Doering selected as Institute on the Environment fellow
Aaron Doering, Ph.D., assistant professor in Curriculum and Instruction, was selected as a participant in the Institute on the Environment's first cohort of resident fellows following a rigorous selection process. The twenty fellows will begin their three-year appointments with the Institute in June 2009.
Doering will receive flexible funding to engage in creative research and problem solving, to develop new models of teaching and training, and to build new networks and partnerships. In addition, the fellows will take part in leadership development activities, along with ongoing seminars, roundtables and other public engagement efforts. "Our emphasis with this new program is on creative work: how can we give people the time and space to do truly original research and thinking," says Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment. "The fellowships will give both up-and-coming and established leaders the opportunity to work together on finding 'outside the box' solutions to the world's biggest environmental problems...This cohort of fellows is an amazing, eclectic group of thinkers and doers. They were drawn from the 'best and brightest' of the University, selected for their creativity and willingness to try new ideas".