PaSS graduate student Heidi West is a winner of an Annie’s Sustainable Agriculture Scholarship!
2008-04-02
This $2,500 scholarship from Annie’s Homegrown is part of a total of $50,000 in scholarship assistance awarded each year to some very deserving students.  Please see information below and website for more information.

Adelheid (Heidi) E. West earned a B.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Studio Art from OSU in 2006.  She is currently a MS student studying under Dr. Chad Penn examining the potential use of short-rotation woody crops in combination with agronomic crops to remediate animal waste lagoons.  The objectives are to characterize the sludge; evaluate the use of short rotation woody species and cover crops as potential candidates for P phytoremediation based on sludge layer root penetration, P uptake and allocation; and evaluate the potential for carbon sequestration of encased sludge layer compared to traditional surface sludge applications. 

Heidi is a recipient of the Annie’s Homegrown Sustainable Agriculture Scholarship.

Heidi is also an active local artist, and will be participating in Stillwater’s upcoming Art’s and Heritage Festival and teaches a beginning ceramics course at the Stillwater Multi Arts Center. 

Website:  http://www.annies.com/sustainable_agriculture_scholarship