2025 Environment & Society Fellowship

The Environment & Society Fellowship is a renewable $3,000 scholarship awarded annually to high-achieving incoming students with an interest in the environment. Environment and Society Fellows also receive priority consideration for CES internships and our flagship Chesapeake Semester program, as well the chance to work on research skills, meet with visiting experts, and take behind-the-scenes looks at partner institutions like the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, the National Aquarium in Baltimore, and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

Admitted students who are interested in exploring environmental science or studies as a major, minor, or area of focus are encouraged to apply for the Environment and Society Fellowship.

Students wishing to be considered for the fellowship, will need to submit a 500-word essay no later than March 3, 2025.

For additional information or assistance about the Environmental & Society Fellowship, please call or email Shannon Carter at 410-778-7700 or swhitaker2@washcoll.edu.

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Why are you interested in being a CES Fellow?

Topic for Application Prompt: Environmental Justice in Your Community

Prompt to Explore:

An imaginary benefactor has offered all the dollars needed to address an environmental justice issue (climate justice, social justice, or food justice) in your local community.
Identify the issue you are choosing, describe stakeholders in the community and beyond, propose one or more solutions and provide evidence to support your ideas.
Explain why your solutions are relevant to the problem, the community and yourself.

Feel free to research issues in your community if you are less familiar with this topic.
Here is an excellent tool to use: https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen

Please submit your response to this prompt in either a:

-500 Word Essay
-5-minute video or
-Power Point or Google Slides Presentation, voiced over by applicant

Link to Video/PowerPoint/Slides presentation

2025 Environment & Society Fellowship

Do You. Do it All. Do it Here.