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The Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson

The Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism

To help educate leaders who will build a more sustainable world, the Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism awards $100,000 each year to a prominent individual or group dedicated to preserving the planet and its resources. The winner then serves a residency at Dickinson to help students prepare to combat climate change and restore the natural world.

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2026 Rose-Walters Prize Recipient: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

2026 Rose-Walters Prize Recipient: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, teacher, co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities, and the author of What if We Get it Right?: Visions of Climate Futures.

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College Farm interns. Photo by Carl Socolow 77.
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Global Leader in Sustainability Education

The Rose-Walters Prize is one of many ways Dickinson is a global leader in sustainability education. From achieving carbon neutrality to regularly being recognized as a Sierra magazine “Cool School,” Dickinson has established a decadeslong international reputation as a premier college for tomorrow’s leaders in environmental activism and advocacy. 


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1 in the nation
No. 1 Overall Top Performer among baccalaureate institutions
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education's (AASHE) "2024 Sustainable Campus Index"

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10
Top 50 Green Colleges
the Princeton Review
AASHE awarded a "STARS Gold Rating"
as measured by the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS).
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education's (AASHE)

GLOBAL LEADER IN SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION

GLOBAL LEADER IN SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION

Learn more about how Dickinson is recognized as a global leader in sustainability education.

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Past Rose-Walters Prize Recipients 

Past Rose-Walters Prize Recipients 

The Rose-Walters prize has connected Dickinson students with thought-leaders from the Clean Air Task Force, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and other prominent organizations for workshops and seminars on advocacy, behavioral change and environmental law. It’s also brought to campus award-winning artists and writers raising awareness for climate change like Mark Ruffalo, Elizabeth Kolbert and Bill McKibben. 

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