With financial
support from the UA
Institute for the Environment
and
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Udall Center for Studies in
Public Policy has selected four UA faculty members as Udall Center
Fellows for
2010-11.
FellowsBenedict Colombi,
assistant professor of American Indian studies, and
Connie Woodhouse, associate
professor of geography and development, will be Udall Center
Environmental
Policy Fellows supported by the Institute for the Environment.
Sandy Dall'erba,
assistant professor of geography and development, and
Linda Green, associate
professor of anthropology, will be Udall Center Fellows supported by the
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
ProjectsColombi will
design, test, and implement a survey of
American Indian tribes in Arizona to inform the creation of a graduate
certificate and joint degree program for students in the UA American
Indian
Studies Program interested in natural resources management.
Woodhouse will develop a graduate certificate program
in communicating and co-producing science to provide UA students in the
environmental sciences and other disciplines with the theory and
practical
experience to communicate better with diverse stakeholders.
Dall'erba will study regional economic development,
public expenditures, and spillover effects to guide implementation of
the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and future regional
development
policy.
Green will examine the reintegration of Yup'ik combat
veterans into their rural communities of southwestern Alaska and will
assess
the effectiveness of federal, state, and tribal health care policies
intended
to guide social reintegration of veterans.
Since the inception
of the Udall Center Fellows program in 1990, the center has named 121
fellows
from 37 departments and programs across the UA.