Thanks to the generosity of friends and supporters of the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, several SEFS professors and students have been awarded endowments this spring. These endowments provide funds for faculty members and students to support their research, education, and engagement activities.
L. Monika Moskal was awarded the McLachlan/MCMC endowed professorship. The McLachlan/MCMC endowment is awarded to professors who pursue educational and professional programs in sustainable forest management and forest engineering in a multi-disciplinary context.
Rick Gustafson was renewed as the Denman Chair in Bioresource Science and Engineering. Anthony Dichiara was renewed for the Weyerhaeuser Endowed Professorship in Paper Science and Engineering in the College of Forest Resources.
The following students were awarded endowments based on their excellent academic performances and important contributions to the labs in which they worked.
Natalee Bozzi was awarded the Richard D. Taber Outstanding Wildlife Conservation Student Award for her passion for birds and publication quality work on her senior thesis involving the ecology of brown bears in Alaska.
Olivia Cavaluzzi and Jane Christopherson were each awarded the Richard D. Taber Excellence in Wildlife Conservation awards for their outstanding academic achievements and diverse talents.
The John A. Wott Botanic Gardens Endowed Student Award was awarded this fall to Maya Kahn-Abrams. Maya is an MS student in SEFS and is based at the Center for Urban Horticulture. She is conducting exceptional and critical research on the soil requirements of a rare endemic plant, Eriogonum sodium, that occurs in a narrow range in south-central Washington. She has worked as a technician for Rare Care and led field monitoring for the SR520 mitigation in Union Bay Natural Area in 2022. She has also served as a teaching assistant for Introduction to Restoration Ecology and for the Restoration Ecology Capstone course sequence. She plans to graduate in Autumn 2023.
Congratulations to the awardees!
