For the first time in Warner’s history, the college’s annual awards reception was split into two events to celebrate the 2022-2023 winners. The Student Awards Reception was held on Monday, April 17 in the Lory Student Center Theater, and the All-College Awards Reception was held on Thursday, May 4 in the atrium of the Michael Smith Natural Resources building.
During the Student Awards Reception, Dean A. Alonso Aguirre presented the winners of the first-ever Dean’s Fund for Transdisciplinary Approaches to Wicked Problems. The transdisciplinary grants allow researchers from different departments and centers to break down silos by working with people and groups outside of academia to address complex and interconnected problems.
View more information and pictures about the award winners here.
Student Awards Ceremony, April 17
Department Awards
- ESS David A. Falletti Memorial – Devin Hunt
- ESS Eldor Paul Award – Melina Takvorian
- FRS Rangeland Ecosystem Science Outstanding Senior – Zoe Lipscomb
- FRS Forest Sciences Outstanding Senior – Esme Wissinger
- FRS Natural Resources Management Outstanding Senior – Angelika Helmer
- FRS Restoration Ecology Outstanding Senior – Sarah Williams
- FWCB Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Outstanding Senior – Kelley Sinning
- FWCB Conservation Biology Outstanding Senior – Juniper Vane
- FWCB Wildlife Biology Outstanding Senior – Christian Narby
- GEO Honor Senior – Shea Slonkosky
- HDNR J.V.K. Wagar Honor Senior – Hunter Weber, Ginger Clark
College Council Awards
- Professor of the Year – Sarah Hart
- Outstanding Student: Forest and Rangeland Stewardship – Angelika Helmer
- Outstanding Student: Ecosystem Science and Sustainability – Tara Flood
- Outstanding Student: Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology – Daniel Rice
- Outstanding Student: Geosciences – Maggie Windingstad
- Outstanding Student: Human Dimensions of Natural Resources – Zoe Hansen
- Warner Wookie (For spreading kindness and positivity throughout the College) – Meaghan Pascual
- Wilderness Warner (Student who spent all their free time outdoors connecting with nature) – Tao Liu
- Walks-the-Talk Warner (Student who advocates for the environment and lives by conservation and sustainability values) – Haleigh Yankowski
All-College Awards, May 4
College Awards
- Undergraduate Research Award – Annika Abbott, FWCB
- Outstanding Masters Thesis – Ellie Driscoll, GEO
- Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation – Jemma Fadum, ESS
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant – Clara Mosso, ESS
- Outstanding Service Award – Dr. Bob Sturtevant, NREL
- Emeritus Award – Dr. Malcolm McCallum, GEO
- Outstanding Mentorship Award – Dr. Liba Pejchar, FWCB
- Robert Davis Honor Senior Memorial Award – Grace Evans, HDNR
- Outstanding Administrative Staff Award – Dawson Metcalf, HDNR
- Warner College Team Award – CitSci
- Dean’s Award for Excellence to an Early Career Faculty Member – Dr. Matt Ross, ESS
- Harry E. Troxell Distinguished Service-to-Students Faculty Award – Dr. Steven Fassnacht, ESS
- Diversity and Inclusion Award (Faculty) – Dr. Sara Bombaci, FWCB
- Diversity and Inclusion Award (Staff) – Maddie Wilson, CFRI
- John P. Hayes Leadership Award – Calvin Bagley, CEMML
Outstanding Publications
- ESS – Stephanie Kampf, Dan McGrath, Megan Sears, Steven Fassnacht, Leonie Kieweit, and John C. Hammond Increasing wildfire impacts on snowpack in the western U.S., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.
- GEO – Richard Knox, Ellen Wohl, and Ryan Morrison A river ran through it: Floodplains as America’s newest relict landform, Science Advances
- HDNR – Kelly Jones, Ben Gannon, James Chamberlin, and Brett Wolk Societal benefits from wildlife mitigation activities through payments for watershed services: Insights from Colorado, Forest Policy and Economics
- FWCB – Sara Bombaci and Liba Pejchar Advancing equity in faculty hiring with diversity statements, Bioscience
- FRS – Ryleigh Gelles, Seth Davis, and Camille Stevens-Rumann Wildfire and forest thinning shift floral resources and nesting substrates to impact native bee biodiversity in ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range, Forest Ecology and Management
