Smith authors book on climate change in law schools
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...
SEAS PhD students awarded Science for the Public Good grant
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 named 2024 Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
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.
2023-2025 Wyss Scholars Named
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...
Lisa DuRussel receives 2024 CELA Award
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...
Catalyst Grants awarded to SEAS faculty
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...
SEAS students selected as Dow Sustainability Fellows
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...
SEAS MLA student Kaia McKenney selected for the Landscape Architecture Foundation's scholarship-internship-mentorship program for BIPOC students
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 Banzhaf (B.S.F. '67) inducted into Wisconsin Forestry Hall of Fame
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...
Kyle Whyte invited to serve as Senior Fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows
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...
Clark awarded Environmental Council of the States Founders Award
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...
Ghimire named to AAG's 2023 Climate Change and Society Cohort
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...
PhD student Amy Zuckerwise awarded NASA fellowship
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...
Bierbaum receives Association for Environmental Health & Sciences Foundation Achievement Award
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...
Tom Lyon named 2023 World Sustainability Awardee
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...
Allan elected chair of U.S. Biosphere Network
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...
IGCB Research Fellow Cheyenne Lei receives bioenergy science award
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...
Nassauer receives landscape architecture lifetime achievement award
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).
MLA students honored in design competition
Brooke Bulmash and Vishnu Santosh Reddy Kusam, students in the University of Michigan School for the Environment and Sustainability’s Master of Landscape Architecture program, along with Alexis Farrell, Sai Saran Megha Parimi and Shravya Goteti of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban...
Wyss Conservation Scholars announced
Taylor Hopkins, Willy Pevec, Dana Pflughoeft and Carly Thompson are the 2022-2024 cohort of Wyss Conservation Scholars at the University of Michigan. The students were selected from the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) and the Law School in recognition of their future leadership in...
Graham Institute announces 2023 Dow Sustainability Fellows and Dow Distinguished Awards
The Dow Sustainability Fellows Program, administered by the Graham Sustainability Institute, will award over $800,000 in tuition and project funding in 2023. The funds will support more than 40 outstanding graduate students from 10 University of Michigan schools, colleges, and units, including the...
Society for Conservation Biology welcomes U-M chapter
The University of Michigan has become a new chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB). SCB is a global organization dedicated to facilitating, promoting and advancing the scientific study and conservation of biological diversity. “Our goal is to develop interdisciplinary knowledge...
PitE associate professor Sara Soderstrom's project receives award from the Graham Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Program
Congratulations to PitE associate professor Sara Soderstrom, whose project team has been awarded a $50,000 faculty research grant from the Graham Sustainability Institute's Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Program. The project is called "Distributed Business Models for Climate-Smart Commodities...
SEAS assistant professor Michael Craig wins IISE Energy Systems Division's Outstanding Young Investigator Award
Congratulations to U-M School for Environment and Sustainability assistant professor Michael Craig, who won the 2022 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Energy Systems Division's Outstanding Young Investigator Award! Each year, the award recognizes an IISE Energy Systems Division...
PitE associate professor Sara Soderstrom receives Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award
U-M Organizational Studies and Program in the Environment associate professor Sara Soderstrom has received a 2022 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award for her contributions to the development of a culturally and ethnically diverse U-M community. Established in 1996, the annual award is given by...