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WDA Student Scholarship/Award Recognition
WDA Scholarship Information for Applicants

 

Student Scholarship/Award Recognition

2010 WDA Scholarships Recipients

 

2010 ADA/WDA Outstanding Student Award
Alyssa Mannering
DPD Program
UW - Green Bay
2010 ADA/WDA Outstanding Student Award
Stephanie Cronin
DI Program
UW Hospitals & Clinics
   
Ada B. Lothe Student Grant
Karen Lienau Peterson
UW Madison
 
WDA Dietetic Technician Scholarship
Not awarded for 2010

WDA Part-Time Graduate Scholarship
Not awarded for 2010

   
 
Full-time Graduate Scholarship
Colleen Barthel
UW Stout
WDA Undergraduate Scholarship
Moriah Keiper
Viterbo University
   


Scholarship Information for Applicants
Click here to obtain a WDA scholarship form (PDF) or in Word document
ADAF Scholarships

The American Dietetic Association Foundation offers numerous scholarships for dietetic students. 
Information on these opportunities can be obtained from your dietetic program advisor or can be
accessed on ADA's Scholarship website
WDA Scholarships

The Wisconsin Dietetic Association also awards scholarships, which include the following:

WDA Ada B. Lothe Student Grant -$1000.00
WDA WDA Undergraduate -$1000.0
WDA WDA Full Time Graduate -$1000.00
WDA WDA Part Time Graduate- $500.00
WDA WDA Dietetic Technician Scholarships- $500.00

Deadline for the Outstanding Dietetics Educator Award= January 4, 2011. Click here for information and form to complete.
Deadline for the Outstanding Students Award=February 15, 2011.Click here for information and form to complete.
Deadline for WDA Scholarship awards= February 15, 2011.
Click here to obtain a WDA scholarship form

The award/scholarship committee will consider all completed Outstanding Students & Scholarship application packets received by theFebruary 15, 2011 deadline. 
Please send all completed forms to the WDA Office.  For additional information or forms, please contact: wda@centurytel.net

Other Scholarships

BERNICE MATEICKA SCHOLARSHIP - (Note: this is NOT a WDA scholarship-see form for details)
Click here for Word document. Completed applications must be postmarked by February 15, 2011

PURPOSE: To aid students in pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in Dietetics, Food and Nutrition,
Institutional Food Service Management, Food Science, Nutritional Sciences, and Hotel and Restaurant Management.
AMOUNT:      $1,000.00 plus a complimentary one-year Wisconsin ASHFSA membership

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About the Wisconsin Dietetic Association

The Wisconsin Dietetic Association is the link to nutrition and health in Wisconsin. This professional organization promotes registered dietitians and dietetic technicians as the nutrition experts through membership, continuing education, and legislative activities.

Members specialize in a variety of nutrition services including: 

Weight Loss

  • Recommendations for losing weight safely
  • Diet pills and ins and outs of popular diets like weight watchers, atkins diet, zone diet, cabbage soup diet, low carbohydrate diet and others

Healthy Lifestyle Promotion

  • Optimum health, wellness, chronic disease management, soy nutrition, food guide pyramid, vegetarian diets

Women's Health

  • Osteoporosis treatment and prevention, healthy menopause

Diabetes

  • Development of diabetic diet meal plans, diabetes diets and diabetes recipes
  • Carbohydrate (carb) counting

Sports Nutrition

  • Training diets and menus

Heart Disease

  • Development of low cholesterol diet menus, low fat recipes and low cholesterol diets

Cancer Nutrition

  • Cancer diet, cancer prevention, eating tips for cancer treatment

Complementary Medicine

  • Complementary therapies that include vitamin and mineral supplementation, botanicals and functional foods as well as mind/body approaches

Critical Care

  • Specialized nutrition support and critical care nutrition