The Trust Fund is a special endowment fund of the NRC. Founded in 1994 with a generous donation from Mr. Murray J. Fox, a founding and lifetime member of the NRC, its purpose is to support outstanding the college students who will become future environmental leaders.  Each year, students are chosen from schools in the cities where we hold the Congress & Expo to receive a scholarship from the Trust Fund. This year we are pleased to present three college students with $1,500 scholarships from the National Recycling Trust Fund. 

Jillian Adams is a freshman at Duquesne University majoring in Environmental Science. She graduated 3rd in her class at Moultonborough Academy in Moultonborough, New Hampshire in June of 2008. Jillian was a member of the National Honor Society her junior and senior year including and was president her senior year. She participated in the New Hampshire Youth Earth Summit: 10, 11, 12

Jennifer Lawrence is a senior in Civil Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University with a focus on carbon nanotubes. Jennifer is president of the campus affiliate of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the community service chair for the Society of Women Engineers. Jennifer is planning to go onto graduate school, with an interest in renewable energy.

Theresa Romanosky is an Environmental Studies senior minoring in Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. Following graduation, she intends to enter law school next fall with land use planning and endangered species protection as her field of interest. Theresa received a Morris K. Udall Honorable Mention in 2008, the Frazier Scholarship and Field Study Scholarship in 2007/2008. She has made the University of Pittsburgh’s

Dean's List for the past two years.