Awards & Acknowledgements from this quarter include Dennis L. Hartmann’s election into the National Academy of Sciences, the Climate Change Video Contest winners, and the naming of the College’s 2016-2017 scholarship recipients, and much more!
On May 11 at our Spring Celebration event, we honored all 2015-2016 College of the Environment Award winners. Big congratulations to Aquatic and Fishery Sciences’ Kathryn Stout, Lorenz Hauser, and Nirupam Nigam, Environmental and Forest Sciences’ Chang Dou, Josh Lawler, and Isabel Carrera Zamanillo, Earth and Space Sciences’ Brad Markle and Robert Winglee, and Marine and Environmental Affairs’ Tom Leschine.
Congrats to all of the UW Environment scholarship recipients for the 2016-2017 academic year.
UW’s Jerry Franklin, a professor with the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, was honored by the Pinchot Institute for Conservation for a lifetime of work in integrating ecological and economic values into forestry.
Kudos to Atmospheric Sciences’ Dennis L. Hartmann. He is among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates recently elected as fellows of the National Academy of Sciences.
Five students from UW Environment were included in the inaugural Husky 100 class, including Laurel J. James, Leah Litwak, Sierra Kross, Brian Tracey, and Linnea McCann. Nice work!
Cheers to the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs’ Stacia Dreyer. She was awarded the 2016 Postdoc Mentoring Award by UW Postdoctoral Affairs.
Congratulations to this year’s Climate Change Video Contest winners!
The College of the Environment recently earned the top spot on the Nature Index’s 2016 list of Earth and environmental sciences! The index is a database of author affiliation information collated from research articles published in an independently selected group of 68 high-quality science journals.
Congratulations to Ray Hilborn—the professor of aquatic and fishery sciences was recently selected as the 2016-2017 University Faculty Lecturer by UW President Ana Mari Cauce and Interim Provost and Executive Vice President Jerry Baldasty.
Additionally, Hilborn received the 2016 International Fisheries Science Prize at the World Fisheries Congress in Busan, South Korea.
Kudos to Environmental and Forest Sciences Jorge Tomasevic, who recently received a 2016 UW Award of Excellence for his achievements in teaching, mentoring, public service, and staff support.
The Applied Physics Laboratory’s Barbara Purington also won a 2016 UW Award of Excellence for Distinguished Teaching.
Cheers to Aquatic and Fishery Sciences’ students Griffin Hoins and Samantha Murphy who were both recently awarded the esteemed Bonderman Travel Fellowship.
Well done, AMNO & CO! The local ROV team with ties to UW Environment was recently invited to attend the prestigious White House Science Fair.
