The WaterSHED Center offers research fellowships to particularly well-qualified graduate students. The amount varies depending upon the student's circumstances. Please contact Dr. Paul Kirshen, Director, at paul.kirshen@tufts.edu for more information. Past and present fellows include:
2000
Ellen Marie Douglas
Ellen earned a BS in Hydrology (1991) and an MS in Civil Engineering (1994)
from the University of New Hampshire. At Tufts, Ellen studied under Dr.
Richard Vogel of Tufts University as a doctoral candidate in Water Resources
Engineering in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. She
received her Ph.D. in May 2002. Her research focused on floods and droughts.
Specific topics include incorporating spatial correlation in statistical
trend tests, evaluating the effect of streamflow persistence on drought
risk estimates, and developing risk estimates for extraordinary floods.
Ellen also specializes in hydrogeological characterization and modeling.
After receiving her Ph.D. at Tufts she took a position as a postdoctoral
fellow at Harvard University.
2001
Todd Pagano
Todd Pagano is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Todd
graduated magna cum laude with a B. A. in Chemistry from SUNY Oswego,
which he completed in three years. After a semester of graduate work in
environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, he came to the Department
of Chemistry at Tufts as a doctoral candidate. He completed his Master’s
degree in Chemistry in 1998, the same year he was awarded an EPA S.T.A.R
Fellowship, which he held for three years. He has served as a Teaching
Assistant and Research Assistant in Chemistry, and in summer 2000 was
named a Fellow of the Institute on College Teaching at Tufts. As part
of that program he co-taught Environmental Chemistry with Professor Jonathan
Kenny. In fall, 2000, he chaired sessions of the SPIE conference on spectrochemical
analysis and guest lectured at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in their Honors
Chemistry program. He has presented or coauthored nine papers at regional,
national and international conferences. He has been recognized with numerous
awards and honors for his performance as a student and researcher.
2003
Melvin Rader
Melvin Rader received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College in
Economics. He is currently seeking two graduate degrees at Tufts: M.S.
in Nutrition Policy from the Agriculture, Food, and Environment Program
and M.S. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from Civil and
Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on how droughts and floods
in developing countries affect their ability to produce food.
2003
Patrick Ray
Patrick Ray received his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is pursuing a degree
in Water Resources Engineering at Tufts. He dreams of applying the knowledge
and skills he gains at Tufts University to solving the problems of water
scarcity and water pollution throughout the developing world. His specific
interests lie in healing of ancient animosities between the West and the
broader area of the Muslim world. He hopes that by serving and caring
for its people through engineering, he can help to create mutual respect
and constructive relationship between the people of the West and those
the Muslim World.
Title: Fall 2003 EPA Minority Academic
Institutions (MAI) Fellowship Program for Graduate Environmental Study
URL: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/current/2003_mai_grad.html
Open Date: 08/12/2002
Close Date: 11/18/2002
Summary: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is offering
Minority Academic Institutions Graduate Fellowships for master’s and doctoral
level students in environmentally related fields of study. The deadline
for receipt of pre-applications is November 18, 2002. Subject to availability
of funding, the Agency plans to award approximately 25 new fellowships
by July 22, 2003. Master's level students may receive support for a maximum
of two years. Doctoral students may be supported for a maximum of three
years. The fellowship program provides up to $34,000 per year of support.
This amount covers a $17,000 annual stipend, $5,000 for authorized expenses,
and up to $12,000 for tuition and fees. Actual annual support may vary
based on length of fellowship award and tuition and fees.
Applicable Category(s): Grant/Fellowship Announcements
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Title: Fall 2003 EPA Minority Academic
Institutions (MAI) Undergraduate Fellowships
URL:
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/current/2003_mai_under.html
Open Date: 08/12/2002
Close Date: 11/18/2002
Summary: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is offering
Minority Academic Institutions Undergraduate Fellowships for bachelor
level students in environmentally related fields of study. The deadline
for receipt of pre-applications is November 18, 2002. Subject to availability
of funding, the Agency plans to award approximately 20 new fellowships
by July 22, 2003. Undergraduate level students may receive support for
their final two years of undergraduate study and a Summer Internship at
an EPA facility between their junior and senior years. The fellowship
program provides up $17,000 per year of support. This amount covers a
$4,500 9-month stipend, $2,500 for authorized expenses, and up to $10,000
for tuition and fees. The Summer Internship stipend provides $7,500 for
support for the three month period. This amount includes a 3-month stipend
for $6000, $1000 for travel to and from the summer internship site, and
$500 for travel while at the site if needed.