John Denver Memorial Scholarship in Tropical Ecology
Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center
at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
John Denver
December 31, 1943 - October 12, 1997
"We can find a better way"
John Denver died tragically on October 12, 1997. Although John Denver is undoubtedly best known for his music and films, he was also one of the nation's most visible environmental activists. His concern for the environment inspired him to establish the Windstar Foundation, a non-profit environmental education and research center that works for a sustainable future for the world. John Denver was also a member of the Presidential Commission on World and Domestic Hunger and was awarded the Presidential World Without Hunger Award. He supported many environmental and welfare organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Save the Children, the Cousteau Society and Friends of the Earth. In recognition of this commitment to the environment, John Denver was the first recipient of the World Ecology Medal awarded by the International Center for Tropical Ecology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
The Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center awards each year a research scholarship in memory of John Denver. Funds for this scholarship have come through a generous challenge grant from the Kroeger Family Charitable Foundation and from numerous friends of John Denver and the Harris Center.
If we all could give a donation in John's name to help fulfill the scholarship, we all, in our own way, could help honor his memory and provide a fitting tribute because he cared so much about the environment. If you wish to donate to this endowed scholarship in memory of JOHN DENVER please send a check to:
Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center University of Missouri-St. Louis ATTN.: Dr. Patrick Osborne Department of Biology One University Boulevard St. Louis MO 63121 U.S.A.
Please make checks payable to Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center and under the memo portion of the check, please indicate that this money is to go to the John Denver Endowment Research Scholarship. Each donation is tax deductible and a receipt will be sent to you.
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Recipients of the John Denver Memorial Scholarship
2006 Iris I. Levin
Fitness Consequences of Haemoproteus in Great Frigatebirds (Fregata minor)
on Isla Genovesa, Galapagos
(Support for Ph.D. research)
2005 Shane Siers
Comparing gene flow estimates in arboreal and terrestrial lemurs.
(Support for Master’s research)
2004 Anna Brasher
Inter- and intra- sexual selection in the livebearing fish Poecilia
picta: the role of multiple traits.
2003 Zachary Rogers
A taxonomic revision of the genus Stephanodaphne (Thymelaeaceae).
2002 Adriana Rodriguez-Ferraro
Spatial and genetic lek structure in Andean Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola
peruviana).
2001 Kimberly Holbrook
Seed dispersal ecology and movement patterns of toucans in Amazonia Ecuador.
2000 Lucio Malizia
Understanding consequences of the loss of pre-montane forests for bird
communities of Northwestern Argentina: A pilot study.
1999 Luciana Griz
Spatial distribution of plant life stages and the role of post-dispersal
factors on recruitment of an animal-dispersed tree in Caatinga (NE Brazil).
1998 Iván Jiménez
Ecology and conservation of Curassows in the Colombian Amazon.
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