MSU Faculty Member Selected as UN Fellow

Sabrina McCormick (ESPP, Sociology) has been selected as a Fellow of the United Nations Global Environmental Outlook Project (GEO). GEO is an ongoing international effort to provide a comprehensive review of the planet's state of the environment, identify major concerns, trends and emerging issues together with their causes and their social and economic impacts. As a GEO Fellow, Dr. McCormick will work on the fourth GEO report (GEO-4) due to be completed by September 2007. The GEO-4 report is being written by teams of leading experts and institutions from a range of disciplines and from many parts of the world; the GEO-4 Fellows will work and interact as members of these teams. Participants in such global assessment projects are usually senior researchers who are global leaders in their fields, so it is a special honor for a new MSU faculty member to be chosen to participate in this process.