Announcements
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Study Abroad in China: The College of Natural Resource’s Study Abroad in China melds a cultural and conservation immersion experience. We’ve chosen the Yunnan province in the southwest of China as the location for this experience and for good reason. Yunnan embodies many of the natural resource management and sustainable development challenges faced worldwide, and in a spectacular setting. An internationally recognized biodiversity “hotspot,” with elevations ranging from a mere 250 feet to more than 22,000 feet, more plant and wildlife diversity than anywhere else in China, an economy in transition, urban expansion, and poverty and literacy needs, Yunnan could well be the poster child for the global challenges of balancing sustainable economic development and environmental conservation.
Working closely with our Chinese partners, students will be immersed in an international educational experience that would be nearly impossible to duplicate, with opportunities to discuss firsthand the context, challenges, and potential solutions with Chinese students, faculty, managers, activists, and citizens. The program blends an applied examination of social issues faced in Yunnan, and the “real-world” resource conservation challenges associated with them. Students will be expected to synthesize these components to produce team-based case study final reports.
Please click here to see the China brochure.
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This semester we have held elections for the MNR program's first faculty curriculum committee. Over the coming months we will be examining course offerings, program requirements, and other issues.
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The MNR program has relationships with a number of government agencies, consultants, and non-governmental organizations that offer natural resources-related internships that can be both volunteer and paying, and that can be used as the research foundation for your final capstone papers. These include the U.S. Forest Service, Booz Allen Hamilton, the Cheetah Conservation Fund, the Bushmeat Crisis Taskforce, the National Association of State Foresters, and the Society of American Foresters. Please feel free to contact me about current opportunities.
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This semester marks the beginning of our new relationship with the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia. Law students there will be able to take our distance classes as they work toward a graduate certificate in natural resources, while our students will have access to their Environmental Law class and others as they are developed. Please take a look at the flyer announcing the program.
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The Presidential Management Fellow program will begin accepting applications again this fall. The College of Natural Resources has placed two students into this highly competitive and prestigious program in past years and we have three more applicants being reviewed for this year's class. If you have an interest in employment in the federal government and have a diverse and outstanding academic background, please take a look at www.pmf.opm.gov and feel free to contact me with any questions. I serve as the College of Natural Resources liaison for the program and would be happy to speak to any of you about it.