Whitefish PEO sponsors Scholar Award winner

Maya Daurio, a student in anthropology at the University of British Columbia, is one of 110 doctoral students in the U. S. and Canada selected to receive a $25,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was sponsored by Chapter D of Whitefish.

Daurio is the daughter of Jane Abbott of Santa Fe, N.M., and John Daurio of Lafayette, Colo. She is a 2009 graduate of the University of Montana, where she was the recipient of Phi Kappa Phi and Harold Bockemuehl scholarships. She is currently both a Vanier and UBC Public Scholar.

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 Jan. 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.