Congratulations to our PoE students  recently awarded College of the Environment (CoE) scholarships and funding for the 2023-2024 academic year!  These prestigious scholarship awards are selected by the CoE Dean’s office.  We are very excited to recognize the following PoE students honored this year!

Vontver Environment and Human Health Endowed Scholarship
Dr. Lou Vontver was fortunate to have career changing experiential learning opportunities while serving as a flight medical officer with the U.S. Air Force in the Far East. He saw the effect of poverty, demography and environment on human health and well-being. Those experiences led him to a career he had never imagined during medical school. He finished a reproductive endocrinology fellowship, a residency in Obstetrics-Gynecology, a Master of Education, and became a faculty member of the UW School of Medicine. He tried to impress on students the importance of poverty, demography, and environment on human health. He was also a member of the Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility (WPSR). He is now an active member of WPSR’s task force on climate change and has
learned even more about its effect on human health. With this endowment Dr. Vontver hopes to give students in the College of the Environment opportunities for experiential learning such as he had, which hopefully will inspire them to pursue studies on the environment and human health.
The 2023-24 Recipient of the Vontver Environment and Human Health Endowed Scholarship is:

• Leyna Doty, Junior, Environmental Studies

College of the Environment Scholarship
This scholarship is made possible by the generosity of donors. The scholarship was created to support
both undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in the College of the Environment.
Program on the Environment Recipients:

• Sophia Bender, Freshman, Environmental Studies
• Shannon Cosgrove, Junior transfer, Environmental Studies
• Lauren Coval, Freshman, Environmental Studies
• Leyna Doty, Junior, Environmental Studies
• Lexie Drummond, Freshman, Environmental Studies
• Sydney Morris, Junior transfer, Environmental Studies
  

Learn more about the College’s undergraduate scholarship program here.