2 More Brookfield Students Earn National Merit Scholarships

BROOKFIELD, WI — The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced about 900 additional winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities.

These Merit Scholar designees join over 3,200 other college-sponsored award recipients who were announced in June.

Brookfield Honorees:

Emma G. Lenz

Probable career field: Aerospace Engineering
BROOKFIELD ACADEMY, BROOKFIELD

NATIONAL MERIT UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOLARSHIP

The University of Minnesota, the state land grant university, is the primary education and research center in Minnesota in the Health Sciences, Law, Engineering, Agriculture, and Forestry; it offers graduate level programs in all of these fields. The Twin Cities Campus, its largest, comprises 28 colleges. A comprehensive campus in Duluth, a four-year liberal arts campus at Morris, and two-year Technical Agricultural campuses in Crookston and Waseca are also parts of the university system.

Clare K. McCoy
Probable career field: Neurobiology

BROOKFIELD ACADEMY, BROOKFIELD

NATIONAL MERIT CARLETON COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP

The first private college in the Upper Midwest to have chapters of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, Carleton has been committed to academic excellence since its founding in 1866. The college's 1,000 acre campus is 35 miles south of Minneapolis-St. Paul in Northfield, where its 1,800 resident students and over 140 full-time faculty.

Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their institution. College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

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