Muir Fellowships in Environmental Scholarship
For New and Continuing Graduate Students at UC Davis
Program Description
Since 2003 the John Muir Institute of the Environment has awarded more than $530,000 to 24 graduate students. Fellowship recipients have come from a wide variety of graduate programs including Transportation Technology and Policy, Population Biology, English, and Agricultural and Resource Economics.
Muir Fellowships in Environmental Scholarship are awarded in recognition of a student’s environmental scholarship and the potential of their research projects to provide the scientific basis for environmental policy and decision making.
Successful applications address the potential of the research to:
- improve the quality of the environment;
- affect human behavior and societal changes;
- and facilitate the exchange of information between policy makers, resource agencies, academic scientists, and the public.
The degree to which the proposed research crosses disciplinary boundaries or encourages multidisciplinary exchange among scholars is also important.