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Stephen H. Schoenholtz Water Undergraduate Research Fund

Stephen H. Schoenholtz
Stephen H. Schoenholtz

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 Director of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center and a Professor in the Virginia Tech Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation.  

The deadline for applications is December 1, 2023 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.  

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