Udall Foundation Announces 2025 Udall Scholars
Posted:
5/14/2025
The Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation (Udall Foundation) is pleased to announce that 55 students from 45 colleges and universities have been selected as 2025 Udall Scholars. This year's class was selected on the basis of commitment to careers in the environment, Tribal public policy, or Native health care; leadership potential; record of public service; and academic achievement. The 2025 Udall Scholars were selected from 381 candidates nominated by 175 colleges and universities. Thirty-eight Scholars intend to pursue careers related to the environment, 10 Native American or Alaska Native Scholars intend to pursue careers related to Tribal public policy, and seven Native American or Alaska Native Scholars intend to pursue careers related to Native health care.
Selected statistics on the 2025 competition
Applicant Statistics
- 381 eligible applicants were nominated by their academic institution.
- 333 students applied in the Environmental category, 29 in Tribal Public Policy, and 19 in Native Health Care.
- 377 applicants came from four-year institutions and four came from two-year colleges.
- 121 Sophomores and 260 Juniors.
- 175 institutions nominated students; two schools nominated students for the first time.
- Nominees came from 46 states, the District of Columbia, and 29 Tribes and Alaska Native Villages.
Scholar Statistics
- 55 Scholars and 55 Honorable Mentions were selected.
- 38 Scholarships were awarded in the Environmental category, 10 in Tribal Public Policy, and seven in Native Health Care.
- 12 Sophomores and 43 Juniors.
- Two Scholars were also Scholars in 2024; one Scholar was an Honorable Mention in 2024.
- 45 institutions have Scholars; four of those have Scholars for the first time and 13 have Scholars for the first time in three or more years.
- Scholars come from 31 states, the District of Columbia, and 12 Tribes.
Each Scholarship provides up to $7,000 for eligible academic expenses for the Scholar’s junior or senior year of academic study. Since the program’s inception in 1996, the Udall Foundation has awarded 2,008 Udall Scholarships totaling over $10.745 million and 1,399 Honorable Mentions.
Follow these links to learn more about the Udall Undergraduate Scholarship and meet the 2025 Udall Scholars.
More Information
For more information about the Udall Foundation, please visit About us. For additional information about the Scholarship Program, please contact Jason Curley at (520) 240-6325 or curley@udall.gov.
About the Udall Foundation
The Morris K. Udall Foundation was established by the U.S. Congress in 1992 as an independent executive branch agency to honor Morris K. Udall's lasting impact on this Nation’s environment, public lands, and natural resources, and his support of the rights and self-governance of Native Americans and Alaska Natives. In 2009, Congress enacted legislation to also honor Stewart L. Udall for his half century of distinguished national leadership in environmental and Native American policy. The agency is known today as the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation (Udall Foundation) and is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.
The Udall Foundation is authorized by Congress to:
- Award Scholarships, Internships, and Fellowships for study in fields related to the environment and to Native Americans and Alaska Natives in fields related to health care and Tribal public policy.
- Connect youth to the Nation’s public lands and natural resources to foster greater understanding, appreciation, stewardship, and enjoyment of those lands and resources through photography, positive outdoor experiences, and environmental education through the Stewart L. Udall Parks in Focus® Program.
- Provide funding to the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy to conduct policy research and outreach on the environment and related themes.
- Provide funding to the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy, a program of the Udall Center, for research, education, and outreach on Native American and Alaska Native health care issues and Tribal public policy issues.
- Provide funding to Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries to serve as the repository for the papers of Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall and other such public papers as may be appropriate and assure such papers' availability to the public.
- Provide impartial collaboration, consensus-building, training, and conflict resolution services on a wide range of environmental, natural and cultural resources, Tribal, and public lands issues, conflicts, and disputes involving the Federal Government through the John S. McCain III National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution.
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