Elizabeth F. Dionne, a 2004 graduate of Oak Hill High School in Wales, a senior at the University of Maine in Orono majoring in wildlife ecology, was awarded the 2007 New England Outdoor Writers Scholarship at the 65th annual writers conference in Worcester, Mass. One student is nominated from each of the six land grant schools in New England. She was nominated by V. Paul and Diane Reynolds.

On April 25 Dionne was awarded the Malcolm W. Coulter Wildlife Scholarship by the Wildlife Ecology Scholarship Committee at UMO.

A member of the Society for Conservation Biology and the Student Chapter of the Wildlife Society, she has considerable field work experience on collecting data in the Maine north woods on American Marten, owls and a variety of small mammals.

This summer, she is doing tern research, endangered and protected species, on Metinic Island, a Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge. Dionne maintains dean’s list status at UMO. She is the daughter of Maurice and Rita Dionne of Wales and granddaughter of Maurice and Bertha Dionne of Lewiston.