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Six students earn prestigious Hollings Scholarship from NOAA

Six sophomores at the University of Rhode Island have been awarded the Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The scholarship provides students with a total of $16,000 toward tuition in their junior and seniors years at URI plus a paid summer internship at a NOAA lab anywhere in the country during the summer after their junior year. Since 2009, URI students have been awarded a total of 13 Hollings Scholarships.

This year�s recipients are marine biology majors Michael Canton of Warwick, Eilea Knotts of West Long Branch, N.J., Sarah Merolla of Hillsborough, N.J., Benjamin Sevey of Wakefield, Callie Veelenturf of Norfolk, Mass. (double major with wildlife conservation biology) and ocean engineering major Brenton Wallin of East Greenwich...

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