Sara Meerow was recently awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, the Menakka and Essel Bailey Fellowship, and first place in the AAG Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group Student Research Competition.

The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students in their last year working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious and risk-taking.

The Menakka and Essel Bailey Fellowship is awarded to graduate students pursuing research, field work, cultural experience, or other study relevant to their graduate degree, preferably in the areas of public health, health care, or environmental work in South or Southeast Asia (excluding China or Japan).

The American Association of Geographers Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group Student Research Competition provides an annual award to support graduate research in the area of human dimensions of global change.