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Adrianne's essay was awarded 1st prize in the memoir category of the Thompson Awards for Western American Writing. Adrianne's essay was an autobiography about fear of avalanches and "funny" coping mechanisms while in the backcountry.

Austin Cowley, Ian Rowen, and Amelia Schubert have been selected as this years recipients of the department's Adam Kolff Memorial Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides $1500 toward research expenses for MA students.

Mason Auger, Abby Hickcox, and Adam Williams have been selected as the recipients of the Geography Department's new Environment-Society Fellowship. Funded by a generous gift to the department, each fellowship provides $12,000 to support research in environment-society relations. Mason Auger's project, "Native Attachments: American Indians and the Yellowstone Environment," explores...

Afton Clarke-Sather has been selected by the Graduate School for a Summer Fellowship, which includes a three-month stipend to support his dissertation progress during the summer months. Afton's dissertation is tentatively titled "From the Heavens to the Markets: Development, Nation, and the Mediation of Nature in Northwest China".

Preston received this award through the Graduate School's John Marr Ecology Fund. Its purpose is to provide grants of $300 to $1000 for Ph.D. candidates doing field research in plant ecology in the Rocky Mountains or the Arctic.

Sarah received this award through the Graduate School's John Marr Ecology Fund. Its purpose is to provide grants of $300 to $1000 for Ph.D. candidates doing field research in plant ecology in the Rocky Mountains or the Arctic.

Adina was presented the award for the Outstanding Student Oral Presentation at the Hydrologic Sciences Research Symposium held March 31 and April 1, 2011.

Danielle was presented the award for Outstanding Student Poster at the Hydrologic Sciences Research Symposium held March 31 and April 1, 2011.

Lindsay is the recipient of an Eaton Graduate Student Travel Grant from the Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA). This will support travel to Thimphu, Bhutan to present a paper at the 4th annual conference of the South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion...

Lindsay has won a grant from the University of Wisconsin, Madison's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program "Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Southwest China" funded by National Science Foundation. The grant will fund Skog's summer research on sacred landscapes in northwestern Yunnan.