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Teaching Awards
Fred Holmsley Moore Teaching Award - An endowment set up by Fred
H. Moore along with matching donations from Mobil Oil Company to sponsor
high caliber lecturers also funds a student teaching award given at the
end of the academic year. Nominations for this award are solicited annually
with a due date around Feb 1. Instructions for nomination will be posted about December 1st each year.
Teaching Resources Graduate Teaching Award - to recognize commitment
to and excellence in undergraduate education. Awarded by the University's
Teaching Resource Center. The Teaching Resource Center will ask for nominations
in mid February. The Graduate Academic Review Committee will determine if
any of the candidates for the Moore Teaching Award should be submitted for
the GRT prize, and further if any should be nominated for the All-University
Graduate Teaching Award whereupon additional instructions will be provided
to the nominators
Research Awards (and grants)
Details and specific instructions for applying for each of the research
awards can be found on the Graduate Academic Review Committee's Research web pages.
Moore Research Awards - the Moore Research Awards, based on merit
are also supported by the Fred Holmsley Moore Endowment, and were initiated
in the early 1980's to help sponsor the dissertation and thesis work of
environmental sciences graduate students. Our department's graduate students
submit proposals to the Graduate Academic Review Committee which reviews
and evaluates these proposals. Traditionally, we recognize both Master's
level and Doctoral level efforts by supporting a Moore Research Award at
each. Deadline for submission of proposals is on or about April 1 of each
year.
Bannon Research Award - This research award, based on merit, is
supported by an endowment made possible by the generosity of Mr. William
Bannon and the Bannon Foundation. Created in 1991, this Research Award supports
outstanding graduate student research that concentrates on the Chesapeake
Bay or the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Deadline for this proposal is on or
about April 1 of each year.
Odum Research Award - this Research Award was created in 1994
when Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Odum created an endowment to honor their late son
William E. Odum. Bill was a colleague in our Department until his death
in 1991. He was an outstanding scientist, educator and friend that also
served as Department Chairman. Bill's dedication to his graduate students
led his parents to create this award to support graduate student work on
wetland and marsh environments, the research area where Bill himself excelled.
Deadline for this proposal is on or about April 1 of each year.
Department Mini-Grants - Although not an award per se,
the Department does have limited funds available for support of student
research that has no other source of funding. See the Graduate Academic
review Committee's Research web pages for details and instructions for applying for one of these grants.
Scholarship Awards
Arthur A. Pegau (graduate) - The heirs of the late Dr. Arthur
A. Pegau, who taught in the Department for more than twenty years, set up
an endowment fund for an award to assist students in their research towards
a graduate degree in Geology. This award recognized the outstanding graduate
student having completed a full year in the Department whose area of interest
and focus within environmental sciences is geology. The Graduate Academic
Review Committee will select the awardee with input from the faculty in
geosciences.
Graduate Atmosphere Award (graduate) - Sponsored by the department,
this award recognizes the outstanding graduate student having completed
a full year in the department whose area of interest and focus within environmental
sciences is atmospheric sciences. The Graduate Academic Review Committee
will select the awardee with input from the faculty in atmospheric sciences.
Graduate Ecology Award (graduate)- Sponsored by the Department,
this award recognizes the outstanding graduate student having completed
a full year in the Department whose area of interest and focus within environmental
sciences is ecology. The Graduate Academic Review Committee will select
the awardee with input from the faculty in ecology.
Graduate Hydrology Award (graduate)- Sponsored by the Department,
this award recognizes the outstanding graduate student having completed
a full year in the Department whose area of interest and focus within environmental
sciences is hydrology. The Graduate Academic Review Committee will select
the awardee with input from the faculty in hydrology.
Maury Environmental Sciences Prize - This is the premier prize
award in the Department of Environmental Sciences. This prize was established
by Dr. F. Gordon Tice in 1992. The purpose of the Prize is to foster environmental
research, and scholarship and to recognize and honor the outstanding undergraduate
or graduate student for their contributions to environmental science,
their ability co communicate their findings, and their potential to better
the understanding of our environment. Students are nominated by members
of the faculty and the award will be approved by the entire faculty upon
recommendation of the Graduate Academic Review Committee. The deadline for
nominations will be on or about April 1 each year. Instructions are located
in the Graduate Academic Review Committee web pages
Other Awards
Joseph K Roberts - From the income of this endowment, an award
is given annually entitled the Joseph K. Roberts Award. This award will
be in the form of a book containing an appropriate plate and costing about
$15. It will be given to a UVa student (graduate or undergraduate) who presents
the most meritorious paper on geology research to the Geology Section of
the Virginia Academy of Science. Students who present such papers should
forward a copy of the abstract to the Chair of the Graduate Academic Review
Committee at the time of the meeting of the Academy.
W. E. Odum Memorial Endowed Fellowship Fund - The purpose of this
is Fund is to provide fellowships to Arts & Sciences graduate students
who are doing research on wetland and marsh environments. Inquiries about
this award should be directed to the Financial Aid Committee
Chair's Award - to recognize an undergraduate or graduate student
that has performed extraordinary services to the department and demonstrated
an interdisciplinary approach to both teaching and research. This is award
at the Chair's discretion.
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