Michelle Stewart

Michelle Stewart , Executive Director, Yampa Valley Sustainability Council Michelle O. Stewart , Ph.D. 2014, is currently the Executive Director (ED) of Yampa Valley Sustainability Council (YVSC) , based in Steamboat Springs, CO. YVSC is guided by the mission "to serve as a resource and catalyst for building a sustainable...

Michelle will receive a non-stipendiary fellowship in the Harvard Kennedy School's Program on Science, Technology and Society (STS) for academic year 2011-2012. While there, Michele will continue her work on how "expertise" and "sustainability" take form in the local context of harvesters' daily interactions and livelihoods in Northest Yunnan, China...

Michelle Stewart receives Research Associate Award University of Wisconsin-Madison NSF IGERT Training Program on Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Southwest China: The faces of “gold”: Towards greater understanding of the ecological and social aspects of Tibetan harvesting of Cordyceps sinensis in NW Yunnan: (PI) $3000

Michelle Olsgard and Natalie Koch, both graduate students in the CU-Boulder Geography department, received an award despite there being only five such fellowships awarded in all of Geography in the US. The National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of...

Michelle Stewart receives IIE Fulbright Award: “Assessing the sustainability of Tibetan harvesting of rare endemic fungus Cordyceps sinensis” (PI) USD $18,200

Michelle Stewart receives Research Associate Award University of Wisconsin-Madison NSF IGERT Training Program on Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development Southwest China: “Exploring the ‘Himalayan Gold’ Rush: Tibetan Harvesting of Cordyceps sinensis and Implications for Management” (PI) USD $2000