The dairy checkoff has awarded 22 academic scholarships to students enrolled in programs that emphasize dairy and who have shown potential to become future dairy leaders.
The National Dairy Promotion and Research Board (NDB), through Dairy Management Inc., which manages the national dairy checkoff, annually awards $1,500 scholarships to each student. In addition, the NDB awards a $2,500 James H. Loper Jr. Memorial Scholarship to one outstanding recipient.
Eligible majors include journalism, communications/public relations, marketing, business, economics, nutrition, food science, or agriculture education. Scholarship criteria include academic achievement, a career interest in a dairy-related discipline, along with demonstrated leadership, initiative and integrity.
Morgan Richard, who attends Louisiana State University, earned the James H. Loper Jr. Memorial Scholarship.
Students earning $1,500 scholarships are:
Kayla Babbush, Cornell University; Sydney Endres, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clint Gasser, Ohio State University; Morgan Goche, South Dakota State University; Simon Itle, Penn State University; Jacob Johnson, South Dakota State University; Kirby Krogstad, South Dakota State University; Sophia Josephine Leone, University of Arizona; Kara Maxwell, Iowa State University; Courtney McCourt; University of Wisconsin-Madison; N. Salvatore Millington, University of Maryland; Ashley R. Mohn, Delaware Valley University; Kristin Mohr, South Dakota State University; Andrea Pfaffenbach, South Dakota State University; Sarah Post, South Dakota State University; Sarabeth Christine Royer, Penn State University; Megan Schaefer, South Dakota State University; Mariah Schmitt, Iowa State University; Audrey Souza, South Dakota State University; Grant Henry Voelker, University of Missouri; Kaylee Wegner, South Dakota State University.
About Dairy Management
Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) is funded by America's nearly 47,000 dairy farmers, as well as dairy importers. Created to help increase sales and demand for dairy products, DMI and its related organizations work to increase demand for dairy through research, education and innovation, and to maintain confidence in dairy foods, farms and businesses. DMI manages National Dairy Council and the American Dairy Association, and founded the U.S. Dairy Export Council, and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. 11.13.2015