Megan Capobianco of Clementon, NJ, Earns Full Scholarship to Widener University through Army ROTC

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Megan Capobianco receives a full scholarship to Widener University through Army ROTC.

CHESTER, PA (04/27/2012)(readMedia)-- Megan Capobianco of Clementon, N.J., was awarded a three-year full tuition and fees Army ROTC scholarship to attend Widener University based on her first year performance as a cadet in the university's Freedom Battalion. Capobianco recently completed her freshman year at Widener, where she is majoring in biology.

The Army ROTC scholarship will also provide Capobianco with $1,200 per year for books and a monthly stipend of $350-500. Widener will provide her with free room and board on top of the scholarship. In accepting this scholarship, Capobianco will join 15 additional Widener cadets who will be under full scholarship for the 2012-13 academic year.

Capobianco earned the scholarship based on her grade point average and score on the Army Physical Fitness Test, which is composed of two minutes of push-ups, two minutes of sit-ups and a two-mile run.

In addition to Army ROTC, Capobianco is involved at Widener as a member of the varsity soccer and lacrosse teams and the intramural soccer and volleyball teams. She is a member of Alpha Chi Sigma, the professional chemistry fraternity; the American Chemical Society; and the Widener Biological Society.

Capobianco is also this year's winner of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association's $500 scholarship.

Widener is the host institution for ROTC activity at the Abington and Brandywine campuses of Pennsylvania State University, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Immaculata University, Neumann University, Villanova University and West Chester University of Pennsylvania. These partnerships help make Widener's Reserve Officers' Training Corps program one of the largest in the region.

Widener University is a private, metropolitan university that connects curricula to social issues through civic engagement. Dynamic teaching, active scholarship, personal attention, and experiential learning are key components of the Widener experience. A comprehensive doctorate-granting university, Widener is comprised of eight schools and colleges that offer liberal arts and sciences, professional and pre-professional curricula leading to associate, baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees. The university's campuses in Chester, Exton, and Harrisburg, Pa., and Wilmington, Del., serve some 6,700 students. Visit the university website, www.widener.edu.

Photo: From left, Col. Timothy Kehoe, commander of the 17th Fires Brigade at Fort Lewis, Wash., presents the scholarship check to Capobianco with Lt. Col. Donald J. McDannald, commander of the Freedom Battalion and professor of military science at Widener.