A scholarship has been set up in the memory of a University of Vermont student who was abducted and murdered earlier this year, said the family of victim Michelle Gardner-Quinn.
The scholarship will benefit UVM seniors interested in environmental studies, the same field that Gardner-Quinn was studying when she died, said her parents John-Charles and Diane Quinn.
“We’re working with the Development Office with an eye toward making the fund a permanent endowment,” John-Charles Quinn wrote.
About $17,000 in donations have been received, he said.
Gardner-Quinn, of Arlington, Va., was abducted, sexually assaulted and killed Oct. 7.
A 36-year-old Richmond man, Brian Rooney is being held without bail on charges of aggravated murder while awaiting trial.
Donations can be sent to: Michelle Gardner-Quinn Memorial Fund, University of Vermont, 411 Main St., Burlington, VT 05401.
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