Dean Bierbaum congratulating an award recipient.		SNRE students and their families sitting in the audience during the awards.

Landscape Architecture
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The ASLA Certificates of Honor and Merit
Clea Rome
Katya M. Podsiadlo

The Federated Garden Clubs of Michigan Scholarship
Gregory Wade DeVries
Amy Morrow

The William and Mable Jackson Scholarship
Gregory Wade DeVries

The William J. Johnson Prize
Christopher Cox
Sadahisa Kato
Stanley Szuralek III

The Landscape Architecture Alumni Award
Mimi Mather

The Russel A. Pelton Prize
David Pollock

The Kenneth J and Shirley Polakowski Landscape Architecture Scholarship
Jennifer Lawson
Sadahisa Kato
John Taylor [Bio unavailable]

The Barbra Rotvig Memorial Scholarship
Amy Morrow

The Ray Marshall Rowe Memorial Award
Karl Koto

The Sigma Lambda Society
Sadahisa Kato
Amy Morrow
Tamara Orlow
Rebecca Patrick
Karla Rogers
Kara Roggenkamp
Matthew Stone-Palmquist [Bio unavailable]
Stanley Szwalek III
John Taylor [Bio unavailable]
Karen Verpeet

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Resource Ecology & Management
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The Buffalo Award for Science and Nature
Pablo A. Nepomnaschy

The Fishery Alumni Memorial Fund
Sarah Kopplin [Bio unavailable]
Brian McKae [Bio unavailable]

The Federated Garden Clubs of Michigan Scholarship
Beth Hahn

The Samuel A. Graham Award
Ryan O'Connor
Misty McPhee

The Donald M. Matthews Award
Susan Frunchey

The Allen Schultz Memorial Award
Shannon Bouton

The Terrestrial Ecosystems Faculty Award
Kara Moore

The Xi Sigma Pi John Carow Award
Janelle Francis

The Howard M. Wight Memorial Award
Kari Jensen

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Resource Policy and Behavior
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The Behavior and Environment Award
Victoria "Torrey" McMillan

The Ayers Brinser Award
June Gin
Michael Shriberg

The Stanley A. Cain Award
Jon Kazmierski
David Phemister
Kathryn Schulz

The Cook Family Foundation Environmental Education Fellowship/Internship
Annie Schultz [Bio unavailable]

The Joseph L. Sax Fellow Award
Marisa Martin
Jennifer Lynn Morris

The Federated Garden Club of Michigan Scholarship
Victoria "Torrey" McMillan

The William B. Stapp Award for Excellence
Hannah Newhall

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School Wide
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The Alumni War Memorial Award
Janelle Francis

The Jeannine Boukai Award
Emily O'Donnell [Bio unavailable]

The Nanette R. Lacross Memorial Award
Tamara Orlow

The Karl Kidder Scholarship
Staci L. Harger

The Justin W. Leonard Award
Rebecca Meuninck

The Samuel Trask Dana Award
Maya Fischoff
Clea Rome

The Alvan Macauley Scholarship
Beth Hahn
Kathleen Mogelgaard
Ian Penn
Amy Higgs
Jeremy Moghtader
Andrea Walther

The Peter C. Mertz Scholarship
Eric Sokol

The Superior Teaching Award
LA - Katherine Davison
REM - Ephraim Zimmerman
RPB - Peter Wilshusen & Christina Yin

The Professor Ernest A.H. Woodman Scholarship
Cheryl Gregory

The 3M Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Industrial Ecology
David Gard

The Xi Sigma Pi Junior Award
Martha Youcm

Woman's National Farm and garden Association Scholarship - Ann Arbor Branch
Amanda Maria Edmonds

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Recruitment
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The Carleton-McCarron Forestry Scholarship
Anna Williams
Catherine (Cay) Yanca

The Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship
Jon Kazmierski
Laura Kearns
Megan Kram
Maggie Macdonald
Marisa Martin
David Phemister
Kara Roggenkamp
John Taylor [Bio Unavailable]
Karen Verpeet

The Center for the Education of Woman / Ford Motor Company Fellowships
Suzanne Campbell [Bio Unavailable]
Heather Kieweg [Bio Unavailable]
Kari Jensen
Melinda Murch

The Dean Gorham Fellowship
Dave Chadwick
Heather Kieweg [Bio Unavailable]

The Allan Hirsch Memorial Native American Scholarship
Nicholas Reo [Bio Unavailable]

The David P. Mans and Patricia Z. Spector Scholarship
Emma Hutchinson [Bio Unavailable]

The Sidney M. An Alice H. Quigley Scholarship
Nathan Adams [Bio Unavailable]

The George R. Stabler Forestry Scholarship
Anna Williams

The Wheeler Family Memorial Scholarship
Amy C. Burnicki
John E. Hassett
Kristine Crous
Holly Petrillo
Catherine (Cay) Yanca

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SNRE Student Government - Outstanding Teaching Awards
Steven R. Brechin, Professor

		Steve Brechin, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology here at The School of Natural Resources. He has been either author or co-editor of four books: Contested Nature: Power, Protected Areas and the Dispossessed - Promoting International Conservation with Justice in the 21st Century (with Peter Wilshusen, Crystal Fortwangler, and Patrick West) (In press, SUNY Press);
Planting Trees in the Developing World: Sociology of International Organizations (1997 Johns Hopkins Press); Population-Environment Dynamics: Ideas and Observations (with Gayl Ness and William Drake) (1993 University of Michigan Press), and Resident Peoples and National Parks: Social Dilemmas and Strategies in International Conservation (with Patrick West) (1991 University of Arizona Press). In 2001, Brechin was named to the World Commission on Parks and Protected Areas, the World Conservation Union, IUNC. Brechin also serves on the editorial board of Social Science Quarterly and was its consulting co-editor of a special issue on the environment and public policy issues. He has written extensively on cross-cultural and comparative environmental values and attitudes. With Professor Paul Mohai, Brechin is co- Principal Investigator of the 2002 Detroit Area Study as a part of a multi-year, multiple country comparative study of environmentalism as a global phenomenon. Prior to returning to Michigan in 1996, Brechin was a Senior Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University and Assistant Director of the Princeton Environmental Institute.

Matthew Dietz, Graduate Student Instructor

Matthew received his AB from Bowdoin College and his MS from the University of Montana. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, birding, fly-fishing, traveling, drawing, and reading. Mathew's areas of interest include a bird's behavioral response to anthropogenic disturbances, avian and biologic conservation, and habitat restoration. His career goals are to conduct ecological research, advocate in the public interest, and work in non-profit environmental conservation.

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American Association of University Women Scholar
Audrey Kay Werthan
"I was struck how intricately connected environmental problems were to these human tragedies," she says. Kay decided right there to dedicate her life to the environment. Her epiphany led her straight to the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, where she's now pursuing her bachelor's degree. Kay looks forward to joining the struggle for a healthy ecosystem begun by environmentalist before her who also worked for peace and justice.

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Margaret Dow Towsley Scholar
Barbara Lucas
During a career change, Barbara became an environmental activist. Her many accomplishments include creating the "3-R Infoline" in Royal Oak, Michigan, which residents could call for information about waste reduction, and the "3-R Challenge," an educational game used in Royal Oak schools. When her family moved to Rochester, Minnesota, Barbara worked to promote tree preservation and energy conservation. She secured a grant that focused on tree placement, planting, and stewardship in many new-immigrant and low-income neighborhoods. For her efforts, she was honored with the country's Environmental Achievement Award. "Barbara's comprehensive vision, intelligence, and thoroughness left our community a better place," writes one fellow activist. Upon her family's return to Michigan, Barbara once again immersed herself in environmental activities. She will pursue a master's degree in Resource Policy and Behavior at the School of Natural Resources and Environment, gaining skills and qualifications to become a more effective environmental educator.

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