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2010-2011 scholarship Awardees
The IAEM Scholarship
Commission awarded scholarships to three students in emergency management and related programs for the 2010-2011 school year. Congratulations to this year's IAEM scholarship winners!
Scholarship Recipient Profiles
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Matthew R. Hart, the recipient of the $2,500 DRI International Lacy Suiter Emergency Management Scholarship, is working toward a bachelor of science degree in emergency management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, with a planned graduation date of June 2011. He is the Regimental Emergency Management Operations Officer within the Regiment of Cadets at the academy, the highest ranking cadet in the emergency management degree program and one of the top 11 leadership positions within the Regiment. He has worked with a fellow cadet to reestablish the inactive IAEM Student Chapter at the academy and create activities for the chapter.
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Christopher A. Gaylord is working toward a master’s degree in emergency services administration at California State University, Long Beach, with a planned graduation date of May 2012. Since April 2007, he has been the campus emergency manager for the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), with responsibilities for overall emergency management programs, including campus-level emergency planning, assisting units and divisions with their own emergency planning efforts, coordinating the campus Emergency Operations Center, providing preparedness and response training to students, faculty and staff, and serving as the liaison to the County of Santa Cruz Office of Emergency Services and other local, state and federal agencies. Gaylord is the first person in this position at this campus and also is a sworn member of the UCSC Fire Department with the rank of Captain. He received a $1,500 IAEM Scholarship.
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Brendan Manning is the third recipient of the $1,000 Command Sergeant Major L. Ken Fisher Emergency Management Scholarship. He is working toward a MPH in global health at Loma Linda University, with a planned graduation date of March 2011. He earned his undergraduate degree in health sciences from Ithaca College while participating in a Bunker Program, which allowed him to live and work at the firehouse, committing to two night shifts a week. As an undergraduate, he volunteered on humanitarian projects in Central and South America and chose to enter the Peace Corps following graduation. Manning chose the global health MPH because it combined his passions for international work and emergency response.
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