Eight Nicholas School Students Named 2004-05 Conservation Fellows
Doris Duke Conservation Fellowships are awarded to graduate students who show outstanding promise as future leaders in nonprofit or governmental conservation
DURHAM, N.C. -- Eight students at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences have been named 2004-2005 Doris Duke Conservation Fellows.
Doris Duke Conservation Fellowships are awarded to graduate students who show outstanding promise as future leaders in nonprofit or governmental conservation in the United States.
To date, fellowships have been awarded to 46 Nicholas School students who are pursuing their Master of Environmental Management degrees. Selected by the school, fellows receive up to $30,000 to support tuition, an internship at a nonprofit conservation organization and educational loan repayment for fellows who pursue careers in nonprofit or public section conservation.
Created in 1996, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, based in New York City, seeks to improve the quality of people's lives by preserving natural environments, nurturing the arts, seeking cures for disease and helping to protect children from abuse and neglect.
This year's fellows are listed below, alphabetically by state and hometown, along with their program of study at the Nicholas School and their internship organization:
CALIFORNIA
Carlsbad -- Tamara Gagnolet; conservation science and policy/master of forestry; Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project (North Carolina).
Palm Desert -- Meghan Hagerty; conservation science and policy; Aldo Leopold Institute, Glacier National Park (Montana).
IDAHO
Boise -- Eben Polk, environmental economics and policy/master of public policy; Global Policy & Governance (Geneva, Switzerland). Victor -- Chet Work, resource ecology; Teton Regional Land Trust (Idaho).
MARYLAND
Baltimore -- Katherine K. Armstrong; resource ecology and forest resource management; National Park Service Business Plan Initiative, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Michigan).
MASSACHUSETTS
Westwood -- Sarah Chamberlin; forest resource management; Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Tennessee).
OHIO
Toledo -- Kurt Fesenmyer; conservation science and policy; Land Trust for the Little Tennessee (North Carolina).
SOUTH CAROLINA
Anderson -- Julia Watkins; conservation science and policy; Greater Yellowstone Coalition & Sonoran Institute (Montana).