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Joint Degree Candidate Receives Prestigious Knauss Fellowship
 Elizabeth
English, a joint degree candidate in the Nicholas School,
has been named a Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow
for 2005.
English, who was selected as an executive fellow, will work
in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office
of Sustainable Fisheries as its international affairs coordination
fellow.
She graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s
degree in environmental policy from Boston University. While
a student intern, English helped facilitate negotiations between
local fishers and indigenous populations on provincial fishery
policies in British Columbia.
English is a joint MEM degree student in coastal environmental
management and public policy at the Nicholas School and at
Duke’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. As part of
her studies she worked on a team in partnership with the North
Carolina Zoological Park. The students analyzed the effect
of rural sprawl on sustainable development in the region.
County commissioners are using their model as a blueprint
for smart growth. In summer 2003, English served as an intern
with the United Nations Environmental Program in Geneva, Switzerland.
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