Gaylord Donnelley Prize

Beginning in 1999, the Environmental Studies Program has recognized its most outstanding seniors for their academic achievements with the Gaylord Donnelley Prize. The award is made by faculty to the author of a distinguished piece of interdisciplinary scholarship. The Prize is presented to a senior at commencement. It is funded by an endowment from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation and the Donnelley Family, in memor of Mr. Gaylord Donnelley, a conservation dedicated to advances in research and education.

The Donnelley Foundation also endows a post-doctoral fellowship.

2009

Kevin Currey
Senior Essay: “We’re Iñupiat, We’re Hunters” Subsistence, Petroleum Development, and Cultural Identity in Nuiqsut, Alaska

Emily Jack-Scott
Senior Essay: A Tale of Two Shore Towns: Avalon and Wildwood, New Jersey

Anna Johnson
Senior Essay: Climate Change and Agriculture: Carbon Sequestration

Adineke Adeyeye
Senior Essay: Sanitation in Batey Libertad: Latrine Use and Waste Disposal Practices

Christa Anderson
Senior Essay: Livestock Predation Patterns and Incidents in Northern Tanzania

Jane Brandon Berkeley
Senior Essay: The Athens Metro Project: Public Transportation in Urban Planning

Dawn Lippert
Senior Essay: The Two Thousand Pound Question: An Analysis of Leatherback Sea Turtle Management on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico

Ariane Lotti
Senior Essay: Monitoring the Connection Between Humans and the Land: The Use of Indicators on Three Farms in Italy

Leanna Südhof
Senior Essay: A Very Selective Evaluation of Malaria Control Efforts in Africa South of the Sahara: The Global Fund and ITNs

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Flora Lichtman
Senior Essay: Crafting Sound Policy: The Origins, Evolution and Mis-regulation of Ocean Noise

2004

Livia DeMarchis
Senior Essay: Amphibian Conservation: The Public Perception, Policy, and Science of Declines and Deformities

Christopher McPhee
Senior Essay: Climate and Cultural Collapse: The Anasazi Implications for Abrupt Human Change.

2002

Brian Boyd, American Studies and Studies in the Environment
Senior Essay: The Coyote in the Garden

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2001

Megan MacLeod, Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology and Studies in the Environment
Senior Essay: Heat Shock Proteins: Cellular Superheroes in the Face of Environmental Pollution

2000

Susan Brown, American Studies and Studies in the Environment
Senior Essay:  The Silent Leader: Rachel Carson's Role in the Emergence of the Modern Environmental Movement

1999

Sarah Hollinshead, Political Science and Studies in the Environment
Senior Essay: The Big Mess: Environmental Policy and Contamination at the Massachusetts Military Reservation

Joshua Olsen, Architecture and Studies in the Environment
Senior Essay: Are Master-Planned Communities Worth It? An Analysis of Financial and Environmental Viability

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