News
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SAGE is involved in the "Get Up & Ride National Bike Challenge," a program that encourages people to bicycle for transportation and recreation by logging cycling miles. From May 1st to August 31st, SAGE students, faculty, and staff will be recording their cycling miles for commuting, running errands, or riding recreationally while competing against other teams around the state of Wisconsin and the country. (May 2012)
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Congratulations to Holly Gibbs as part of a successful grant effort to the National Academies of Science Keck Futures Initiative Awards, "Assessing the sustainability of agricultural commodity chains: Contrasting ecosystem service impacts of small-scale agriculture and large-scale agribusiness" (May 2012). (news release)
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2012 GSSP Winners! Congratulations to Grand Prize Winners ($15K each): C Machine, PureWater Trike, and Waste 2 Energy. The Healthy Places Prize ($5k from UW-Office of Sustainability and UW-Global Health Institute) was awarded to Weego (4/16/12).
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Student News and Awards
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Yanghui Kang (Mutlu Ozdogan, Advisor) has been awarded a three-year NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) for her proposal, "Yield Estimation Through Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Data into Crop Growth Models". The purpose of the NESSF program is to ensure continued training of a highly qualified workforce in disciplines required to achieve NASA’s scientific goals. Awards resulting from the highly-competitive selection process are training grants to the respective universities and educational institutions, with the faculty advisor serving as the principal investigator.(May 2012)
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Erica Bickford won best grad student poster at the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Science poster session, May 15, 2012
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Tyler Lark selected as the 2012-2013 Roy F. Weston Graduate Fellow in Sustainability Studies. This 9-month academic fellowship is the top award at SAGE, and is only given to our most outstanding students. The award was named in honor of UW alumnus Roy Weston, who was a visionary leader in sustainability in the business world, and his gift supports future leaders in the science, engineering and technical foundations of sustainability. Tyler's outstanding scholarship, leadership, and dedication to issues of environmental sustainability motivated his selection by the SAGE Investigator's Council for this prestigious award. (April 2012)
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