Southern Section A&WMA Scholarships

The purpose of the Southern Section A&WMA Scholarship Program is to assist graduate students pursuing careers in the areas of air & water pollution control and hazardous waste management, such as transportation control measures, acidic deposition, indoor air quality, new or improved control technology, physical or chemical characterization of pollutants and/or innovative policies that might achieve the same result. The applicant's goals should be directed toward achievement of A&WMA's purpose as stated in the Bylaws quoted below:

"The purpose of the Association is to promote better understanding of problems in the fields of air pollution and hazardous waste management within the geographic area of the Section and to provide a means for exchanging information directed toward solving those problems."

Applicants must be pursuing a graduate-level course of study and research leading to a career related to air or water quality, waste management, pollution prevention, environmental policy/compliance/law, or sustainability. Applicants must also be attending a full-time graduate school program at a university within the area of the A&WMA Southern Section (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi & Tennessee) for the 2022-2023 academic year.

For the 2022-2023 academic year, the Southern Section will present two $1,000 scholarship awards. The Section's Student Scholarship Awards Committee will review all applications received. Announcement of the scholarship award will be made by the Committee and awarded at the Southern Section Annual Meeting, to be held September 20-22, 2022 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chattanooga Downtown in Chattanooga, TN.

A link to the 2022-2023 SS-A&WMA scholarship application package is provided below.  If you have any questions, please contact Laura James at ljames@mdeq.ms.gov.

Follow the link to the 2022-2023 SS-A&WMA scholarship application package here or copy and paste the following URL in your web browser: http://www.ss-awma.org/ss-scholarship.html