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

Landscape Architecture

The ASLA Certificates of Honor and Merit
These certificates are given by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) to outstanding students who have demonstrated the highest level of scholarship and accomplishment in skills related to the art and technology of Landscape Architecture.
Rebecca A. Patrick
Karen Verpeet

Alice and Jessie Bourquin Memorial Scholarship
This award, established by the family and friends of the Bourquins, is given to a female student for the purpose of further study and related travel in the field of landscape architecture.
Lisa I. Bobrowski

The William and Mable Jackson Scholarship
Established by Pat Jackson and Carol Sullivan as an endowed scholarship to the Landscape Architecture (LA) program, this scholarship enables LA students to pursue degree-related travel to observe first hand how other cultures use and protect the land and design their environments.
Christopher P. Charles

The Landscape Architecture Alumni Award
This award was established by alumni and friends of Landscape Architecture. It recognizes students with the greatest potential for original and imaginative work.
Gregory Wade De Vries
Sadahisa Kato

The Landscape Architecture Faculty Prize
Established by the faculty of Landscape Architecture, this prize is presented to the student demonstrating the greatest potential to perform comprehensive professional work. The prize is symbolic of dedication to high standards of quality and service.
Joanna M. Paine

The Russel A. Pelton Prize
This prize is awarded to the Landscape Architecture student who has demonstrated the most outstanding knowledge, interest, and sensitivity to plants and their use in landscape design.
Heather D. Kieweg

The Kenneth J. and Shirley Polakowski Landscape Architecture Scholarship
This award was established for graduate students in the Landscape Architecture Program. Students are chosen based on leadership in the U-M Student Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architecture, previous degrees from Michigan State University, and/or financial need.
Suzan L. Campbell
Christopher P. Charles
Christopher J. Cox
Jessica A. Nelson
Jurgita Tamutyte
Lori S. Tuchman

The Barbra Rotvig Memorial Scholarship
This scholarship was established in memory of Barbara Rotvig and is awarded to a student who shows promise for creative work.
Angela M. Bumpus

The Ray Marshall Rowe Memorial Award
This award was established to recognize the student who shows the most promise in graphic presentation.
John R. Taylor

The Sigma Lambda Society
The Sigma Lambda Alpha Society recognizes students who have shown marked ability in the study and practice of landscape architecture and who in their work seek to promote wise land use.
Lisa I. Bobrowski
Angela M. Bumpus
Christopher J. Cox
Gregory Wade De Vries
Abigail M. Myers

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Resource Ecology & Management

The Federated Garden Clubs of Michigan Scholarship
This scholarship is awarded to a student pursuing a degree in resource ecology and management.
Jeremy K. Moghtader

The Fishery Alumni Memorial Fund
This award stems from an endowment fund originated by Professor Karl F. Lagler. It is awarded to the outstanding scholar in a fisheries program—based on achievement and research promise.
Jennifer Opdyke Wilhelm
Mahya G. Wood

The Samuel A. Graham Award
This award is presented to graduate students in forest biology who both have demonstrated outstanding scholarship and have shown superior capability in writing—as judged by the terrestrial ecology faculty. One award is given to a student pursuing a Master of Science in resource ecology and management; another award is given to a Ph.D. student during the final writing and defense stages of his/her dissertation.
Erin M. Thompson (MS)
Wayne S. Walker (PhD)

The Jeffery Lund Forest Ecology Award
This award is given to the outstanding forest or plant ecology Ph.D. student who demonstrates academic excellence, research capability, and professional promise.
Wayne S. Walker

The Donald M. Matthews Award
Established to honor the memory of Professor Donald M. Matthews, who taught in the field of forest management, this award is given to the most promising student in the field.
Laura J. Kearns

The Allen Schultz Memorial Award
This award is given to an outstanding undergraduate or graduate student in wildlife management. It provides a one-year membership to a society of the recipient’s choice.
Alaine F. Camfield

The Terrestrial Ecosystems Faculty Award
This special award is given to a student in the terrestrial ecosystems program for contributions to the program that are not specifically covered by other awards.
Christine A. Geddes
John E. Hassett

The Howard M. Wight Memorial Award
This award honors the memory of Professor Howard M. Wight, and is given to a student in wildlife ecology who possesses high scholarship and prospects of accomplishment in this field.
Catherine M. O’Connor

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Resource Policy and Behavior

The Ayers Brinser Award
This prize is awarded to a doctoral student who has shown particular excellence in the study of natural resource policy and management. It is given in recognition of academic achievement and professional promise.
Matthew J. Kotchen

The Stanley A. Cain Award
Established in 1977, this prize is awarded to a master’s student who has shown particular excellence in the study of natural resource policy and management.
David J. Chadwick

The Lyle E. Craine Undergraduate Award
This prize is awarded to an undergraduate student who has shown particular excellence in the study of natural resource policy and management.
Erin R. Haddix

The Federated Garden Clubs of Michigan Scholarship
This scholarship is awarded to a student or students pursuing a degree in environmental education.
Mary Adelzadeh
Amanda M. Edmonds
Laurianne J. Hannan

The Joseph L. Sax Fellow Award
This award was established by resource policy faculty to recognize Law Professor Joseph Sax for his important contributions to environmental law. The recipient is an outstanding student enrolled in or recently graduated from the joint Law School and School of Natural Resources & Environment program or a law graduate currently enrolled in or recently graduated from SNRE.
Stephen J. Higgs

The William B. Stapp Award for Excellence
This award, established in 1993 by the faculty in the field of behavior, honors the lifetime of work and leadership that Professor William (Bill) Stapp gave to environmental education. The award recognizes outstanding leadership and excellence in the study of environmental education.
Amy L. Higgs

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School Wide

The Alumni War Memorial Award
Established in 1948 by the Michigan Natural Resources Society, this award honors University of Michigan foresters who lost their lives in the service of their country. The award is given to the undergraduate student in the School selected for outstanding performance in scholarship, leadership, and personal qualifications.
Martha R. Yocum

The Jeannine Boukai Award
This award is made annually to a female sophomore student in the School of Natural Resources & Environment who demonstrates interest in the maintenance of environmental quality and who has the most outstanding academic record after three semesters of full-time enrollment in the University of Michigan.
Alison M. Gillette

The Samuel Trask Dana Award
This award is in recognition of founding Dean Samuel Trask Dana’s outstanding contributions in the field of resource management and conservation. It is awarded annually to undergraduate and/or graduate students in the School of Natural Resources & Environment who are judged most outstanding on the basis of scholarship and service.
Michelle A. Martin
Stanley J. Szwalek III

The Eugene and Emily Grant Scholarship Award
This award was established to assist SNRE students who are non-residents of Michigan. This scholarship provides funding to students who will contribute to the conservation and protection of the environment, demonstrate leadership, and are likely to have a career-long impact.
Seth A. Epstein

The Karl Kidder Scholarship
This scholarship is awarded to a Michigan-born student who shows both academic promise and financial need.
Meghan C. Cauzillo

The Nanette R. Lacross Memorial Award
This award honors the memory of Nanette R. LaCross and is given to a female School of Natural Resources & Environment student who is affiliated with the University of Michigan’s Nichols Arboretum.
Katherine N. Irvine

The Justin W. Leonard Award
This award is given to the senior student with superior academic credentials who is judged to have the greatest promise for leadership in the wise use of natural resources through the integration of natural and social sciences.
Erica C. Myers

The Alvan Macauley Scholarship
These scholarships are awarded in the winter term to graduate students whose first term in the School of Natural Resources & Environment was the previous fall. Recipients must have earned a grade point average of A or better for nine or more hours of graded coursework.
Nicholas S. Cucinelli
Curtis L. Davidson
Elizabeth A. Hamilton
Leah A. Katz
Christopher W. Scheuer

The Peter C. Mertz Scholarship
This award is given to an undergraduate who, in the words of the sponsor, “emulates the spirit of John Muir, expresses a joie de vivre, and has a serious frame of mind that is never devoid of a sense of humor.”
Joseph T. Mascaro

Charles Lathrop Pack Foundation Prize in Forestry
This award is made annually to one undergraduate student and one graduate student in natural resources who writes the best essay, as endorsed by the instructor, on a forestry-related topic as part of a class-wide assignment.
Danielle C. Osborn (undergraduate)

The Superior Teaching Award
Established in 1993, this annual award is made to graduate students in each concentration area of the School of Natural Resources & Environment. The awards recognize outstanding contributions to teaching during the current academic year.
Rebecca A. Patrick (Landscape Architecture)
Karen Verpeet (Landscape Architecture)
Kara A. Roggenkamp (Landscape Architecture)
Dana M. Infante (Resource Ecology & Management)
Emma Hutchinson (Resource Policy & Behavior)

Woman's National Farm and garden Association Scholarship - Ann Arbor Branch
This scholarship covers part of the resident tuition for a term of enrollment in SNRE.
Abigail M. Myers

The Professor Ernest A.H. Woodman Scholarship
This award is presented to a SNRE undergraduate student with a major in forestry, wildlife, or a related resource-based management area. The student has demonstrated an interest and an ability in administration of natural resources and has shown leadership in student activities centered in the School.
Shelley K. Gladwin

The Xi Sigma Pi Junior Award
Established in 1959 by the Upsilon Chapter of Xi Sigma Pi, this award recognizes the junior undergraduate student who has attained the highest scholastic average during his/her first five terms at the University of Michigan.
Jason A. Roth

The 3M Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Industrial Ecology
This award was established to honor the memory of Thomas W. Zosel, Manager of Environmental Initiatives for the 3M Corporation, who was instrumental in launching the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan. This year, the award is given to members of the master’s project entitled “University of Michigan Sustainability Assessment and Report.” The project was advised by SNRE faculty members Jonathan Bulkley and Gregory Keoleian.
Sandra I. Rodriguez
Matthew S. Roman
Samantha Sturhahn
Elizabeth H. Terry

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Recruitment

The Carleton-McCarron Forestry Scholarship
This scholarship is designated to support graduate students pursuing a forestry-related curriculum. This award has been applied to the recipient’s 2002-2003 tuition/cost of attendance.
Elizabeth M. Severtson

The Lyle E. Craine Graduate Scholarship
Established to support new graduate students concentrating in environmental policy or management, this award honors individuals with broad vision as well as practical experience in the manner exemplified by the life and career of Dr. Stanley A. Cain, the School’s first professor of Conservation.
Emily N. Maxwell

The Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship
These fellowships provide tuition assistance to selected master’s students who demonstrate unusual promise as future environmental leaders. The award provides tuition assistance for both Michigan residents and non-Michigan residents. In addition, a stipend is made available to each recipient for an internship/research opportunity.
2001-2003
Katia R. Aviles-Vazquez
Lisa I. Bobrowski
David J. Chadwick
Stephen J. Higgs
Jeremy K. Moghtader
Melinda A. Murch
Joseph G. Short
2002-2004
Wendel M. Adams
Elizabeth A. Hamilton
Robert M. Heiser
Emily N. Maxwell
Mary Adelzadeh
Channaly S. Oum
Nathaniel G. Gillespie
Beth A. Wilson

The Center for the Education of Woman / Ford Motor Company Fellowships
These fellowships are awarded to female graduate students admitted to master’s programs in the Business School, College of Engineering, and School of Natural Resources & Environment. The nominating committees look for evidence of academic excellence, capacity for intellectual growth, clarity of scholarly and professional goals, and potential to make a contribution.
Gretchen G. Alexander
Susan L. Dieterlen
Emily N. Maxwell

The Dean Gorham Fellowship
This fellowship by SNRE alumnus Robert Kirby, is awarded to an incoming Resource Ecology and Management graduate student interested in working with faculty on ecosystem-scale questions.
Peter Z. Acuff

The Allan Hirsch Memorial Native American Scholarship
Established by his family, friends, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to honor the memory of Allan Hirsch, this scholarship is awarded to a Native American student pursuing a degree program in the fields of fisheries and wildlife ecology and conservation, natural resource policy and administration, or ecology.
Mary Adelzadeh
Thomas J. Sweeney

The David P. Mans and Patricia Z. Spector Scholarship
This scholarship provides support for tuition and related expenses for graduate students pursuing dual degrees in the field of Resource and Environmental Economics through SNRE and the College of Literature, Science & Arts. The donors established this endowed scholarship fund to provide graduate students in economics with the financial resources necessary to complete additional natural resource studies in SNRE.
Martin D. Heintzelman
Matthew J. Kotchen

The Olive V. Scholz Scholarship
This scholarship was established primarily, but not exclusively, for women students in the landscape architecture degree program.
Abigail M. Myers

The George R. Stabler Forestry Scholarship
Established in 1980, this scholarship is designated to support graduate students interested in pursuing a forestry-related curriculum.
Elizabeth M. Severtson

The Weyerhaeuser Fellowship Award
These fellowships were established by the Weyerhaeuser Company, primarily to support Corporate and Environmental Management Program (CEMP) students during the three years of their dual-degree program between SNRE and the Business School. This award honors distinguished alumni of the University of Michigan and Weyerhaeuser Company, as well as the substantive areas to which each contributed to the Company.
Monique J. Barry

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SNRE Student Government

Outstanding Teaching Awards
These awards were established by the student governing board to recognize teaching excellence, and are determined by the students of the School of Natural Resources & Environment. In order to recognize the many outstanding teachers in the School, no one may receive this award two years in a row.
Julia M. Wondolleck, Professor
David J. Chadwick, Graduate Student Instructor

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SNRE Undergraduate Honors Program

The School of Natural Resources & Environment’s Honors Program gives advanced undergraduate students an opportunity to conduct original research under the guidance of one or more faculty advisors. The program is open to SNRE students who have maintained a minimum grade point average of 3.5 and are in good academic standing. Students accepted into the program participate in a one term Junior Honors Seminar and a two-term Senior Honors Seminar. The culmination of the Honors Program is the completion of an Honors Thesis and a public presentation of each student’s research.
Bryan D. Emmett
Shelley K. Gladwin
Erin R. Haddix
Michelle Lin
Michelle A. Martin
Joseph T. Mascaro
Erica C. Myers
Karla L. Schaffer
Martha R. Yocum
Elise F. Zipkin

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