Rosina M. Bierbaum, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, has been appointed a Fellow at The World Bank under a new global fellowship program designed to bring expertise into the Bank's development work. Dean Bierbaum co-directed The World Bank's 2010 World Development Report, which focused on climate change. In her role as Fellow (an advisory position that is not full-time), she will remain based in Ann Arbor while working with the Bank's climate-change team to develop screening tools for lending operations in low-income countries.
Jan L. McAlpine, a leading U.S. government advisor, policy maker, negotiator and facilitator on international issues, has assumed a new role at the University of Michigan to contribute to and learn about collaborative research and education on environmental sustainability. The 17-year government-service veteran, currently on a one-year sabbatical from the U.S. Department of State, is serving as a senior research fellow with Natural Resources and Environment and the first visiting scholar at the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute.