Charlie Kontos Memorial Scholarship for Environmental Activism Awarded to High School Senior

Left to Right: Professor Paul Bologna, Montclair State University—worked with Charlie Kontos on the Fisher project; Logan Bateman; Silvio Laccetti; and Richard Lathrop—Charlie Kontos’ former advisor here at SEBS.

The Charlie Kontos Environmental Activist Award is named for Charlie Kontos, who passed away in 2010 and was, at the time, enrolled as a doctoral student in the Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program administered by the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Before his premature passing at age 33, Kontos had already made a significant contribution to wildlife biology studies with …