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2026 ESP Department Student Award Winners

The Department of Environmental Science and Policy congratulates all our student award winners, as well as all our students who are graduating this May. The Department is proud of all of our undergraduate and graduate students who have worked so hard and we wish them well on their future paths.  Awardees will be honored during a ceremony to be held on May 14, 2026.

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UNDEGRADUATE AWARD WINNERS by major concentration

  • Kennedy T. Wood, Conservation
  • Keegan B. Philips, Ecological Science
  • Tam T. Tran, Environmental Health
  • Breanna Deeds, Wildlife Conservation and Management
  • Rowayn E. Heagney, Human and Ecological Responses to Climate Change
  • Katia E. Holguin, Marine, Estuarine, and Freshwater Ecology

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GRADUATE AWARD WINNERS in the categories listed

  • Environmental Science and Policy Department Best PhD Dissertation Award – Lex Berger
  • Environmental Science and Policy Department Best MS Thesis Award – Jose Meneses
  • Exceptional Environmental Science and Policy Graduate Student Teacher Award – Colin Chadduck
  • Environmental Science and Policy Department Graduate Student Greatest Impact Award – Colin Chadduck
  • Environmental Science and Policy Department Averett Tombes Award – Bennett Drane

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