DRI Awards 2003 Jonathan O. Davis Scholarship
Humboldt State University graduate student Ronna Bowers has been awarded the Desert Research Institute’s $3,750 Jonathan O. Davis National Scholarship in Quaternary Sciences for 2003 for her research proposal involving anancient lake in Lassen County, Cal. University of Nevada, Reno Ph.D. candidate Kelly Graf won the $1,450 Davis Stipend for her proposal to conduct geoarchaeological studies of a prehistoric Native American rockshelter.
DRI scientist Jonathan O. Davis, a prominent geologist and geoarchaeologist, died in an auto accident near Reno in 1990. The memorial scholarship, administered by DRI's Quaternary Sciences Center, is open to graduate students enrolled in a M.S. or Ph.D. program at any United States university and supports field research concerning Quaternary geology of the Great Basin or surrounding areas. The stipend is open to graduate students enrolled in a geology-related M.S. or Ph.D. program at the University of Nevada, Reno.
For information: http://www.dri.edu/Opportunities/JonathanDavis.htmlA nonprofit, statewide division of the University and Community College System of Nevada, DRI pursues a full-time program of basic and applied environmental research on a local, national, and international scale. Nearly 500 full- and part-time scientists, technicians, and support staff conduct some 150 research projects at DRI annually. More than 85 percent of DRI's annual $33 million operating budget consists of research grants and contracts obtained by its scientists. The balance is received from the state of Nevada for administrative costs.