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 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