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Aimee Bousquet 鈥�27 was named a recipient of the NOAA Earnest F.听Hollings听Undergraduate Scholarship this spring, earning her a two-year academic award of $9,500 per year and a 10-week full-time, paid summer internship at a NOAA facility during the summer.

Bousquet is the fifth UNH student to receive the Hollings scholarship in the last four years.

鈥淚 feel like the Hollings Scholarship is one of the ultimate honors and opportunities in marine biology, and that opportunity is one I just had to try for,鈥� Bousquet says. 鈥淚 feel so honored to have received this scholarship. It feels like everything I鈥檝e been working toward and all the energy and commitment I鈥檝e put into things have paid off.鈥�

Bousquet plans to pursue a Ph.D. following her time at UNH and hopes to build a career conducting research, ideally 鈥渟tudying and appreciating the ocean.鈥� She doesn鈥檛 know the location of her NOAA internship yet but is hopeful she鈥檒l be able to combine her interests in parasites (which she鈥檚 been studying for approximately two years) and ocean plastic pollution to investigate microplastic presence in macro and micro-parasites.

She says she is 鈥渙pen to anything鈥� in regard to the internship opportunity but did note that 鈥渄oing an internship with NOAA Fisheries in Alaska could be super cool.鈥�

The Gorham, New Hampshire, native and marine, estuarine and freshwater biology major (with a dance minor) has done research at the Isle of Shoals but has otherwise only conducted research in an academic setting, so she鈥檚 looking forward to the opportunity to branch out and undertake some new experiences.

鈥淎s part of this experience, I will be able to meet so many new people and make numerous new connections, and the science world is all about having connections,鈥� Bousquet, an Honors College student at UNH,听says.

Beyond the research and networking opportunities, Bousquet is viewing the Hollings experience as a way to gauge whether government research is the right path for her after she obtains a Ph.D. Regardless of the specific direction she takes, though, the scholarship is an exciting first step on a path to the career she envisions for herself.

鈥淚 want to keep studying and appreciating the ocean and make a positive impact on the environment, and I feel like NOAA is a pretty good place for that.鈥�

Interested in pursuing the听Hollings Scholarship? Learn more about this and other opportunities available through the听Office of National Fellowships.