Student Support
The Graham Institute encourages students to be as knowledgeable as possible about environmental sustainability issues ... and how to address them. With this in mind, the Institute offers and co-sponsors a variety of scholarships, grants, incentives programs, and other initiatives to help empower and support students in their environmental-sustainability pursuits. Examples of our student support include:
- Program for the Environment (PitE) Field Experiences: Between 2006-2009, we awarded more than 20 merit-based scholarships to undergraduate students in the Program for the Environment, thus giving them the financial support necessary to take on challenging, field-based projects related to environmental sustainability.
- Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge: We oversee the Dow Sustainability Student Challenge, an academic-incentive program that offers cash prizes to graduate students who submit the most innovative ideas for sustainability. The Graham Institute is administering this competition annually through 2010.
- Student Sustainability Initiative (SSI): Residing within the Graham Institute, this student organization helps to coordinate and promote student environmental sustainbility initiatives throughout the university. As such, it also oversees a small-scale grant program dedicated solely to funding and supporting student environmental sustainbility projects at U-M.
Please revisit this website regularly for the latest information about our student-support initiatives.