UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Dori Campbell, Penn State Cooperative Extension educator in Westmoreland County, received the 2007 Bell Scholarship in Family and Consumer Science at the recent fall breakfast of the Pennsylvania Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (PEAFCS).

The $1,000 scholarship, which honors professor emerita Helen Bell, provides financial assistance to an extension employee enrolled in a graduate program or taking graduate courses that will improve extension programs for Pennsylvania families.

Campbell has worked with Penn State Cooperative Extension since August 2000, providing leadership for the development, implementation and evaluation of educational programs in nutrition, health and food safety. Her priority areas include diet and health throughout the life cycle, food and nutrition decisions for youth, and food safety education for families and food-service workers.

Programs that she has offered to the community include Serv Safe, Strong Women, Family Fitness, Cooking for Crowds and On the Road to Living Well with Diabetes.

Currently, Campbell is a graduate degree candidate in Food and Nutrition at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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Writer: Mike Mucci

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