Graduate Student Spotlights

Syslab's and ENVS's Alumna Paromita Basak Awarded Prestigious NASA FINESST Grant

Paromita Basak

Paromita Basak, a graduate of  Syslab and the CEU's Environmental Science and Policy Department, has been awarded a $150,000 research grant by NASA’s Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) program. This prestigious grant will support her PhD research at the University of Maryland, where she is working on “Analyzing Spatial Co-Benefits of Carbon and Structural Diversity in Southeast Asia with GEDI.”

Alumna Dr. Yolanda Ariadne has drawn on her dissertation to publish two journal articles

Dr. Yolanda Ariadne Collins defended her Dissertation titled “REDD+ Unravelled: A Discursive Analysis of Neoliberal Forest Conservation in Guyana and Suriname” at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy in May, 2017 under the supervision of Dr. Guntra Aistara.

Amanda Winter, PhD graduate in 2016

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Dr. Amanda Winter is a research fellow at the University of Nottingham where she leads the Policy and Governance theme of the interdisciplinary Leverhulme project ‘Sustaining Urban Habitats’. Her current comparative work explores the multilevel urban governance of environmental policies in Nottingham and Shanghai.

How did CEU become #MyCEU? Meet our PhD alumna Mariann Molnár

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"A PhD at CEU was exactly what I needed: time, excellent facilities, inspiring courses, the help of committed academics and the friendship of fellow students.. All of these enabled me to pursue my dreams...." (Mariann Molnar, PhD alumna)