Hanna Breunig, Environmental Engineering PhD student, received an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) STAR fellowship for the coming year. Breunig was also one of the 16 students selected to be a 2014 Schmidt-MacArthur Fellow. (See Hanna Breunig Named a Schmidt-MacArthur Fellow.)
Breunig's advisor is CEE Professor Ashok Gadgil.
The competitive STAR Fellowship attracts, supports and bolsters the next generation of environmental scientists, engineers and policy makers. In doing so, the program enhances the environmental research and development enterprise, advances green principles and bridges diverse communities that help EPA better meet its mission.
EPA's STAR graduate fellowship program supports masters and doctoral candidates in environmental studies. Each year, students in the United States compete for STAR fellowships through a rigorous review process. Students can pursue degrees in traditionally recognized environmental disciplines as well as other fields such as social anthropology, urban and regional planning, and decision sciences. Since the program began in 1995, EPA has awarded approximately 1,500 STAR fellowships to students in every state and most territories.