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Eight Nicholas School Students Named 2004-05 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. The fellowships are supported by grants
from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to selected universities,
chosen for their superior interdisciplinary environmental
programs and a commitment to education conservation practitioners.
To date, fellowships have been awarded
to 46 Nicholas School students pursuing 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
alphabetically along with their program of study and their
internship organization:
1. Katherine K. Armstrong
of Baltimore,Md.; resource ecology and forest resource management;
National Park Service Business Plan Initiative, Sleeping Bear
Dunes National Lakeshore (Michigan).
2. Sarah Chamberlin
of Westwood,Mass.; forest resource management; Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (Tennessee).
3. Kurt Fesenmyer
of Toledo, Ohio; conservation science and policy; Land Trust
for the Little Tennessee (North Carolina).
4. Tamara Gagnolet
of Calsbad, Calif.; conservation science and policy/master
of forestry; Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project (North
Carolina).
5. Meghan Hagerty
of Palm Desert, Calif.; conservation science and policy; Aldo
Leopold Institute, Glacier National Park (Montana).
6. Eben Polk
of Boise, Idaho; environmental economics and policy/master
of public policy; Global Policy & Governance (Geneva,
Switzerland).
7. Julia Watkins
of Anderson, S.C.; conservation science and policy; Greater
Yellowstone Coalition & Sonoran Institute (Montana).
8. Chet Work
of Victor, Idaho; resource ecology;Teton Regional Land Trust
(Idaho).
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