Jeff Krautkraemer "Pay It Forward" Recipients
Jeff Krautkraemer, who died in December 2004, was a professor in the WSU School of Economic Sciences.
2009 Recipient Fafanyo Asiseh
See full write up at: http://academic.cahnrs.wsu.edu/archive/2009/04-ghana-scholarship.html.
The scholarship fund was created by Krautkraemer’s family, friends and students. Asiseh received a scholarship award of $1,000 for the 2009-20010 academic year. Recipients are selected on the basis of their potential to carry out Krautkreamer’s vision of volunteerism and invovlement.
Fafanyo Asiseh, recipient of the second Dr. Jeff Krautkraemer Pay it Forward Scholarship, and Ron Mittelhammer, Regents Professor and director of the School of Economic Sciences. |
Fafanyo Asiseh, a first-year doctoral candidate, intends to use her education to help solve global environmental challenges. She plans to conduct research on the relationship between economic growth and natural resources decline. In addition, she would like to contribute to policy formulation in African regions that would help protect the environment while seeking economic growth.
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Click on the picture above to see the full picture. This is a picture of Fafanyo in Republic of Ghana, West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea. |
2008 Recipient Almuhanad Melhim
Third-year graduate student Almuhanad Melhim received the first Jeff Krautkraemer “Pay it Forward” Scholarship at an award ceremony held by WSU’s School of Economic Sciences on Wednesday at Hulbert Hall. Melhim is working toward his doctorate in economics. Melhim, who is from Syria, came to the United States in 2002 to work on his M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics. In 2005 he came to WSU to work on his PhD. He said his family has experienced the side effects of Syria’s agricultural policies, and he wanted to make a difference.
Evergreen write up is available at: http://www.dailyevergreen.com/story/24780.
Below are two pictures provided by Almuhanad Melhim. The first is a picture of Almuhanad in Syria, showing one angle of the family farm with the small village of Krufs in the background. On the right is a closeup within the Old Damascus City, which is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. (The pictures below are linked to their larger versions.)
