P.E.O. Sisterhood Scholar Award
SHIHUA BRAZILL HONORED WITH P.E.O. MERIT-BASED
SCHOLAR AWARD
Shihua Brazill, a Ph.D. student in Adult and Higher Education and Instructor of Record
for Multicultural Education at Montana State University, is one of 100 doctoral students in the U. S. and Canada selected to receive a $15,000
prestigious Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was sponsored by Chapter
CE of Bozeman, MT.
Shihua thanks her husband, parents, family, mentors, advisors, and friends for helping
make this honor possible. She is an M.S. graduate from Montana Tech, where she was
an adjunct faculty teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. She was a board member
and communications coordinator of Butte’s Maiwah Society and also an Office of the
Commissioner of Higher Education (OCHE) research fellow. Currently, she serves as
co-chair of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Graduate Student
Mentoring Committee. Her impressive list of scholarly accomplishments includes several
scholarly articles, numerous research presentations, and various funded grants and
awards.
The P.E.O. Scholar Awards were established in 1991 to provide substantial merit-based awards for women of the United States and Canada who are pursuing a doctoral-level degree at an accredited college or university. Scholar Awards recipients are a select group of women chosen for their high level of academic achievement and their potential for having a positive impact on society.
The P.E.O. Sisterhood, founded January 21, 1869, at Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant,
Iowa, is a philanthropic educational organization dedicated to supporting higher education
for women. There are approximately 6,000 local chapters in the United States and Canada
with nearly a quarter of a million active members.
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