Campus & Community UNC geography professor chosen as leadership fellow
| UNC geography professor chosen as leadership fellow |
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| Tuesday, April 01, 2008 | |
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Martin Doyle, Ph.D., associate professor in the geography department in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences and the UNC Institute for the Environment, has been chosen as a 2008 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow.
The fellowship, based at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, is a competitive fellowship for mid-career academic environmental scientists. It recognizes rising stars working on environmental science issues who are taking on leadership positions in their fields and within their universities. Doyle is one of 19 scientists chosen this year to receive training to help them become stronger leaders and to deliver scientific information more effectively to audiences outside of academia, including journalists, policymakers, business leaders and the public. As part of the fellowship program, Doyle will participate in two week-long training sessions that include practice media interviews and testimony at a mock congressional hearing. Doyle’s research areas include river processes, infrastructure and its impacts on the environment, and the political economy of rivers. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University and has been at UNC since 2002. The Leopold Leadership Program, established in 1998, is funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. UNC Institute for the Environment contact: Danielle Del Sol, (919) 962-0965, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it News Services contact: Patric Lane, (919) 962 8596, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |