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Nicholas School Creates Two New Program Areas for Fall 2004

The Nicholas School has added two new program areas to its Master of Environmental Management program and is making smaller changes in two of its current concentrations. At the request of Dean William H. Schlesinger, the Nicholas faculty education committee analyzed current programs and offered areas for potential curriculum improvement. The purpose was to add vibrant programs of current, critical importance to environmental issues.

As a result, the Nicholas School created Global Environmental Change and Environmental Health and Security tracks for students entering in fall of 2003.

Bruce Corliss, professor of earth and ocean sciences, and Thomas Crowley, Nicholas Professor of Earth Systems Science, developed the new Global Environmental Change program to train students not only in global climate change, but also the widespread changes occurring in the world’s terrestrial environments, oceans, and coastlines.

Recognizing that altered ecological processes affect human well-being, either through anthropogenic or natural phenomena, David Hinton, Nicholas Professor of Environmental Quality, developed the Environmental Health and Security track. This program will have strengths in water and air-shed management, risk assessment, environmental epidemiology, occupational health and global change.

In an effort to further define the breadth and scope of current programs, Resource Economics and Policy was changed to “Environmental Economics and Policy.” In addition, the Resource Ecology program now has two specializations from which students can choose: Ecosystem Science and Management or Conservation Science and Policy. The two specializations provide complementary but alternative perspectives.

Other program areas include Coastal Environmental Management; Environmental Toxicology, Chemistry and Risk Assessment; and Water and Air Resources.

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