Alumni News
Lovich Receives Fulbright Senior Specialists Award
Dr. Jeff Lovich (Ph.D. '90), Deputy Director at the Southwest Biological Science Center of USGS, has been selected for a Fulbright Senior Specialists project in Marrakech, Morocco at Cadi Ayyad University during May 2008, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Lovich will present a series of lectures on ecological research techniques to graduate and undergraduate students at the University, will assist in the development of a new graduate program, and will deliver the keynote address at the First Annual Meeting of the Moroccan Society of Herpetology.
Balch & Bingham’s Scott Hitch Earns LEED Accredited Professional Designation from U.S
In May 2008, Balch & Bingham LLP today announced that Scott E. Hitch (B.S.'96), a partner in the firm’s environmental and natural resources group, had been designated as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP) by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI). According to the GBCI’s online directory, Hitch is one of three Georgia lawyers with this accreditation, and only 55 nationwide.
Hitch joins a select group of attorneys who can ably navigate through a host of green building trends, as well as understand emerging state, federal and international climate change and carbon regulatory programs.
Shapiro Named One of America's Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences
Beth Shapiro (B.S. ’99) was profiled in Smithsonian magazine for being one of America’s Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences. Shapiro has determined a method to isolate dodo DNA.
Crossing boundaries is a favorite mode. While still in high school, Shapiro worked as an aspiring broadcast journalist for a TV station in Rome, Georgia. In college, she got sidetracked by Mandarin Chinese, geology, Spanish and English literature, then settled on an ecology major. She received her doctorate in evolutionary biology from Oxford in just three years—and still found time to head the university's wine club and host a local radio call-in science show. Shapiro now serves on the faculty at Penn State.
Lakly Appointed State Director of GA Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy in Georgia announced the appointment of Michelle (Shelly) Lakly, Ph.D. ('99), to the position of state director for the Georgia program.
A native Georgian, Lakly comes to The Nature Conservancy from Zoo Atlanta where she was the vice president of education and conservation programs. Prior to her position at Zoo Atlanta, Lakly was a research scientist at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory where she specialized in stream restoration and recovery. A three-time graduate of the University of Georgia, Lakly earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and master’s and doctoral degrees in ecology.
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