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Environmental Studies and Sciences

Student Achievements

环境研究与科学学院奖

Awarded to two outstanding graduating seniors, one Environmental Studies major and one Environmental Science major, who, through academic achievement, community engagement, and leadership, demonstrate exceptional promise in addressing environmental issues.

Recipients

  • Ruthann Richards,环境科学学院奖
  • 马修·科奇,环境研究学院奖
  • 佐伊·帕格里亚罗,环境科学学院奖
  • 伊莎贝尔·比尔德,环境研究学院奖
  • Robbie Heumann,环境科学学院奖
  • Greta Binzen,环境研究学院奖
  • Carolyn Koestner,环境科学学院奖
  • Rafaela Iturralde,环境研究学院奖
  • 丽贝卡·哈尔特,环境科学学院奖
  • 齐亚·奥尼尔,环境研究学院奖
  • Julia Boyer, Environmental Science Track
  • Brian Fredericks, Social & Cultural Perspectives Track
  • 乔丹·斯塔克,环境科学轨道
  • Jenna Frank, Social & Cultural Perspectives Track
  • Alexandra Guest,环境科学轨道
  • Sarah Arndt, Social & Cultural Perspectives Track
  • 桑德拉·利普舒兹,环境科学轨道
  • Stephanie Seidmon, Social & Cultural Perspectives Track
  • 戈登·麦克弗森,环境科学轨道
  • Adam Schmelkin, Social & Cultural Perspectives Track
  • Claire Superak,环境科学轨道
  • Laura Fralich, Social & Cultural Perspectives Track
  • 道恩·哈夫曼,环境科学轨道
  • Nadine Dodge, Social & Cultural Perspectives Track
  • 汉娜·哈里斯,环境科学轨道 
  • Bradford Nesbitt, Social & Cultural Perspectives Track

其他奖项、助学金和成就

Ruthann Richards ‘21 received a SEE-Beyond Award to work at Eden’s Rose Foundation, addressing urban food insecurity in Albany.

Jade Bacherman ’22 received a SEE-Beyond Award to work at Save the Bay in Rhode Island, working on marine policy and environmental education.

Katherine Almquist ’24 received a SEE- Beyond Award to work at the Chikaming Township Lakefront Resiliency 计划,重点是尽量减少海岸线的侵蚀.

Priscilla Kayku ’24 received a Thorne Award to address environmental sustainability in Ghana with A Rocha Ghana.

Jenny Norcross ’21 was awarded SEF funds to work as a marine conservation and environmental education 在夏威夷的马拉玛茂纳鲁阿岛实习.

Haja Bah ’21 won the McAdams Award and was also awarded a Kenyan Princeton in Africa fellowship 与肯尼亚埃尔贡山生态系统信托基金合作.  She also won the President’s Award for Leadership and Service.

Heather Ricker ’22她获得了巴里·戈德华特奖学金.

Emily Chase ’22 received an ESS Summer Internship Award to do research and outreach for Gunpowder Waterkeeper in Monkton MD, focusing on clean water and ecosystem protection.

Jess Plotnick ’22 received an ESS Summer Internship Award to work as an intern at Oceana, addressing ocean plastic pollution.

Megan Martino ’22 received an ESS Summer Internship Award to work on ocean pollution issues at Seaside Sustainability in Massachusetts.

Eliana Colzani ’22, Morgan McClure ’22, Siddharth Nizamuddin ’21, Emme Tissue ’23, Sage Ganshirt ’22, Olivia Hunt ’23, Mya Carter ’24, Chrstina Lindstrom ’22, Roger Mercado ’22, Sophia Rubien ’22, Jordan Kohomban ’23, and Jess Shulman ‘23 all got Faculty-Student Summer Research funds to work with ESS professors Kurt Smemo and Kris Covey on a variety of soil and forestry projects in Saratoga, the Adirondacks, Tennessee, and Florida.

Chloe Faehndrich ’23, Paige Karl ’23, Finn Weber ’23, and Kara White ’24 all got summer funding to work with ESS professor Karen Kellogg on a wind energy 与国家可再生能源实验室合作的项目.

Brook Heston ’22 got Faculty-Student Summer Research funds to work with ESS professor Nurcan Atalan-Helicke researching Halal food in Albany.

Emily Davis ’23 got Faculty-Student Summer Research funds to work with Chemistry professor Juan Navea, 研究海洋喷雾气溶胶对全球气候变化的影响.

Ruthann Richards ‘21 received a SEE-Beyond Award to work at the Cary Institute on urban ecology. She also won the Barbara Hume Memorial Prize, awarded to an upperclassman each year who has shown personal growth as a result of new interests developed while at Skidmore.

Justine Bolling ’22 received a SEE-Beyond Award to do marine plastics research with Ocean Blue Society. 

Lucy Janovitz ’21 received a SEE-Beyond Award to work at Earthwise Aware as a Biodiversity Citizen Science Assistant.

Nicole Barry ’21, an ESS minor, received a SEE-Beyond Award to work at Pitney Meadows Farm.

Kieran Yater ’22 was awarded SEF funds to work at Oceana, working on legislation addressing ocean 塑料污染、地震气枪爆破和海上钻井.

Julia Danielsen ’22 was got an SEF award to work as an environmental educator at Kieve Wavus. 

Mateo Schwartz-Torres ’21 was awarded SEF funds to work with No Coal No Gas, a climate activist group in New England.

Chloe Faenhdrich ’23 was awarded SEF funds to do research at Cornell University on harmful algal blooms on Cayuga Lake.

Anna Tiajoloff ’20 获得了SEF基金,在联合国实习. 

Abby Grayburn ’20 was awarded SEF funds to work with the land use team of the Manhattan Borough President’s Office. She also worked with a middle school teacher to develop lesson plans on farming 食物浪费与他们的课程相结合.

Nick Meconiates ’22, an ESS minor, won an SEF award to work at Seaside Sustainability, doing research and writing grants. 

Kate Bjorklund ’20 received an ESS Summer Internship Award to do research and outreach for Miami Waterkeeper, 重点关注清洁水、海平面上升和生态系统保护.

Lily Feldman ’22 received an ESS Summer Internship Award to work as an intern at the Wilson Center, 一个无党派的国际智库. 

Seb Gatton ’20, Siddharth Nizamuddin ’21, Shay Kolodney ’21, Sylvana Szuhay ’22 all got Faculty-Student Summer Research funds to work with ESS professor Kris Covey on a variety of soil and forestry projects in the Adirondacks and in Tennessee.

Jazmin Rendon ‘20 received a SEE-Beyond Award to work with Capital Roots on food access issues.

Haja Bah ’21 received CDC SEF Award to work with the Freetown Mayor Food Delivery Program in Sierra Leone.

Olivia Berson ‘21 was awarded an ESS Summer Internship Award to work as an intern with the Earth Day Network.

Ruthann Richards ‘21 was awarded an NSF REU at the Brooklyn Urban Ecology and Environment Program through 布鲁克林学院,纽约城市大学.

Sam Vanasse ’20她获得了地球研究所的实习机会.

Andy Rhodes ’20 was awarded a SEE-Beyond Award to take classes in sustainable architecture at the Earthship Institute in New Mexico and then to work as an intern at TerraCycle in Philadelphia.

Anna Tiajoloff ‘20 was awarded an ESS Summer Internship Award to work as intern at OOLOOP, a sustainable fashion company.

Parker Heuer ’21 was awarded an SGA RCIA Award to work at FABSCRAP, a fabric-recycling non-profit in Brooklyn.

Nicol LaCumbre-Gibbs ’20 got Faculty-Student Summer Research funds to work with ESS professor Karen Kellogg 在节能建筑项目上.

Jacob Adams ’21, Adam Kaszas ’20, Shay Kolodney ’21, Zoe Pagliaro ’20, and Elle Ping ’21 all got Faculty-Student Summer Research funds to work with ESS professors Kurt Smemo and Kris Covey on a variety of soil and forestry projects around Saratoga, in the Adirondacks, and in Tennessee.

Haja Bah ’21
Received an SGA RCIA Award for to work at Medi-Needs, focusing on public health issues in Sierra Leone.

Isabel Blumenthal ’19
Was awarded an ESS Summer Internship Award to work as a sustainable farming intern with 9 Miles East Farm.

Ben Crooke ‘21
Was awarded an NSF REU at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, where he used remote sensing data to research subsidence rates along the Louisiana coast.

Erika Dodge ’20
ESS minor, won an award (?)为朱诺冰原研究项目工作.

Olivia Golden ’18
获得Earthos研究所实习.

Isabella Gukeisen ’20
Was awarded a SEE-Beyond Award to work as an intern at NOAA in Silver Springs MD.

Rafaela Iturralde ’18
Was awarded the Megan Adams-Roldan International Community Service Award to work at 厄瓜多尔基多的全球自然权利联盟.

Urvi Kalra ’18
Received a SEE-Beyond Award through her MFS minor to work as a Communications and 纽约雨林联盟媒体实习生.

Adam Kaszas ’20
Was awarded an SGA RCIA Award to work at the Radix Ecological Sustainability Center, helping to design a floating wetland to clean up combined sewer overflows in the Hudson River.

Angelea McPartlin ’18
Received a SEE-Beyond Award to work at the Leo Zoological Conservation Center in CT.

Miary Rasoanaivo ’18
因为在地球的最后一根稻草工作而获得了CDC SEF奖.

Mama Sama ’20
ESS minor, won an SGA RCIA Award to work as an academic mentor and tutor at Ellis Preparatory Academy.

Finley Tevlin ’18
Received a CDC SEF Award for internships at Capitol Roots and at Front Stoop Pocket Gardens.

Anna Tiajoloff ’20
Received a CDC SEF Award to work at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space in NYC.

Sam Vogel ’19
Was awarded an ESS Summer Internship Award to work as an intern with High Mountain Adventure in Colorado.

Kate Bjorklund ’20
Was awarded an SGA RCIA award to work in Ghana with Saha Global on global health and water access.

Julia Cavicchi ’18
Was awarded a SEE-Beyond Award for coursework at ISA, studying indigenous knowledge 以及秘鲁安第斯山脉的气候变化适应.

Tsering Choden ’17
Won the Katherine Scranton Rozendaal Citizenship Award in recognition for her outstanding citizenship in the Skidmore community and exemplary leadership in contributing to the quality of Skidmore life.

Rebecca Halter ’17
Received both the Skidmore Tim Brown Scholar Athlete Award and the Skidmore Senior Scholar Athlete Award.

Rafa Iturralde ’18
Won a SEE-Beyond Award to work at Voice of Nature in New Zealand on sustainable development and the protection of nature.

Malcolm Kaletsch ’18
Received an ESS Summer Internship Award to work at City Growers rooftop farm in Brooklyn and take complementary classes on sustainable architecture at Cooper Union.

Urvi Kalra ’18
Was awarded an ESS Summer Internship Award to work as an intern with Grameen Foundation 火博体育可持续发展项目的小额供资.

Angelea McPartlin ’18
Received an SSFIAP award to intern at the Trailside Museums and Zoo.

Sydney Randall ’17
Was awarded summer funding from Quebec-Labrador Foundation to work on community-based biodiversity conservation.

Miary Rasoanaivo ’18
获得了地球研究所的实习机会.

Colleen Sullivan ’17
Was awarded a SEE-Beyond Award to study marine conservation and education at the REEF 科德角环境教育基金会.

Nate Van Meter ’17
获得Earthos研究所实习.

Tracey Wingate ’17
Completed the second year of her 2-year Doris Duke Conservation Scholars program at 北亚利桑那大学,专注于可持续农业.

Christina Battiste '17
Was awarded an ESS Summer Internship Award to work as an environmental education intern at the Albany Pine Bush.

Isabel Blumenthal '18
Received a CDC Summer Internship Award to work at Dickenson College Farm.

Ben Curell '18
Was awarded an ESS Summer Internship Award to work as a GIS intern for the Town of Cumberland, Rhode Island.

Olivia Golden '18
Received a CDC Summer Internship Award to work in sustainable, urban agriculture at two internships, with Roots and Wisdom Co-operative Extension and with Radix Ecological Sustainability Center.

Amanda Greenlee '17
Was awarded an ESS Summer Internship Award to work at the Comfort Food Community Garden in Greenwich, NY.

Chris Malvicini '17
Received an SSFIAP award to work at the Marine Science Institute of the University of the Philippines.

Helen Mebrate '16
Was awarded an SGA RCIA award to work at the Environmental Science Summer School in Ethiopia.

Miary Rasonaivo '18
Won Skidmore’s SEE-Beyond Award to work with the UN REDD+ Program on protected areas in Madagascar.

Lauren Sidor '17
Was awarded an REU at University of Massachusetts – Boston, working on local fisheries.
Lauren Bosche ’15
Won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where 她将获得环境与资源管理硕士学位. She plans to specialize in water and climate policy and complete a research project at the Amsterdam Global Change Institute.

Julia Boyer ’16
Won Skidmore’s SEE-Beyond grant to study how elephant feeding behavior influences vegetation community structure in South Africa’s Kruger National Park.

Emily Cheung ’17
获得RCIA奖,在养护渔业公司实习. of Tennessee, studying aquatic biodiversity.

Tsering Choden ’17
获得SSFIAP奖,为尼泊尔儿童援助工作.

Kaelen Clark ’16
Received a Responsible Citizenship Internship Award (RCIA) from Skidmore’s SGA to 在社区收获计划工作.

Sarah Coburn ’16
Won a 2015 Summer Internship Award to research voluntourism with the Bodhi Surf and Yoga School in Costa Rica.

Jenna Frank ’15
Wrote a successful three-year, $60,000 grant for Yemaya, a women’s organic farming collective in Mexico, from the Blossom Fund, a private foundation that supports the 拉丁美洲基层妇女的努力.

Jared Herman ’15
Received an RCIA award to work on agroforestry and permaculture with the Borner Green Energy Team in Thailand.

Eliza Hollister ’15
Won a 2015 Summer Internship Award to work at Radix Ecological and Sustainability Center in Albany.

Rafaela Iturralde ’17
Received an RCIA award to work at CEDENMA, the national coordinating entity for environmental NGOs in Ecuador.

Michaela Kerxhalli-Kleinfield ’16
Won a 2015 Summer Internship Award to intern at Saratoga PLAN, a local land trust 保留了萨拉托加县的开放空间.

Charlie Lovejoy ’16
Was awarded an NSF-REU grant to work at Harvard Forest for the summer, researching 自然和人为干扰对森林生态系统的影响.

Zia O’Neill ’17
Received an RCIA award to work for Bike and Build Cyclist, riding her bike across 国家为经济适用房团体筹集资金. 
Anna Gubbins ’15
Won Skidmore’s SEE-Beyond grant to work with the sea turtle conservation and research 佛罗里达州萨拉索塔市莫特海洋实验室的项目.

Rebecca Fennel ’15
Won a 2014 ES Summer Internship Award to support her internship at Food Gatherers, a Michigan food bank that rescues food from local grocery stores to deliver to people in need.

Olivia McKee ’16
Won a 2014 ES Summer Internship Award to work with Saratoga PLAN, a local land trust 保留了萨拉托加县的开放空间.

Emily Cheung ’17
Received a RCIA award to intern with the US Forest Service through the Student Conservation Association, working on trails in the Frank Church-River of No Return wilderness area.

Emily Durante ’15
Received a RCIA award to work for the City of Saratoga Springs Planning and Economic 协助实施一项试点共享单车计划. Emily also won a national Newman Civic Fellow Award for her work on sustainable transportation, both on campus and in the Saratoga Springs.

Sarah Hoenig ’15
Received a SSFIAP award to intern at the Citizens’ Environmental Coalition in Albany, 一个专注于环境健康问题的非营利组织.
Melissa Chilinski ’15, 2013
Won a 2013 ES Summer Internship Award to support her internship at Radix Ecological Sustainability Center in Albany, a center for education on low-cost urban sustainability initiatives.

Norah (Nonie) crosssnohere ' 14, 2013
Was funded by SGA’s Responsible Citizenship Internship Award (RCIA) to complete an internship at World Information Transfer, a not-for-profit NGO that consults with the United Nations.

Emily Durante ’15, 2013
Won an award from the RCIA to intern with both the City of Saratoga Springs Planning and Economic Development Department and the Complete Streets Board, working to promote healthy transportation.

Rebecca Fennel ’15, 2013
Received a RCIA award to work at Groundwork Somerville, an organization that works with the Somerville community outside Boston on local sustainability projects.

Josh Inaba ’14, 2013
Won Skidmore’s SEE-Beyond grant to fund his internship at The Nature Conservancy of 夏威夷,为岛上的海洋项目工作. 乔希开发了一个政策工具来帮助他们 TNC and its partners establish community-based subsistence fishing areas.

Sondra Lipshutz ’13, 2013
Was awarded a 2013 ES Summer Internship Award to work for the NYC Department of Environmetnal Protection as a Wet Weather Planning Intern with the Bureau of Environmental Planning and Analysis.

Laura Mindlin ’15, 2013
Was funded by Skidmore Summer Funded Internship Awards Program to work at the Food Bank for New York City, an organization fighting to end food poverty in the five boroughs.

Julia Sabatino ’14, 2013
Won a 2013 ES Summer Internship Award to fund her summer research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, investigating the health effects of exposure to the organic solvent toluene.

Aoife Semar ’14, 2013
Won a 2013 ES Summer Internship Award to intern at the Sierra Club, writing blog posts 并为公众宣传制作了两部短片.

Eric Stumpf ’13, 2013
Was funded by the Elizabeth Marie Glotzbach Film Industry Award to work with two different film production companies in NYC.

Annie Weis ’14, 2013
Received a RCIA award to intern with Burns and Hammond, a environmental consulting 公司,着眼于可持续的商业实践.

Caitlin White ’14, 2013
Was funded by RCIA to work with Sustainable Skidmore on updating Skidmore’s Greenhouse 天然气库存和创建可持续发展徒步旅行手册. 
Sarah Arndt ’14, 2012
Was awarded the 2012 Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society undergraduate student paper award for her Honors Forum project, “Building a read food system: the challenges 以及在大学校园里的成功.她还获得了2012年ES暑期实习奖 to continue her work with Real Food Challenge by assessing the Skidmore Murray-Aikins dining hall.

Lauren Bosche ’15, 2012
Won a 2012 ES Summer Internship Award to work with the East Bay Bicycle Coalition in Berkeley Calif.

Jen Harfmann ’14, 2012
An ES minor, was awarded a competitive grant from the Schupf Scholar Program to conduct 密歇根北部河流养分循环的夏季研究.

Gwyn Harris ’13, 2012
Won Skidmore’s SEE-Beyond grant and spent the summer taking classes and learning sustainable design and architecture at Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Vermont.

Eliza Sherpa ’14, 2012
Won an EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Undergraduate Student Fellowship, which provides funding for her junior and senior year of undergraduate study as well 在环保局机构做暑期实习.

Kate Jestin Taylor ’14, 2012
Won a 2012 ES Summer Internship Award to intern as a zookeeper at the Austin Zoo in 在那里,她帮助日常运营.

Korena Burgio, 2011
环境研究专业,环境科学方向
Awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in South Korea starting in July 2011.

Laura Fralich, 2011
主修环境研究,社会学 & 文化视角轨道,建立学生 Organic Food Garden on campus with funding from the nonprofit Sparkseed and Skidmore's Responsible Citizenship Task Force.

Sarah Green, 2011
Environmental studies minor won a Fulbright research grant to Argentina to work on eco-literature.

Kate Ito, 2011
主修环境研究,社会学 & 文化视角轨道和双修 in geosciences and government. 获得巴纳巴斯·麦克亨利·哈德逊河谷奖 to research how a national park designation could affect the Hudson Valley's economic, 环境、社会和自然制度. Her findings will be displayed on OurHudson.org.

Jesse Moy, 2011
环境研究专业,环境科学方向, awarded the 跨学科约瑟夫加里森帕克奖 for a junior or senior who not only excels in his or her science major but also shows promise in fine arts and/or music.

Nadine Dodge, 2010
主修环境研究,社会学 & 《火博体育官网》获得了EPA大奖 Research Opportunities Undergraduate Student Fellowship for $42,000.

Jenna Gersie, 2010
主修环境研究,社会学 & 文化视角轨道,赢得了约瑟夫 C. Palamountain Jr. Prose Award for an excerpt from Wings and Words: A Field Guide to the Birds of North American Environmental Literature这是一篇环境文学的毕业论文.

Dawn Harfmann, 2010
环境研究专业,环境科学方向, was a finalist for a Goldwater Scholarship President's Award.

 

Ryan Bailey, 2009
主修环境研究,社会学 & 获得了5000美元的奖学金 from the Lewis and Clark College/Mellon Foundation interdisciplinary environmental research initiative

Erin Kenison, 2009
环境研究专业,环境科学方向, won the Best Student Poster Presentation Award at the Northeast Natural History Conference X for 友谊浪费在入侵的日本虎杖上 with Peter Liepzig-Scott; Research experience: biology and conservation of poison dart frogs in Costa Rica.

Peter Liepzig-Scott, 2009
环境研究专业,环境科学方向, won Best Student Poster Presentation Award at the Northeast Natural History Conference X for 友谊浪费在入侵的日本虎杖上 with Erin Kenison

Allison Ruschp, 2009; Sheridan Reuter, 2009; Caitlin Frame, 2010
Environmental studies majors (Capstone 2009), established a rain garden on campus with funding from Skidmore Student Opportunity Funds and Brookside Nursery and a collaboration 与萨拉托加县城市间雨水计划合作.

Sara Lacy, 2008
Environmental studies minor, was a 2008 sustainable energy fellow and a Duke University Summer Energy Fellowship attendee.