Congratulations to the recipients of this year's merit scholarships!

The Environmental Consortium recently partnered with two entities to offer competitive merit scholarships to students enrolled at member institutions of the Consortium. One student was awarded The Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, Inc. Founders Fund Scholarship, and two students were awarded The Pace Law School Environmental Consortium Merit Scholarship.

Jessica Steinberg is the 2006 recipient of the $2,000 Theodore Gordon Flyfishers Founders Fund Scholarship. Enrolled in a joint degree program with Bard College and Pace Law School, Jessica will earn her Master in Science and Juris Doctor degrees. While at Pace Law School she has been the Vice Chair of the Grading Committee for the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition. Ms. Steinberg says that with her joint degrees, she will "be equipped to encourage sound environmental policies and fight for stricter conservation regulations, which in turn will ultimately benefit the tri-state region."

Pace Law School awarded two merit scholarships: $27,000, renewable each year, to Ben L. Sosne of Columbia University, and $3,000, renewable each year, to Katherine G. McGee of Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Ben Sosne, currently a History major at Columbia University, worked as an undergraduate at the Harlem Youth Renaissance and volunteers at the New York Historical Society. Katherine G. McGee is the current President of the Environmental Alliance Club at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Ms. McGee helped organize the 10th Annual Ramapo Watershed Conference as a member of the Ramapo River Committee. Both recipients will be working with the Center for Environmental Legal Studies on Hudson River issues during their time at Pace Law School.