{"id":1100,"date":"2021-04-26T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2021-04-26T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T17:48:10","slug":"gabrielle-dennis-named-beering-scholar-by-purdue-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/26\/gabrielle-dennis-named-beering-scholar-by-purdue-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabrielle Dennis Named Beering Scholar by Purdue University"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gabrielle Dennis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Purdue University Honors College in West Lafayette, Indiana has announced that \u00a0Gabrielle Dennis has been awarded a Steven C. Beering Scholarship, which covers the full educational expenses for a bachelor\u2019s degree and the opportunity to pursue two other graduate degrees at Purdue.<\/p>\n

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Gabrielle, a Toledo native and an honor student at Ohio Virtual Academy, has decided to become a wildlife biologist and researcher. This career path has been her goal for most of her life now, as far back as the second grade, in fact, when she was often reading her favorite books \u2013 books about animals.<\/p>\n

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Later, during her high school years, she began to put those interests into practice when she started working as a volunteer at Nature\u2019s Nursery and at the Toledo Zoo. Nature\u2019s Nursery is a wildlife rehabilitation and education center in Whitehouse.<\/p>\n

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She has also had internships in the care of animals in southern Ohio and the Big Sur region of California. During her junior year, she was one of 100 teens from around the nation chosen to participate in the \u201cDisney Dreamers\u201d program in Orlando \u2013 a series of educational sessions that converts the amusement park into a classroom for students with a wide range of interests and studies.<\/p>\n

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During her California internship, Gabrielle had an opportunity to work in a site that specialized in assisting the endangered California condor.<\/p>\n

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The Beering Scholarship is a tremendous value as it provides a \u201cfull ride\u201d covering the average cost of education (tuition, room and board) for one bachelor\u2019s degree, one master\u2019s degree and either a Ph.D. or professional degree in medicine, veterinary medicine or pharmacy. It also includes funding for a study abroad experience.<\/p>\n

Students are selected based on high school credentials and leadership skills. The program was created by Purdue\u2019s ninth president, Steven C. Beering, PhD, who raised private funds for the endowment.<\/p>\n

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Scholarship recipients are selected through an invitation-only process once students are admitted to Purdue University. A committee then reviews applications and determines the recipients.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of my goals is to help the animals that need help the most,\u201d said Gabrielle. \u201cI\u2019d maybe like to teach at some point, but I definitely want to do research. I\u2019ve always wanted to go to the Galapagos Islands and maybe do research somewhere like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Special to The Truth   The Purdue University Honors College in West Lafayette, Indiana has announced that \u00a0Gabrielle Dennis has been awarded a Steven C. Beering Scholarship, which covers the full educational expenses for a bachelor\u2019s degree and the opportunity to pursue two other graduate degrees at Purdue.   Gabrielle, a Toledo native and an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[49],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}