| Awards and Honors

College of the Environment 2024-25 Dean’s Office Scholarships awarded to 8 ESS students

Five ESS undergraduate students and three graduate students have been awarded scholarship funding for the 2024-25 College of the Environment Dean’s Office scholarships. The competition for these funds increases each year as more and more students apply, so winning these awards is a significant achievement!

Please join us in congratulating these accomplished ESS students!

Del Rio Endowed Environmental Studies Scholarship

The Del Rio Family Foundation established the Del Rio Endowed Scholarship Fund for Environmental Studies to encourage and support students with an interest in the environment who are participating in the Educational Opportunity Program, which promotes academic success and graduation for under-represented ethnic minority, economically disadvantaged and first-generation college students at the University of Washington. The Foundation hopes that through their studies and participation in real-world environmental research and problem-solving, students will broaden their personal horizons to include issues of global concern and will develop a passion and the skill set for making a difference in the world.

Recipients:

  • Aidan Dealy, Senior, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Jewel Wass de Czege, Sophomore, Earth & Space Sciences

Leo Reitan Endowed Scholarship

This scholarship is made possible by the generosity of Leo Reitan. This scholarship was created to provide financial assistance to undergraduate students pursuing a degree in the College of the Environment.

Recipients:

  • Dahlia Gietka, Junior, Earth & Space Sciences

College of the Environment Scholarship

This scholarship is made possible by the generosity of donors. The scholarship was created to support both undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in the College of the Environment.

Recipients:

  • A Anders Larson Tevis, 5th Year, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Avery Kobzeff, Junior transfer, Earth & Space Sciences

College of the Environment Top-Off Award

This award is offered to top ranked incoming graduate student applicants across the College and provides a one-time payment to be used as the student sees fit to enhance their scholarly work at the University of Washington.

Recipients:

  • Ying-Hung Tung, (advisor: David Schmidt)

Integral Environmental Big Data Research Fund Award

This funding award supports graduate students who are incorporating a big data approach to their scholarly work. In this context, a big data project is defined as one where the student is focused on extracting information from large datasets through the use of interesting, innovative computational and analytic approaches, and where the object of the work is an exploration of emergent patterns and/or relationships of scientific interest.

2024 Recipients:

  • Ben Lloyd, (advisor: Caroline Strömberg)
    Project: Segmentation and Classification of Grass Silica Short Cell Phytoliths using Convolutional Neural Networks

J. Dungan Smith Endowed Graduate Fellowship

This award is made possible by the generosity of Dr. James Dungan Smith. Throughout his tenure at UW, Jim served as a professor and chair of both what was then the Department of Oceanography and the Geophysics Program. This endowed fellowship will carry Jim’s legacy forward in perpetuity by empowering Ph.D. candidates to do research in the fields that Jim was so passionate about.

2024 Recipients:

  • Henry Yuan, (advisor: Akshay Mehra)