Environmental studies program launched

Parks & Recreation, April, 2004

NC Beautiful, an organization established to promote environmental education and stewardship across the state, finalized plans in February to fund a graduate research fellowship in environmental sciences engineering and ecology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The $10,000 fellowship will be part of NC Beautiful's Environmental Studies Program, which each year provides financial support to North Carolina graduate and undergraduate students whose studies and pace-setting research focuses on enhancing the state's environment or advancing environmental steward-ship. Efforts at UNCCH will focus on the environment as it affects human health. "Today's students will play a critical role in protecting our state's environmental quality for decades to come," said NC Beautiful managing director Jane Rogers.

NC Beautiful will coordinate the program and selection of the fellowship recipient with Douglas Crawford-Brown, a professor in the UNC Department of Environmental Sciences and Studies, who is director of the university's Carolina Environmental Program. "Our students are working hard to make a difference in building environmental sustainability around the world," said Crawford-Brown. "We welcome the involvement of NC Beautiful in this mission."

For more information about the fellowship, contact NC Beautiful at ncbeautiful@bellsouth.net.