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Angela Boag Receives Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy

Rad Byerly, Jr., passed away in 2016 after an impressive career that included more than twenty years as staff on and ultimately Director of the Science Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He also was Director of the Center for Space and Geosciences Policy at CU Boulder. Rad spent the last years of his career with the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) at CU Boulder, where he was known as a mentor, adviser and friend with a wicked sense of humor.

CSTPR launched the Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy in recognition of Rad’s contributions to and impact on the CSTPR community. Thanks to several generous donations, CSTPR was able to offer a $1500 award to a graduate student this year. We are soliciting donations for future awards here.

Following a selection process, Angela Boag was chosen to receive the 2018 Byerly award. Angela Boag is a PhD Candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder investigating the relationships between climate change, forest management and land ownership. She has a Master’s in Forestry from the University of British Columbia and serves as Co-Chair of the Ecosystem-based Adaptation and Mitigation Thematic Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). As a member of the Communities and Forests in Oregon research project led by Dr. Joel Hartter, Angela studies how changing climate and wildfire regimes impact forest resilience, as well as how private forest owners adapt to changing conditions.

International Encyclopedia of Geography Receives CHOICE Award

Max Boykoff and Gesa Luedecke’s contributed a paper “Environment and the Media” to 2017 CHOICE Book Award Winner, The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Significantly, as the Encyclopedia’s Editor-in-Chief Douglas Richardson noted, “this six-year encyclopedia project also resulted in building a collaborative international community of leading geography scholars and researchers who served as editors and authors, and with the international geographical societies and associations with whom the AAG interacted throughout the creation of The International Encyclopedia of Geography.”

CU’s Inaugural Colorado Science and Engineering Policy Fellowship

CU Engineering’s Michelle Lin, Sage Sherman and Abby Oglesby are the 2018 fellowship winners.

Policy is increasingly playing a hand in what guides the technical world. That’s why CU Engineering in partnership with the CU Office of Government Relations and the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research have teamed up with Colorado state representatives Chris Hansen and Bob Rankin to bring to life the Colorado Science and Engineering Policy Fellowship. This fellowship will enable STEM students to pull back the curtain on the public policy arena and help bridge the gap between STEM disciplines and the policy-making process at the state level.

CU Engineering’s Michelle Lin, Sage Sherman and Abby Oglesby are the 2018 fellowship winners. Over the course of the fellowship, Michelle, Sage, and Abby, along with students from institutions across the state, will learn about the policy-making process at the Capitol while splitting their time between outside activities. These add-ons include visiting institutions where technology and policy intersect, sitting in with committees aligned with the policy interests from their applications, and lastly, researching their own policy proposal.

As part of their fellowship they’ll take part in a legislative boot camp at the Capitol and visit NREL, Google’s Boulder campus, Panasonic, Xcel Energy, National Wind Technology Center and more. They’ll close their capstone research with a presentation day at the Capitol in July. Click here to learn more about the program.

Flood Modelling and Assessments for Downstream Communities of Koka Dam, Ethiopia

CSTPR Receives CU Green Office Certification

ITG 2018 Comedy & Climate Change Video Winners Announced