Congratulations Graduating Class of 2008 !!! ........Scroll down for outstanding seniors.
CONGRATULATIONS to Phil Condon for receiving tenure and to Dan Spencer for being promoted to associate professor. These honors reflect their valued and growing contribution to UM and EVST. We are very happy to have them.
CONGRATULATIONS KAREN: EVST's very own Karen Hurd received the 2008 UM Outstanding Service to Students Award. Much deserved. Drop by the EVST office and say Congratulations! And come to the Awards Reception in the UC Ballroom on April 23, 4-6pm.
OUTSTANDING STUDENTS: On April 22, the following EVST students were recognized at the UM Student Leadership awards --
Cori Ash, Shannon Kuhn, Paige Browning and Kendra Kallevig (who won the award in fall 2007). In addition, Paul Kerman, EVST graduate student and UM Recycling Intern was recognized along with other outstanding student workers at UM, at a reception at the Davidson's Honors College on April 15.
EVST UNDERGRADS RULE: 3 Udall scholarship winners this year (2008)! Congratulations to Cleo Woelfe-Erskine, Shannon Kuhn, and Whitney Gaskill. UM continues to have more Udall winners than any other school. Only 2 others (Cornell & American Univ) had 3 winners this year.
EVST undergrad Andrew Erickson won a Truman Scholarship (a national merit based scholarship). Congratulations, Andy!
ASBESTOS ORDINANCE: In February 2008, the Missoula City Council passed an asbestos ordinance that came directly out of the professional paper recommendations of EVST graduate student Holly Truitt. Missoula had the worst compliance in Montana with state asbestos regulations. Buildings were being demolished without asbestos inspections. Now we can all breathe easier, literally. Big snaps to Holly!
EVSTers WIN NATIONAL ESSAY CONTEST ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
Three UM students have placed # 3 in Johnson Controls' national essay competition --Tomorrow's Energy Ambassadors, Managers, and Scholars (TEAMS) competition. Their essay was selected over essays from Teams at Duke, Purdue, Emory and Boston University (and many more). The brilliant essay team from UM includes: ASUM President Dustin Leftridge (EVST/Geology), Jessie Davie (EVST grad student & ASUM sustainability coordinator), and Emily Peters (UM Facilities Services sustainability coordinator). Students were asked to write a letter to the 2008 US Presidential Candidates, presenting the need for a sustainable energy strategy for the US and challenging the candidates to develop and state their positions and action strategies to achieve energy sustainability. More on the competition here.
CONGRATULATIONS VICKI WATSON: Congratulations to Vicki on receiving Montana Natural History Center's 2007 Nature Educator Award. Well deserved!
