Six Taubman College Graduate Students Named Dow Sustainability Fellows

Forty students campus-wide were recently named Dow Sustainability Fellows, with six students being selected from Taubman College. Olivia Lu-Hill (M.Arch.‘17), Adam Nault (M.Arch.‘16), Gaurav Sardana (M.Arch,‘16), Lindsey Von Seggern (M.Arch.‘17), Frank Romo (M.U.P.‘16), and dual degree student Dana Wall (SNRE/M.U.P.’16) were selected from a distinguished group of nominees to receive $20,000 for their studies and to become community scholars. To be selected, the team had to draft a persuasive white paper developing a comprehensive stance or an analysis of options on a particular sustainability challenge.

The students will be with the program through December and will continue to collaborate to approach sustainability challenges related to water, energy, transportation, built environment, climate change, food, health, human behavior, and others.

The Dow Sustainability Fellows program, now in only its third year, was established through a six-year gift from The Dow Chemical Co. and supports full-time U-M graduate students and postdoctoral scholars committed to finding interdisciplinary, actionable, and meaningful sustainability solutions on local-to-global scales. Visit the Planet Blue website for the complete article.