Community Highlights

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U-M School for Environment and Sustainability alum Nat Lichten (MS ’15) was named associate program officer for Great Lakes and Environment . Lichten, who has seven years of experience in watershed management, green infrastructure, and water and environmental research, will work with current

Congratulations to Isabella (Izzy) Juliet Shehab, a master’s student at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) who is the recipient of the Kenneth R. Brooks MLA Research Scholarship Award from the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF). She received a $5,000 award. Shehab is

The Students for SEAS Outstanding Teaching Awards were established by the student governing board in 1995 to recognize teaching excellence. This year's award recipients are Professor Kyle Whyte and graduate student advisor Malulani Castro. Students were asked to nominate professors and GSIs by

Thea Louis, a master’s student in the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, has been chosen for the inaugural cohort of Local Science Partners by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The Local Science Partners program “is designed to cement the place of science in decision-making by

Congratulations to Parth Vaishnav, who is one of fourteen U-M faculty members named 2022 Public Engagement Faculty Fellows (PEFF) by the Center for Academic Innovation. Vaishnav, SEAS assistant professor of environment and sustainability, will spend five weeks this spring in an intensive program

Four University of Michigan students have been named 2021-2023 Wyss Conservation Scholars. The Wyss Scholars Program for U.S. Conservation recognizes and supports future leaders in nonprofit or governmental land conservation in the United States. The program supports students at six universities and

Grand Rapids, Michigan, January 7, 2022 — At its recent annual conference, the Michigan Outdoor Writers Association (MOWA) awarded Claire Watts (M.S. Candidate 2022) its MOWA/Toyota “Let’s Go Places” Scholarship. Watts received $2,500 in support of her presentations at both the Ann Arbor School