WEHA Stipends
WEHA offers to their members stipends to attend the NEHA Annual Educational Conference or WEHA Educational Conference. The stipends are a way for WEHA to help develop leadership skills for the professionals within our association. The WEHA Leadership stipend is given to a selected WEHA member that have shown leadership qualities in environmental health or WEHA. The Environmental Health Professional stipend is awarded to WEHA members based on a lottery system.
WEHA Leadership Stipend
2020 - Hsing-Yi Hsieh
2019 - Carrie Pohjola
2018 - Nancy Eggleston
2017 - Trista Groth
2016 - Brian Hobbs
2015 - Shane Sanderson
2014 - Stephanie Sticka
2013 - John Hausbeck
2012 - Laura Temke
2011 - Katie McCullough
2010 - Mark Melotik
2009 - Natalie Vandeveld & Beth Cleary
Environmental Health Professional Stipend
2019 Recipients:
Carol Drury
Samuel Flatland
Courtney Langosch
Mark Melotik
Kailas Nagaraj
Douglas Schaefer
Maddie Wojciuk
WEHA Scholarships
For each of the past 30 years, the Wisconsin Environmental Health Association has given a scholarship to a student in the field of environmental health. WEHA believes one method to improve the field of environmental and public health is to invest in the future professionals. To strengthen the field of environmental and public health and to further expand the association’s support for education activities, an additional scholarship was created in 1999. WEHA feels very strongly about the scholarship program and has established an endowment fund in order to perpetuate it.
Currently, two scholarships are given out once a year at the Annual Educational Conference.
The Wayne Kopp Memorial / WEHA Academic Scholarship - To promote professionals within Environmental Health, this scholarship is to offered to an individual enrolled in a degree-granting program.
The Robert R. Nelson Award / WEHA Environmental Health Scholarship - The recipient of this scholarship will be a full-time junior or senior student at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and will be known for their outstanding academic achievement, dedication and commitment as a student in the field of environmental and/or public health. Faculty from the UW Eau Claire will nominate an individual to receive this scholarship.
Wayne Kopp Memorial Scholarship 2023
The Wayne Kopp Memorial / WEHA Academic Scholarship will be offered annually to an individual enrolled full time in a degree-granting program. The amount designated for this scholarship is $1,500. The WEHA Awards Committee shall give priority to individuals pursuing a degree or advanced degree in environmental health and shall consider the background of the candidate and any other relevant factors. No person may receive the award more than once. Recipients of the scholarship will be dependent on being present at the WEHA Fall Educational Conference in Appleton, WI to receive the award.
Closed for 2023
* Eligible areas of environmental health include general environmental health, microbiology, food protection/food science, water/wastewater, solid and hazardous waste, occupational safety and health, healthy housing, indoor air quality, industrial hygiene, disaster and emergency preparedness.