Zoo and Aquarium Science Scholars

动物园和水族馆科学（ZAS）学者项目将向15至20名完成第一年学业的有学术天赋、经济困难的学生颁发奖学金。ZAS项目将严格的课堂课程与广泛的合作学习经验相结合，并包括在大一之后的夏季进行的320小时实习。奖学金也提供给新录取的符合条件的学生，以支付第一学期所需的费用，以消除学生进入该项目的障碍。在三年的时间里，该项目录取了70名学生，其中60名是女性。因此，ZAS计划正在增加水族馆科学领域代表性不足的学生的数量。同样值得注意的是，该计划的毕业生教导数百名公民，地球的生物资源是当代和后代人类的财富，维持我们的生物资源为人类提供必要的经济、环境、美学和文化利益。

The Zoo and Aquarium Sciences (ZAS) Scholars project is awarding scholarships to 15 to 20 academically talented, financially needy students who have completed their first year of studies. The ZAS program combines a rigorous classroom curriculum with extensive cooperative learning experiences and includes a 320-hour internship that takes place the summer after the freshman year. Scholarships are also being provided to newly admitted eligible students for first semester required costs to remove this barrier for student entrance into the program. Of the 70 students admitted into the program over a period of 3 years, 60 have been female. Thus, the ZAS program is increasing the number of underrepresented students in the field of aquarium science. It is also noteworthy that program graduates teach hundreds of citizens that the earth's living resources are a treasure for current and future generations of humankind and that sustaining our living resources provide essential economic, environmental, aesthetic, and cultural benefits to humanity.