| ELIZABETH WILSON SELECTED AS A 2008 MCKNIGHT LAND-GRANT PROFESSOR
 Assistant Professor Elizabeth Wilson has been named a 2008 recipient of the University of Minnesota’s McKnight Land-Grant Professorship. Established in 1987, this prestigious research award aims to nurture the careers of the University’s most promising junior faculty members.
Wilson is one of 13 faculty members honored this year. Their selection was based on their potential for important contributions to their field; the degree to which their achievements and ideas demonstrate originality, imagination, and innovation; the significance of their research; and the potential for attracting outstanding students. The professorship includes significant research funding, which Wilson will use to advance her research related to climate change and energy needs within a carbon managed world. Her recent work examines the regulatory and legal contexts for the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technologies.
Wilson holds a doctorate in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a master’s degree in human ecology from the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. She was a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report on carbon capture and sequestration and currently leads the World Resources Institute working group on liability for carbon capture and sequestration. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, she served for six years as an environmental scientist with the National Risk Management Research Laboratory of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She has also worked throughout Europe researching integrated waste and resource management, and in Kenya, Burundi, and Tanzania.
January 24, 2008 |
