Contact: Victoria Russell
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A Mississippi State doctoral student in forest resources is being honored by the Alabama-Mississippi Section of the American Water Works Association.
Austin R. Omer of Starkville received a $2,000 scholarship during the organization's recent annual conference in Point Clear, Alabama. A former Illinois resident, he is pursuing an academic concentration in wildlife and fisheries at the university.
The scholarships are awarded to Alabama and Mississippi residents preparing for water-works industry careers, whether pursuing advanced licensure or training in the water works science field or completing undergraduate or graduate degrees at an institution of higher learning.
The Alabama-Mississippi Section includes some 1,000 members representing utilities, sales and engineering firms, service providers and academia. Internationally, the American Water Works Association has more than 54,000 members.
For more details about the scholarships visit www.almsawwa.org.
Complete information on Mississippi's flagship research university is online at www.msstate.edu.