Haury Program Awards Six 2025 Tribal Resilience Graduate Research Awards to Support Academic Pathways and University – Community Collaborations

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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. “We are delighted to announce this year’s Haury Program Graduate Research Awards,” shared Toni Massaro, Haury Program Director. “All of the grantees are committed to using their advanced training here to advance tribal environmental resilience goals with skill and respect. Few things make us prouder to be part of the U of A team that shares these goals, and to use our resources to support them.

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."

For the full announcement and more details on individual research projects and awardees, please follow this link.

Please join the Haury Program and the Arizona Institute for Resilience September 3^rd, 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.