Climate Impacts Group scientist Meade Krosby honored by conservation organization

, a senior scientist with the , has received the 2019 Wilburforce Conservation Leadership Award for her work advancing biodiversity conservation under climate change.

The is from the , a private philanthropic organization that supports land, water and wildlife conservation efforts in western North America.

Meade was honored for her “impressive and highly relevant body of science scholarship and her dedication to the art and science of collaboration,” the organization wrote. “A great example of her dedication to connecting science to the climate change conversation is her in the Seattle Times about moving from despair about climate change to action.”

Krosby works with land and wildlife managers and policymakers to incorporate climate change into natural resource management. She is also the university deputy director of the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. Read more on the Climate Impacts Group .

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Carey Farquhar, School of Public Health vice dean, begins World Health Organization consulting assignment

, professor of global health, medicine and epidemiology and vice dean in the School of Public Health, has begun a six-month consulting assignment for the World Health Organization on HIV, hepatitis and sexually transmitted disease testing.

Farquhar will be based in Geneva, but plans to travel throughout West and Central Africa. She will map health care service delivery in up to 13 countries in that region, and work with ministries of health on country-specific ways to support training in carrying out the testing. She began her assignment Jan. 1.

“All of my work so far has been in East Africa. I have wanted to get back to West Africa for a long time,” Farquhar said. “With the World Health Organization, I’ll have an opportunity to explore new collaborations and new areas of research.”

The assignment is a sort of return for Farquhar, who volunteered in Ivory Coast, or C么te d’Ivoire, as a college student. Read more on the school’s .

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Political scientist Lance Bennett receives honorary doctorate from University of Bern

, professor of political science and communication, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern, as part of the celebration Dies academicus (Foundation Day) 2020, which the founding of the Swiss university in 1834.

Bennett received the award Dec. 7 at the University of Bern; he also participated in a daylong seminar on disinformation and democracy and communications among movement-based political parties on the radical right in Europe.

He is the Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication, and directs the 91探花. Read more on the .

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