Research Fellowship
Stephen H. Schoenholtz Water Undergraduate Research Fund
The Stephen H. Schoenholtz Undergraduate Research Fund is a competitive research funding opportunity for undergraduate students enrolled in the Water: Resources, Policy, and Management degree. Stephen Schoenholtz is the former Director of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center and Professor Emeritus in the Virginia Tech Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation.
The deadline for applications is December 3, 2024 at 5:00 PM. View application details here.
To read more about Stephen H. Schoenholtz and his work, click here.
The Stephen H. Schoenholtz Water Undergraduate Research Fund/Research Fellowship has been awarded annually since 2016.
2023/2024 Recipients
- Logan Flanagan: Variation in Hydrologic Signatures in the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Continental United States
- Clay Given: Depth to Bedrock Along a Stream on Brush Mountain, VA
20222/2023 Recipients
- Haley Bautista - Groundwater and surface water interactions on Brush Mountain
- Robbie Filegar - Riparian canopy cover of native and invasive species at Stroubles Creek
2021/2022 Recipients
- Drew Kellogg: Developing Stable Water Isotope AnalytIcal Capacity and Isotope Hydrology of McDonald Hollow
- Dillon Mungle: Simulating the Upscaled Use of a Silver-Ceramic Technology to Improve Drinking Water Quality in Schools
- Helen Salko: Studying the Effects of Corrosion Inhibitors on Different Levels of Alkalinity in Water
2020 Summer Recipient
- Lindsey Long: Instrumenting USFS National Forest streams
2019/2020 Recipient
- Dexter Howard: Drivers and Patterns of Dissolved Organic Matter Cycling in Drinking Water Reservoirs
2019 Summer Recipient
- Delaney Peterson: Undergraduate Water Research at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
2018/2019 Recipient:
- Benjamin Clark: Quantifying Nucleic Acid Association to Nanoparticles
2017/2018 Recipients:
- Saalehah Habeebah: An Analysis of Access to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services among Refugees in the New River Valley
- Alexa Maione: The Introduction of Aquaponics Systems in the Educational Setting in Montgomery County, Virginia
2016/2017 Recipients:
- Kylie Campbell: Environmental Predictors of Rotifer Recruitment in a Drinking Water Reservoir
- Shaifali Prajapati: Social, Economic, and Cultural Factors of Latrine Adoption in Coastal South India