Five Yale University and two University of Connecticut students received special science fellowships from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to pursue sustainable studies.
The EPA Science to Achieve Results, or STAR, fellowships awarded $5.3 million nationwide to cover tuition for students to pursue an environmental education that might otherwise be inaccessible to them. The seven UConn and Yale students split $783,600 with 11 other students from around New England.
The Connecticut Star fellows are:
• Heidi Golden from UConn, studying the climate change impact on the Arctic grayling
• Hom Sharma from UConn, studying catalytic impacts on air pollution
• Peter Christensen from Yale, studying China’s forestry and building industry
• Nikki Springer from Yale, studying landscape design
• Amanda Lounsbury from Yale, studying heavy metal groundwater contamination
• Devin Shaffer from Yale, studying drinking water
• Jamila Yamani from Yale, studying wastewater treatment
