The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) will be awarding this year’s Richard T. Liddicoat (RTL) Scholarship to two individuals, Catrina Clifton of Kingman, Arizona, and Davina Romansky of Rochester, New York. The Scholarship supports GIA’s and Liddicoat’s mission of providing gemological education to students in need, by awarding full scholarships for the graduate gemologist diploma programme each year. %% Explaining her educational goals ahead, Clifton, presently a sales manager at Luchia’s Jewelry Gallery, said she wants to be known as “the most well-known custom jewellery designer in Mohave County.” She has completed the diamond programmes and is looking forward to begin the colored stones programme to earn her graduate gemologist diploma. %% Romansky, a bench jeweller at Jared’s Jewelers in Rochester and a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, is receiving a scholarship for the graduate gemologist programme. She has studied with several metal masters and jewellery craftsman in Italy and the U.S. and has exhibited her jewellery across the U.S. %% The RTL Scholarship Fund was formed by the GIA Alumni Association in 2003, as a respect and honor to Liddicoat, the Institute’s longtime president and chairman.