Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise announces student scholarship awards

The Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise in Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is pleased to announce the following students who received scholarship awards for the upcoming academic year.

Reagan Boyd, an incoming freshman from Topsfield, Massachusetts, was named a Virginia Tech Stamps Scholar. Boyd is majoring in nutrition and dietetics will be living in the Honors Residential Commons. She is the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise’s first Stamps Scholar.

Stamps Scholars are chosen based on strong leadership potential, academic merit, and exceptional character. They receive four-year, merit-based scholarships covering tuition, fees, room, and board, as well as a generous enrichment fund for experiential learning opportunities, including internships or study abroad. Stamps Scholars live in student-led Honors communities with other high-achieving peers pursuing rigorous courses of study, service, and personal development. 

Sean Burnett, of Blacksburg, Virginia, was awarded three graduate student scholarships in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences that recognize academic achievement and financial need. They are the Watkins Family Scholarship, the Celeste W. Reynolds Graduate Scholarship, and the Cyrus McCormick Scholarship. Burnett completed his bachelor’s degree in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise in May and is now pursuing a master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics starting this summer. He is also the recipient of a 2024 CALS Outstanding Transfer Student Award.

Nadeen Al-Qudah, of Blacksburg, Virginia, and Mary Looney of Cedar Bluff, Virginia, are both recipients of the 2024-2025 Brenda Harmon Rohe Dietetic Scholarship. Given by the Rohe family in honor of Brenda Rohe, a 1966 graduate or the department, the scholarship supports rising junior or senior dietetics majors from southwest Virginia or North Carolina who demonstrate academic achievement, extracurricular leadership, community service, and talent for a career in dietetics. Both Al-Qudah and Looney are students in the accelerated B.S./M.S. degree program.

Scholarship programs offered by the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise and by Virginia Tech are part of the Virginia Tech Advantage – a commitment to ensuring that all students, regardless of income, have access to the university’s transformational learning and enrichment opportunities.