinners of the national Syngenta Agricultural Scholarship essay contest.
By Lauren Hafezi
Kelsey Hensley
Congratulations to the inaugural grand prizewinners of the national Syngenta Agricultural Scholarship essay contest: graduate winner Kelsey Hensley (left) of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and undergraduate winner Linda Millett (below) of Oregon State University. Hensley and Millett each received $1,000 in regional awards and were presented with their national prizes, additional $6,000 scholarships, at a special awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.
Linda Millett
In an effort to continue identifying tomorrow’s agriculture industry leaders, Syngenta is calling for applications to its 2015 scholarship program. Students enrolled in an accredited agriculture program at a U.S. land grant university in the spring of 2015 will be eligible.
Applications are due in April. For more information, please visit the scholarship website.
From left to right: Emily Buck, regional winner from the University of Tennessee; Emma Likens, regional winner from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Konstantin Divilov, regional winner from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and national winners Hensley and Millett. Not pictured are regional winners Marissa Horton from Cornell University and Michael Atlanasi from the University of California-Davis.
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