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.
Learn more about current and former Baird Sustainability Fellows.