{"id":9011,"date":"2017-09-01T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?page_id=9011"},"modified":"2024-08-20T14:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T18:43:32","slug":"people-and-places-fellowships-focus-on-policy-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/people-and-places-fellowships-focus-on-policy-water\/","title":{"rendered":"PEOPLE AND PLACES: Fellowships Focus on Policy, Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Every year, North Carolina Sea Grant<\/a> offers a variety of fellowships to talented graduate students around the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This year that includes three finalists to study marine policy in Washington, D.C., as well as five others who will explore water and coastal issues in North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are pleased to work with national and state partners to provide these focused opportunities,\u201d shares Susan White<\/a>, North Carolina Sea Grant executive director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Three North Carolina graduate students are moving on as finalists for the 2018 Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship<\/a>, sponsored by the National Sea Grant College Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fellows spend one year working in the nation\u2019s capital on marine-policy issues. Later this fall, finalists will meet with potential host offices in the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. The fellowships will begin Feb. 1, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Knauss fellowship continues to be an excellent bridge for talented students to transition from graduate programs to the working world, with a focus on the roles of coastal and marine science in federal policy,\u201d adds John Fear<\/a>, North Carolina Sea Grant deputy director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Five students initially were selected from the state, but two accepted other job offers. Meet the three 2018 Knauss fellow finalists from North Carolina who will continue with the matching process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n North Carolina Sea Grant also partners with the Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina system<\/a> to provide fellowships for graduate students across the state. This year, the program sought projects on current water and coastal issues in North Carolina with a focus on reaching new and diverse audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe recognized that there are groups of faculty and students, as well as communities in our state, who have been underserved and underrepresented in terms of water-related research,\u201d notes Nicole Wilkinson, WRRI coordinator for research and outreach. \u201cWe wanted to target our funding in such a way that it created opportunities to address some of those gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2017 fellows are from East Carolina University<\/a>, North Carolina State University<\/a>, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/a> and UNC-Greensboro<\/a>. They are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more about North Carolina Sea Grant fellowships, go to ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/fellowships<\/a>. Or, contact John Fear at jmfear@ncsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This article was published in the Autumn 2017<\/a> issue of <\/em>Coastwatch.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nNATIONAL KNAUSS FELLOWS<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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