Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Awards and Recognition
2009-2010
Faculty Awards
Grant of Tenure – Bill Hopkins
CNR Outreach Award – Steve McMullin
Appointment to Professor Emeritus Status: Mike Vaughan
FDA-Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Director’s Special Citation Award – Michael Schwarz
Curriculum Clubs’ Faculty Award for Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences – Dean Stauffer
President-Elect, Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society – Brian Murphy
Graduate Student Awards
CNR Outstanding Master’s Student Award – Brian Gerber
CNR Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award – Nick Lapointe
A.B. Massey Honorarium – Nick Lapointe
H.S. Mosby Award – Sarah Durant
Burd S. McGinnes Graduate Fellowship – Christine Bergeron and Jeff Feaga
U.S. Forest Service Wings Across America Award – Mike St. Germaine
Jimmy Pigg Award, Southern Division American Fisheries Society – Ryan McManamay
International Student Scholarship – Yaw Ansah and Sunarto
Royal Thai Scholarship – Pawapol Kongchum
American Association of University Women International Fellowship – Maria Guadalupe Bravo Vinaja
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships – Brian Gerber and Danielle Bridgers
Sigma Xi Grants-in –Aid of Research Award, National – Sarah Durant and Brittney Hopkins
Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Grants-in-Aid of Research Award – Sarah Durant
VT Graduate Research Development Program Research Award – Christine Bergeron and Devin Jones
National Geographic Society / Waitts Grant – Zach Farris
Ross Graduate Scholarship, Virginia Chapter American Fisheries Society – Dan Stich
Organization of Fisheries & Wildlife Information Managers Annual Meeting Travel Award – Tye Deweber
Second Place, Oral Presentation, Graduate Student Association Research Symposium – Sarah Durant
VT Chapter American Fisheries Society Outstanding Member Award – Jeremy Pritt
Undergraduate Awards
Jean B. Duerr Memorial Scholarship – Thera Lombardi
Girl Scouts of the USA Gold Award – Cari Squibb
NOAA Hollings Scholarship – Scott Riley
VT Wildlife Society Outstanding Member Award – Chad Stochowiak
Alumni Awards
Gerald Cross Alumni Leadership Award – Ronald J. Kendall
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Director’s Conservation Award – Curt Hensel