Trout
Unlimited Chapters Award Scholarship to Clarion University Student
(8/29/11)
Alysha Cypher, a
Clarion University Biology major with minors in Chemistry and
Sustainability, has won the $1000 Trout Unlimited (TU) Scholarship
funded jointly by the Allegheny Mountain, Iron Furnace, and Oil Creek
chapters of TU. In addition to her coursework Ms. Cypher is active in
research and professional development. She was awarded undergraduate
research grants to conduct studies of fish behavior and physiology and
spent the summer of 2010 at the University of Akron in an internship
studying water pollution as a stress on fish. She
spent summer 2011 interning at Clarion University developing a model for
an online biology laboratory and researching the affects of heavy metals
on the growth and development of the american toad (Anaxyrus
americanus). Alysha is the president of the Clarion
University Chapter of The Society for Conservation Biology. She is
secretary and co-founder of the Center for Conservation Studies, a
non-profit cooperating with the Clarion-Limestone Area School District
to build an amphibian research and education center that will be the
only one of its kind in the world, is a member of The Wildlife Society,
and was co-founder of Clarion University’s Scuba Club. Applicants for
the TU Scholarship were evaluated based on academic achievement and a
commitment to the conservation of cold-water resources.

Clarion University
2011-2012 Trout Unlimited (TU) Scholarship winner Alysha Cypher (left)
from Cabot, Pennsylvania with Steven Harris, Department of Biology
representative for TU.