Arlington student recognized for environmental leadership
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Sammie Trvalik, of Arlington, has been selected as a Baird Sustainability Fellow for advancing sustainability goals on or beyond the Dickinson College campus through excellence in scholarship, leadership and service.
Trvalik is a senior at the Carlisle, Pennsylvania, school.
Trvalik is one of 14 students selected for the program. Criteria for selection include high academic achievement, attainment of advanced-level sustainability competencies and dispositions through academic work and practice and evidence of a service project of exceptional impact related to sustainability. Established in 2012, the Baird Fellowship Program is named in honor of Spencer Fullerton Baird, a Dickinson alumnus, class of 1840, who became the first curator of the Smithsonian National Museum and is regarded as one of the nation’s leading naturalists of the 19th century.