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— Puyallup High School and University of Notre Dame graduate Michael Poffenberger has been awarded a Rotary World Peace Fellowship by the trustees of The Rotary Foundation. The fellowship is one of only 50 granted annually for master’s degree programs at five different universities around the world.

The Rotary Club of Lakewood and Rotary District 5020 sponsored Poffenberger for the unique scholarship. For Poffenberger, this means advanced international opportunities in the area of peace and conflict resolution. He is expected to enroll in the Rotary Center for International Studies at the University of Queensland in Australia early in 2011, where he will be joined by nine other scholars from all over the world.

— Local engineering firm Parametrix hired Chuck Schott as a transportation engineer in the Sumner office. Schott has 20 years of experience in the design of civil and transportation projects in Western Washington. As a senior engineer, he will be focused primarily on managing transportation design projects for local agencies. Schott’s expertise is in the area of roadway, highway and interchange analysis and design.

Previously, Schott worked for a local consulting firm and was involved with a variety of local projects including First Avenue South roadway and drainage improvements in Burien, Stewart Heights Park upgrades and accessibility improvements in Tacoma, the Seattle Neighborhood Street Fund sidewalk planning and design in Seattle and the State Route 167 High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes.