Kerton Victory, MS

Kerton Victory, MS, a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Health Sciences program at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, was awarded an $18,000 Graduate Student Fellowship from the University of Arizona Water Sustainability Program (WSP).

Each year the WSP awards Graduate and Undergraduate fellowships to students studying any aspect of water resources relevant to water issues in the state of Arizona. These awards are to encourage and support students wishing to specialize in the field of water resources.

Making Arizona’s water supply safer and more sustainable is vital to the state’s economic development and quality of life. Victory is currently working on his dissertation to understand the risk perception, drinking water source, and quality in a low-income Latino community along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The mission of the UA Water Sustainability Program is to provide science-based technical, economic, legal, and policy expertise necessary for water development, use, and conservation in a rapidly growing, increasingly urban state.