Verner E. Suomi Scholarship Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Physical Sciences

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) invites applications for the 2023 Verner E. Suomi Scholarship.

Outstanding high school seniors who plan to attend a University of Wisconsin System undergraduate program in atmospheric science, climate science, environmental science, remote sensing, applied physics, data science or a related field are encouraged to apply.

The scholarship honors Professor Suomi’s lifelong commitment to undergraduate education, for teaching and mentoring undergraduate students throughout his tenure at the UW-Madison. He was the founding director of the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), the founder of CIMSS, and a faculty member of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, which he co-founded. Suomi is widely known as the “father of satellite meteorology” for his transformational contributions to the field and is considered to be one of the most influential meteorologists of the 20th century.