$20,000: College student nominated by New Canaan organization Staff FacebookTwitterEmail Malena Rice, who is a Ph.D. student, and also an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in Astronomy at Yale University in New Haven, is also one of 100 doctoral students within the U.S. and Canada, who has been selected to receive a prestigious $20,000 P.E.O. Scholar Award from the P.E.O., (Philanthropic Educational Organization,) Sisterhood.P.E.O Sisterhood / Contributed photo Malena Rice, a Ph.D. student, and NSF Graduate Research Fellow in Astronomy at Yale University, is one of 100 doctoral students within the U.S. and Canada who has been selected to receive a $20,000 P.E.O. Scholar Award from the P.E.O., (Philanthropic Educational Organization,) Sisterhood.