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Environmental Leadership Award Application Period

Apply for the 2024 Prairie Springs Environmental Leadership Award

About the Prairie Springs Environmental Leadership Awards & Eligibility
 
The Prairie Springs Environmental Leadership Awards recognize individuals who have made substantial contributions in environmental leadership. The criteria for selection takes into account original and inventive research, engagement with UWL and the broader Seven Rivers community and accomplishments that have had a substantive impact.  


These awards are intended to encourage UWL instructors, undergraduate students and graduate students to continue the environmental education and conservation work that were the passion of the trustee, the late Paul Fleckenstein, and to inspire others to do the same.

Note: Students who graduated in December of the academic year in which the award is granted may be nominated. Those who have been nominated in the past may apply for the award again using the same project, but must be able to demonstrate new advancements in their work. Past Prairie Springs Excellence Award winners can apply for the award every five years.

Application Criteria
There are two $1,000 Prairie Springs Excellence Awards. One $1,000 award is to be granted to a UWL undergraduate or graduate student and a second $1,000 award to a UWL instructor, including tenure-track faculty and instructional academic staff.

The awardees will have made substantial and sustainable contributions to one or more of the following areas:

  1. Environmental Studies
  2. Environmental Research
  3. Environmental Education
  4. Environmental Outreach


The criteria for both the student and instructor awards includes the following, in order of priority:

Impact of the individual’s environmental accomplishment(s)

  • Original and inventive work or research that both advances the discipline, and results in tangible and practical contributions to environmental education, conservation, and restoration. The former could include endeavors that contribute to the advancement of public awareness for the betterment of the total environment.

Scope of environmental accomplishment(s)

  • Demonstrated engagement with UWL and the broader Seven Rivers local community and stakeholders.


Sustainability of accomplishment(s)

  • Accomplishments involve the creation of enduring opportunities/possibilities that make a substantive impact.

Related campus initiatives

Sustainability Transformational education

When

Past occurrences (1)

  • Midnight Friday, Dec. 1, 2023 to 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024

Contact

For questions about this event or to request disability accommodations , contact Andrew Ericson at 608.785.8867 or aericson@uwlax.edu.

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