Emily Nocito was elected by the United Government of Graduate Students (UGGS) assembly to be the Vice President-Internal for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Joanna Lambert was recently featured in Popular Science in an article on the multiple wildlife sightings that have been occurring since the COVID-19 crisis.
Tara Ippolito is a recipient of the Graduate Student Fellowship from NSF! Her PI, Matt Burgess, had this to say about her most recent achievement, "a very exciting and well-deserved honor for Tara!".
ENVS PhD candidate Rayna Benzeev was awarded a Fulbright US Award, which will fund her to spend nine months in Brazil in 2021. Rayna is studying forest landscape restoration in Brazil's Atlantic Forest.
M.S / J.D. Candidate, Alex J. Hamilton, is receives the Wyss Scholarship to "support the graduate-level education of a new generation of leaders in western land conservation."
Jenn successfully defended her dissertation on March 30th titled "Re-Creating the American West: An Examination of the Impacts of Creative District Policy in Rural Colorado". It looks at the social, spatial, and economic outcomes for rural communities that engage with the creative district policy framework through a mixed method case study approach.
“I’m really thankful to CU, which game me this sort of cross-pollination and promotion of interdisciplinary skills,” he says. “I’m able to engage in these seemingly disconnected pursuits in one place. That’s kind of cool.”
