Nicholas School of the Environment

and Earth Sciences

Timothy Profeta

Timothy Profeta, counsel for the environment to U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, became director of the new Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. William K. Reilly, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator under 41st President George H.W. Bush and CEO of Aqua International Partners, will serve as senior adviser.

Eight U.S. environmental professionals enrolled as the first students of the school's Duke Environmental Leadership program, a master's program in environmental management via both distance and on-campus study.
The school formed a research partnership with the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center to explore links between cancer and the environment.
A series of Nicholas School environmental advertorials that ran on the New York Times op-ed pages gave the school unprecedented national exposure and helped introduce the Nicholas Institute.

James S. Clark, H.L. Blomquist Professor of Biology, elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Randall L. Kramer, professor of resource and environmental economics, 2004 University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award

William H. Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School since 2001, a second five-year term
Lori Snyder Bennear, assistant professor of environmental economics and policy

Jeffrey and Martha Gendell of Greenwich, Conn., $2.9 million (with matching funds) to support an expanded curriculum in energy studies
LaDane Williams of Shallotte, N.C., $2 million unrestricted gift (with matching funds) to name the Environmental Health wing of the Levine Science Research Center
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, $3 million to assess the global impact of fisheries bycatch on declining populations of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals