Investing in the Future of the Environment
$70 Million Gift from Pete and Ginny Nicholas Will Support
New Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions p.4
The school has hired Josh Bond, formerly of Fuqua
School of Business, as Launch Coordinator. He will move quickly
to identify and establish partnerships with corporations and
non-profit groups – charter “stakeholders” in the Institute.
Bond also will work with a search committee seeking a permanent
Nicholas Institute director; begin planning with a faculty/staff/student
committee and the Office of the University Architect to design
the new building; and carry out a two-day conference that
will bring together faculty and stakeholders in Durham to
launch the mission of the Nicholas Institute and introduce
the new director.
The Nicholas Institute director will be a full
professor and senior associate dean who will develop a strategic
profile for the Institute that will foster the maximum impact
of the Nicholas School on targeted environmental issues.
“With leadership from both Duke’s current and
future president, Dean Schlesinger, Provost Peter Lange and
others, we will develop a plan by which the Nicholas School
will greatly expand its reach and influence in undertaking
critical research, training future leaders and informing the
debate about issues that range from global warming to the
quality of our air and water,” says Pete Nicholas. “We expect
this to be a collaborative effort involving many others on
the Duke campus and beyond. We’ll be working over the next
several months to define our strategy and enlist partners,
exemplifying how the Campaign for Duke can not only transform
the campus but also make a real impact on the world.”
The Nicholas School was formed as the School
of the Environment in 1991 bringing together the School of
Forestry and Environmental Studies on the Duke campus and
the Duke Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, N.C. In 1997, the
Department of Geology joined the school as the Division of
Earth and Ocean Sciences.
Today, the Nicholas School is among the premier
educational institutions in the training and preparation of
future environmental scientists, leaders in environmental
policy, and ecosystem managers.
Graduates of the Nicholas School dominate national
policy, and they are widely employed in industry, government,
and not-for-profit NGOs. Judged by the yield of admitted students,
especially relative to its major competitors, the Nicholas
School stands at the top of its peer group of professional
schools of environment, which also includes schools at Michigan,
UC-Santa Barbara, and Yale.
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