A new $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will help Geologist Joe Levy study permafrost thaw in Antarctica and create a new integrated education plan for training student research drone pilots.
By 2022, it is projected that New York State will have a shortage of 10,000 teachers. To help address the deficit, two ĢƵ professors have been tasked with building and enhancing the high school physics teacher education program.
The BBC writes, “Some forests are more than 1,000 years old ... Paradoxically, humans have both protected them yet pose the biggest threat to their future.”
Ellen Percy Kraly, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of geography and environmental studies, has taken up the 2019 Willy Brandt Guest Professorship in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) at Sweden’s Malmö University. The professorship brings senior migration scholars like Kraly to Malmö to contribute research in IMER, offer public lectures and seminars, and guide graduate students.
The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has named ĢƵ as one of the nation’s top producers of Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the 2018–2019 academic year.
Randy Fuller, Russell ĢƵ Distinguished University Professor of biology and environmental studies, has received the 2019 Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Freshwater Science (SFS).