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Please join the Haury Program and the Arizona Institute for Resilience September 3rd, 2025, at 10 a.m. at the UArizona Arizona Institute for Resilience at ENR2 Building, Room 595 or via Zoom to meet the 2025 Haury Tribal Resilience Graduate Research awardees, and learn about their work.
The 2025 awardees are Shawnell Damon, LaCher Pacheco, Chrisa Whitmore, Nieves Vázquez, Majerle Lister, and Matthew Tafoya. Their graduate research projects address a wide range of Indigenous Resilience topics relevant to water, energy and food, including studies of the intersection between the Covid 19 vaccine uptake and water security, water quality, impacts of frozen land tenure, access to healthy foods, environmental storytelling in picture books and science communication in water and soil quality research.
The Agnese Nelms Haury Program (Haury Program) is a unique University-embedded philanthropy created by a major bequest in 2014 to honor the life and work of Mrs. Agnese Nelms Haury. The Tribal Resilience Graduate Research Awards program was designed in 2021 to strengthen the academic pathways at the University of Arizona for Native American and Indigenous Resilience students and scholars.