Released: March 08, 2004

K-State Entomology Graduate Student Receives National Travel Scholarship

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State University entomology Ph.D. student Olgaly Ramos has been selected by the National Hispanic Environmental Council (NHEC) to receive its prestigious travel scholarship.

With the award, Ramos will attend the 9th Annual National Hispanic Sustainable Energy & Environmental Conference April 3-6 at the Marriott Pyramid North Hotel in Albuquerque, N.M.

Olgaly, a native of Puerto Rico, is doing her dissertation research on the efficacy of using insect-parasitic nematodes as natural enemies of pest insects in stored grain.

The conference sponsor is the National Hispanic Environmental Council (NHEC), a national, non-profit organization founded in 1996 and located near Washington, D.C. NHEC seeks to educate, unite, and engage the community on environmental and sustainable development issues; provide a national voice for Hispanics before federal, state, and non-profit environmental decision-makers; and actively assist Hispanics and other minorities to pursue career, business, educational, and policy opportunities in the environmental, natural resources, and energy fields. To accomplish this mission, it operates programs in partnership with the environmental movement.

Major sponsors of the conference include, among others, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Story by:
Mary Lou Peter
mlpeter@oznet.ksu.edu
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