Community Highlights

Congratulations to Vianey Rueda, who was selected to participate in the 2025 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The fellowship is a full-time, hands-on training and educational program that...

Congratulations to SEAS Professor Pamela Jagger, who has been selected as a Wilson Center Fellow. As a fellow in residence, Jagger will work on a project entitled, "Weathering Africa’s Climate Traps.” The prestigious international competition offers 9-month residential fellowships to conduct...

Congratulations to Chandler Sachs, a SEAS PhD student affiliated with the Center for Sustainable Systems, for being awarded a Department of Defense (DoD) National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. The U.S. government fellowship was awarded through the Air Force Office of...

The Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) announced their 2024 scholarship winners, awarding $174,000 to 28 students. One of the awardees is SEAS MLA candidate Daniel Lim, who received $5,000 in the LAF Honor Scholarship for Inclusive Community Design category. The LAF scholarships recognize the...

Three University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) PhD students have been honored for their work. All are members of SEAS Associate Professor Bilal Butt’s Critical Environmental Geopolitics Research Group. Marlotte de Jong (MS ’18, PhD ’25) is the recipient of the National...

Congratulations to the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) Michigan Renewable Energy Development Initiative (MI REDI) master's capstone project team for receiving the American Planning Association Sustainable Communities Division's (APA SCD) Award for Excellence...

Tim Wallington, research specialist with the Center for Sustainable Systems, was appointed as a member of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP). The panel informs the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on matters arising from ozone depletion. The...

University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability Lecturer Kimberly Smith has authored a book, “ Making Climate Lawyers: Climate Change in American Law Schools, 1985-2020” (University Press of Kansas, 2024). The book explores “how American environmental law professors have addressed...

Chandler Sachs and Martha Christino, PhD students at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), have been awarded grants from the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Science for Public Good Fund. The fund supports projects focused on advocating for policy grounded in...

Sara Soderstrom, associate professor of environment and sustainability in the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and director of the Program in the Environment, is one of five U-M faculty members who have been named Arthur F. Thurnau Professors in recognition of their extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education.

Three University of Michigan students, including two from the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), have been named Wyss Conservation Scholars for 2023-2025. Funded by the Wyss Foundation, the program supports students at six universities who seek to become future leaders in nonprofit...

Congratulations to Lisa DuRussel (BS '02, MLA '06), an assistant professor of practice at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, who was named a 2024 award winner by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). DuRussel, one of 13 faculty and student...

A project focused on renewable energy deployment in Nepal and led by University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) researchers has been chosen as a Catalyst Grant recipient by the Graham Sustainability Institute. SEAS Professor Pam Jagger is the principal investigator and...

Six master's students from the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) have been selected as 2024 Dow Sustainability Fellows. They are among 32 students from 12 U-M schools and colleges who will receive tuition and funding to develop sustainability leadership. The...

The Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) announced the second cohort and finalists for LAF Ignite, their scholarship-internship-mentorship program for BIPOC students. One of the five awardees is SEAS MLA student Kaia McKenney The multi-year program provides participants with an annual $10,000...

William (Bill) Banzhaf (B.S.F. '67), was inducted into the Wisconsin Forestry Hall of Fame on October 11, 2023. Bill, who has served on the SEAS External Advisory Board since 2007, has worked in the field of forestry since graduating from SEAS in 1967. After graduation, Bill joined his father...

Congratulations to SEAS Professor Kyle Whyte, who has been invited to serve as a Senior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. The Society of Fellows is an interdisciplinary community in which postdoctoral fellows at the beginning of their careers are joined by senior fellows to share their...

The Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) has awarded Liesl Eichler Clark, U-M’s Director of Climate Action Engagement, with the 2023 ECOS Founders Award for exemplary past leadership of ECOS initiatives. The award recognizes the impacts of Clark's contributions while serving in Gov. Gretchen...

University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) Lecturer Rajiv Ghimire is one of 15 geographers from 11 states and the West Indies who were named as the American Association of Geographers’ first-ever cohort in the Elevate the Discipline program, which trains them to leverage...

Congratulations to Amy Zuckerwise, a PhD student at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), who was awarded a prestigious three-year Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship for her project, “Integrating Models of...

The International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy has announced that Rosina Bierbaum is this year's recipient of the Association for Environmental Health and Sciences Foundation Achievement Award. The award, which will be presented in October, is bestowed each year to individuals or...

The MDPI Sustainability Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2023 World Sustainability Award. Second place was awarded to Thomas P. Lyon, Dow Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce and Faculty Director of the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan. Lyon was awarded...

Jon Allan, academic and research program officer at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and advisor for the Obtawaing Biosphere Region, has been elected the new chair for the U.S. Biosphere Network (USBN). The USBN is made up of 28 internationally recognized areas...

Cheyenne Lei, a research fellow at the Institute for Global Change Biology at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, has received the 2023 Jennifer L. Reed Bioenergy Science Award from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC). The award honors Lei's...

Joan Nassauer, a Professor of Landscape Architecture at SEAS, has received the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA).