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Saterson to Head Center for Environmental Solutions
Kathryn A. Saterson, who has more than 20 years experience
analyzing, designing and managing programs and policies to
mitigate human impacts on the environment, has been named
the executive director of the new Center for Environmental
Solutions at Duke University.
The multidisciplinary center is a universitywide initiative
engaging the insights of multiple disciplines to develop creative
solutions to complex environmental challenges. Launched in
November 2000, the center is housed in the Nicholas School,
and many of the school's faculty participate in its activities.
Faculty include Dean William H. Schlesinger; founding Dean
Norman L. Christensen; Ronie Garcia-Johnson; Randall Kramer;
Marie Lynn Miranda; and Jonathan Wiener, who also is faculty
director of the center.
Saterson is the former director of the Brandywine Conservancy's
Environmental Management Center in Chadds Ford, Pa. She joined
the Conservancy in 1999, managing the Environmental Management
Center's planning and operations, and overseeing the three
principal programs -municipal assistance, conservation design
and land stewardship. From 1991-1999, Saterson was executive
director of the Biodiversity Support Program, a consortium
of the World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and the
World Resources Institute. She led the program's efforts to
conserve biological diversity in developing nations.
"I look forward to working with faculty from a wide range
of departments to identify and carry out the interdisciplinary
research needed to improve environmental policy and practice,"
says Saterson. "Collaboration among Duke's impressive faculty
and other colleagues presents an exciting opportunity to help
solve some of our most pressing environmental problems."
Saterson holds a bachelor of arts degree in biology from
Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. She received her master
of science degree in botany and her doctoral degree in biology
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Check out the center's Web site at www.nicholas.duke.edu/solutions.
For more information, you can call the center at (919) 613-8080
or e-mail solutions@nicholas.duke.edu.
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