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ESP Spring 2025 Award Ceremony

The Department of Environmental Science and Policy is proud to announce our student award winners of academic year 2024-25. The award ceremony will take place on May 16, 2025 from 10:30-11:30am in Johnson Center Meeting Room E.

 

Graduate Student Awards

Best PhD Dissertation Award: Jordan Sims 
Greatest Impact Award: Ren Montano 
Exceptional Environmental Science and Policy Graduate Student Teacher Award: Daya Hall-Stratton 
The Averett Tombes Award: Sydney Brown 
Best MS Thesis/Project Award: Jason Motley 

 

2025 Dr. Richard Groover Scholarship Awards 

Jose Meneses Montano, Chloe Fowler, Timothy Klopfer 

 

Outstanding Undergraduate Student Awards 

in Conservation: Jessica Winey 
in Ecological Science: Dylan Raney 
in Human and Ecosystem Response to Climate Change: Julia Frost 
in Marine, Estuarine and Freshwater Ecosystems: Emma McDonald 
in Conservation & Management: Chloe Fowler 
 
 

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