Putney native Miles Schelling awarded Davis Projects for Peace grant

2016 May 20

Miles Schelling of Putney, Vt., has been awarded a Davis Projects for Peace grant to start an after-school program in a remote Himalayan village. The program will provide children in Dunagiri, India, with a supplemental arts, music and environmental education.

Schelling, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Schelling of Putney, Vt., is a 2012 graduate of Northfield Mount Hermon School. He is majoring in mathematics at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

Using art and music activities inspired by the Himalayan landscape, the program aims to "create individual and community transformation that will foster peace in this rural village."

Projects for Peace provides $10,000 grants to aspiring undergraduates attending member institutions of the Davis United World College Scholar Program. These students propose sustainable projects around the world that promote peace and address the root causes of conflict.

Bates is internationally recognized as a leading college of the liberal arts, attracting 2,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world. Since 1855, Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community.

With a commitment to affordability, Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender, race, religion or national origin. Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action, Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world.