Melanie Subramanian wins Davis Projects for Peace Prize
4/7/2010
Melanie Subramanian has won the Davis Projects for Peace Prize for her project, “Promoting Primate Welfare & Public Health”. Melanie plans to implement a primate conservation education outreach program that is based on the principles of conservation medicine.
She will be working at theTacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, based near Freetown in Sierra Leone.
Davis Projects for Peace is an initiative for all students at the Davis United World College Scholars Program partner schools to design their own grassroots projects for peace that they themselves will implement anywhere in the world during the summer of 2010. Through a competition on over 90 campuses, projects will be selected for funding at $10,000 each.
www.davisprojectsforpeace.org/projects/2010/374pro.pdf