PhD Awards

PhD Student Diane A. Matar wins prestigious IUCN Award for her outstanding contribution to conservation management.

January 12, 2012

Diane A. Matar, 1st Year PhD Student in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy is a top-tier winner of the IRF-WCPA Young Conservationist Award for 2011: http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/diane_matar.pdf 

Fouad Khan, ENV SCI Doctoral Student, Finalist of the European Greens Essay Contest "Women and Climate Change"

January 11, 2012

Fouad Khan, 1st Year PhD Student in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy.  His dissertation topic is “Scaling in Cities as an Indicator of Energy Consumption”

He was a finalist of the European Greens Essay Contest "Women and Climate Change"

Below is an abstract from his essay "Nani, Khidr and the Aesthetic Bias of the Universe - Why Gender Inclusion Matters" published in the book of Prize Winners and Finalists of the European Greens Essay Contest.