Twenty-three Students Will Receive Awards for Essays Related to
Overpopulation
ALEXANDRIA, Va. , July 17,
2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Negative Population Growth
leaders have announced this year's annual Essay Scholarship
Contest winners. Soon, twenty-three students from across the
U.S. will receive awards ranging from $5,000 to $1,500 to
help with their tuition and other expenses.
This year, high school seniors and undergraduate students
competed for the scholarship awards by writing an original 450-600
word essay addressing the provided prompt. Seniors and
undergraduates were asked to imagine themselves 20 years in the
future where the population in their area has doubled in size since
2024. They were asked to name three of the most serious problems
your community faces because of this population growth. They were
also asked what they as an individual can do to help protect their
community in the future.
Graduate students were given the same prompt, but they were also
asked to consider what local officials and community leaders can do
today to prevent these problems in the future. Graduate essays were
between 750 and 1,000 words.
The Donald W. Mann Memorial
Scholarship for Population Studies, named in honor of NPG's late
founder and president, has been awarded to Essence Roark, a graduate student from
Yale University (Yale School of Public Health). She will receive the
grand prize of $5,000 for her entry
to NPG's Graduate Student Essay Scholarship Contest.
Theresa Mickendrow, NPG's
longest-serving employee, worked with Don for nearly 31 years. She
fondly remembers Don's commitment to education by stating: "Don
fully understood that young people have incredible influence over
our shared future. He knew that NPG must communicate with young
adults while they are still determining their values and goals for
the next 50 years of their lives and instill in them the belief
that population size and growth play enormous roles in the health
of our nation. By offering multiple scholarships, NPG encourages
young people to examine U.S. demographic trends carefully and to
make sustainable choices. Our goal has always been to change how
Americans view population growth in the U.S. Young people are no
exception to that goal."
Additional graduate winners include Alex
Blake from the University of
Nevada, who won $3,500 and
Joy McFadden from the College of
Architecture and Planning at the University of
Colorado, who won $2,500.
Eight $1,500 scholarships were
awarded separately to Michelle Berg
from the National University of Natural
Medicine, Jessica Davis from
Vanderbilt University, Tyler Kleinsasser from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology,
Jill Koundakjian from The
University of Kansas, Monica Monroe from Eastern
Illinois University, Jennifer
Powers from The University of
Chicago, Zion Richardson from
Emory University-Goizueta Business
School and Sarah Slay from
UNC Chapel Hill.
Undergraduate winners include Youssef El-Mankabady from UC
Berkeley, who won the top undergraduate prize of $4,000. In addition to the top prize Jose Castro from Florida
International University won $2,500 and Matthew
Schneider from Berklee College of
Music won $2,000. Nine
$1,500 scholarships were awarded
separately to: Jack Casey from The
University of Arizona, Viera Fisher from Wright
State University, Jace Hersey
from Southwestern University,
Jessica Nguyen from the University of Louisville, Lily Ogburn from Northwestern University, Christian Santos from California State University, Christopher Slack from Hartwick College, Zoe
Thomas from the University of
Vermont, and Brooklyn Wagner from California Baptist University.
This year's prizes are just a portion of the hundreds of
thousands of dollars of scholarship money that NPG has awarded
since 2006 as part of its Youth Outreach program. This
multi-faceted program is designed to get America's young people
focused on the disastrous future that awaits their generation if
our nation's leaders fail to recognize and act on putting forth
workable, responsible, common-sense solutions to today's
ever-growing population crisis.
Along with sponsoring the annual student scholarship
competition, NPG has worked through the years with thousands of
teachers nationwide who help bring facts about population to
America's classrooms. These efforts are funded through the generous
support of NPG members who are especially interested in leaving a
livable world to their children and grandchildren.
Since 1972, NPG has worked to educate both the public and policy
leaders about the impacts of overpopulation. With a steadfast
commitment to reducing population growth to achieve a sustainable
balance with our environmental resources, NPG continues to be a
leading voice of reason in a world often driven by the pursuit of
perpetual growth. We do not simply identify the problems – we
propose solutions. For more information, visit our website
at NPG.org, follow us on
Facebook @NegativePopulationGrowth or follow us on
X @npg_org.
Media Contact
Craig Lewis, Negative Population
Growth, 703-370-9510, media@npg.org, https://www.npg.org
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