The Scholarship Committee seeks to promote and foster interest in the fields of water treatment and the environment and develop a fair selection process for awarding scholarships to the most qualified candidate(s) planning to enter or already in a study program in these fields.
Student Scholarship Information
- Visit nywea.org/scholarships/application for full descriptions of all state level NYWEA scholarships and download the application. Submit the application on the state level and if you are from the capital region you will be considered for state first then local only scholarships.
- If you have questions or want to verify your state application was received, please email Scholarship Program Administrator Maggie Simpson at [email protected].
- If you have questions or want to verify any topics relative to local scholarships please email Capital Chapter Committee Chair at [email protected].
- State level is offering $50,000 in scholarships to students entering/pursuing a career in the environmental sciences. Local is offering (2) $1,500 scholarships for qualified applicants living or going to school in the NYWEA Capital Chapter Region.
Congratulations to our 2023 Student State Scholorship recipients !!
Cooper Mattice – Clarkson University 2025
Noor Marzouk Environmental and Civil Engineering
2022 Student State Scholarship recipients
Baylee Szekeres – Clarkson University
Julia Piskun – Clarkson University
2021 Student State Scholorship recipients
Nathan Slisher – Ballston Lake
Chloe Hodgson
The R. Paul Farrell Jr. Scholarship
Paul Farrell was the “grandfather” of the grinder pump and worked for E-one corporation. Paul Farrell has dedicated over 3 decades of his professional career to grinder pumps and pressure sewers. In the 1960’s Paul was tasked with designing a pump able to handle residential wastwater. The result was the grinder pump with all of the essential features of the present day E/One unit. He spent the next two decades working on the world’s first commercially available grinder pump.
Congratulations to our 2020 recipients: Alexandra Rachiele, RPIand William Marti, Clarkson University!! We trust the connections made through your association with NYWEA helps build resources in your career to help with future projects. Good luck to you both for your years ahead!
Alexandra Rachiele, B.S. Industrial and Management Engineering ’22 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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William Marti – Clarkson
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Operator Scholarship Information
- NYWEA is offering scholarships to individuals living in New York State to pay for pre-certification training towards wastewater operator certification!
- Pre-Certification training includes Basic Operations, Basic Laboratory, Activated Sludge, the Supervisory and Technical Module, and Grade 4 Management.
- Brian Romeiser Pre-Certification Operator Scholarship (If not a NYWEA member you are given a free year of membership)- Ten scholarships of up to $1,000 each will be awarded throughout the year; 5 in the Spring due March 1st and 5 in the Fall due November 1st.
- Lucy Grassano Scholarship (NYWEA Members Only) Funds offered for registration and travel expenses (when in person) to attend a NYWEA conference. This opportunity is for certified operators to attend the 93rd Annual Meeting Virtually as well as the 2021 Spring Meeting in Syracuse, NY. Full week registration waived for both NYWEA conferences, travel stipend for Spring Meeting.
- Find more information @ www.nywea.org/SitePages/Operator-Certification/information/default.aspx Tanya May Jennings, Operator Certification Administrator is the contact person for both the Grassano and Romeiser scholarships at NYWEA [email protected]
