This year’s application deadline for the Ruth Denison Environmental Conservation Scholarship has been extended. That’s good news for any local high school senior with his or her sights set on environmental or conservation work. Reporter Mike Lipsitz is here with the details…
Graduating local high school seniors now have an extra month, until May 1, to apply for the $500 Ruth Denison Environmental Conservation Scholarship. Awarded by the Morongo Basin Conservation Association, the scholarship will go to a senior who plans to pursue a career involving environmental or conservation work. Applicants must be a resident of Morongo Basin, graduating in 2021, and have a GPA of 3.25 or more. An application form is available at mbconservation.org or follow the link below.
https://www.mbconservation.org/denison_scholarship_for_2021-2022
Ruth Denison’s generous bequest fulfills one of MBCA’s longstanding goals to increase the organization’s support of environmental education for local students. Denison was the first Buddhist teacher in the United States to lead an all-women’s retreat for Buddhist meditation and instruction. Her Dhamma Dena Desert Vipassana Center is in Joshua Tree. She was a long-time supporter of MBCA, Morongo Basin’s oldest conservation organization.
