Xinyu Lin, PIRE Undergraduate Researcher, receives BOLD Women’s Leadership Network Scholarship
Xinyu Lin, an undergraduate researcher on the PIRE project, has been selected as one of nine inaugural BOLD Scholars at the University of Connecticut. The BOLD Women’s Leadership Network – launched at five universities across the country led by female presidents who have demonstrated a commitment to collaboration, innovation, diversity, and inclusion – facilitates opportunities for young women leaders to utilize their unique identities and experiences to create positive social change. BOLD provides scholarship and fellowship funding, leadership programming, and connects Scholars with women faculty, staff, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and alumni through a strong inter-generational network. Xinyu will be conducting a leadership service project over the summer centered around her interests in environmental stewardship and addressing climate change.
Her work on PIRE will focus on the sustainability of water resources in Ethiopia. She plans to develop an integrated groundwater footprint of Ethiopia, under the mentorship of Dr. Zoi Dokou, which will present both the quality and the quantity of groundwater available for use and at the same time investigate barriers to water access, since Ethiopia has among the lowest access to clean water.
More information on the BOLD program is found here: https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/bold/
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Published: March 8, 2019