Science & Outdoors
Ali Cordie, Theresa Ford and Jennifer Webster each received the prestigious Gaylord Nelson Earth Day 2008 Fellowships.
Three CNR graduate students receive fellowships
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Three CNR graduate students recently received the Wilderness Society’s prestigious Gaylord Nelson Earth Day 2008 Fellowships. Jennifer Webster of Mount Horeb, Wis., Theresa Ford of Rosendale, Wis., and Allison Cordie of Sartell, Minn., each received $3,000 for making significant contributions to promoting conservation ethics and environmental education, and for exhibiting future leadership potential in the field of environmental education.
The recipients were notified last March about their award.
“It’s really an honor; as a senator, Gaylord Nelson was a really influential person in environmental ethics and conservation, so I was very grateful to be recognized under such a prestigious individual,” said Cordie, who is also an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
The Nelson Fellowship is provided to recognize the role of innovative research leading to actions designed to improve the environment or mitigate problems. Support is provided for students with an interest in research that potentially leads to broad-scale changes in environmental policy, including legal, regulatory or programmatic aspects.
Throughout his career, Gaylord Nelson catalyzed environmental action. He helped develop policies, programs, regulations, public awareness events and educational initiatives in response to potential and ongoing environmental problems brought forward by scientific communities.
Gaylord Nelson served 18 years in the U.S. Senate and was twice elected governor of Wisconsin. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Senator Nelson was a major force in shaping U.S. environmental policy, especially in protecting national forests, national parks and other public lands. He was also active on issues of population and sustainability.
