Group Awards

Outstanding Science Award for Furthering the Mission of the U.S.G.S. Cooperative Research Units Program –
Dick Neves, Mike Vaughan, Paul Angermeier

Alumni Awards

Outstanding Graduate Alumni Achievement Award – Mitchell A. Byrd
Friend of the College Award – Mitchell A. and Lois E. Byrd

Awards for Instruction

Diggs Teaching Scholar Award – Brian Murphy
American Fisheries Society Excellence in Fisheries Education Award – Eric Hallerman
Curriculum Clubs’ Faculty Award – Marcella Kelly

Graduate Student Awards

CNR Outstanding Doctoral Graduate Student Award – Daniel Catlin
A.B. Massey Honorarium – Sarah DuRant, Amy Villamagna
AdvanceVT Fellowship – Amy Villamagna
Burd S. McGinnes Graduate Fellowship – Daniel Catlin, Jessica Homyack
Robert L. and Esther S. Youngs Award for Excellence in Written Contribution to Natural Resources – Christine Bergeron
International Student Scholarship – Maria Guadalupe Bravo-Vinaja, Jose Bernardo Mesa
CONACYT Scholarship – Maria Guadalupe Bravo-Vinaja
Royal Thai Scholarship – Pawapol Kongchum
Dean’s Diversity Scholarship – Joyce Barkley
Patrick Scanlon Memorial Scholarship – Daniel Catlin
Fulbright Scholarship – Claudia Wultsch
George and Gladys Cunningham Doctoral Scholarship Award – James Dwyer
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship – Sarah Orlofske, Brian Gerber
Virginia Tech Future Professoriate: Global Perspectives – Daniel Catlin

Undergraduate Awards

Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement – Koan Heindel
Outstanding Sophomore Scholar Award – Daniel Schultz
VT Chapter American Fisheries Society Outstanding Member Award – Meghann Vincie
FiW Graduate Student Association Outstanding Member Award – Thomas Gorman
VT Wildlife Society Outstanding Member Award – Christopher Latimer
Xi Sigma Pi Outstanding Member Award – Nathan Lambert
Dean’s International Study Scholarship – Adrian Roadman
Class of 1952 Wildlife Scholarship – David Hogue
Richard H. Cross, Jr. Scholarship – Staci Hudy
Robert H. Giles, Jr. Scholarship – Trevor Michaels
Henry S. Mosby Memorial Scholarship – Nathan Lambert, Heather Sparks, Daniel Schultz
William O. Ross Scholarship – Kirk Dunn, Koan Heindel

Best Paper Awards

World Aquaculture Society – Best Poster Award – Guillaume Salze
Research Symposia Awards:
- First Place (Natural, Physical, and Biological Sciences) – Meghann Vincie
- Paper Presentations – Sarah Orlofske

Runner-Up – Best Paper Award: Palmer, G., J. Williams, M. Scott, E. Hallerman, K. Finne, N. Johnson, D. Dutton, and B. Murphy.
Genetic marker-assisted restoration of the presumptive native walleye stock in the upper New River, Virginia and West Virginia. 61st Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Charleston, WV, October 21-24, 2007.

Runner-Up – Best Student Paper Award: Davis, J.E., and E.M. Hallerman.
Population genetic characterization of southwestern Virginia brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) populations. Brook Trout Restoration Symposium, Annual Meeting of the Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society, Wheeling, WV, February 28-March 1, 2008.

Best Poster Award:Sunarto, S. Klenzendorf, M. Hutajulu, M. Kelly , M. Vaughan, and J. Nichols.
Sumatran tigers in Riau: Estimating the abundance in three major habitat types. Felid Biology and Conservation Conference. September 2007, Oxford, England.

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