From USC
A conservationist working in Africa and an outspoken and noteworthy scholar in North Carolina will be honored next month in Los Angeles as winners of the latest $200,000 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement administered by the university since its founding in 1973. Gold medals also will be given to the winners, Laurie Marker and Stuart Pimm, who both will lecture at Trojan functions. Marker was honored for her work over three decades studying and protecting cheetahs in Namibia, where she established an organization that recognized that it was key to address the economic and social needs of Namibians to protect the ecology and preserve the sleek, stealthy jungle cats. Pimm, a Duke professor who has won praise for his study of food webs, the life spans of plant and animal populations and who has added to knowledge about which species are most vulnerable and resilient to the threat of extinction, also was honored for his efforts to speak out and to educate the public on key environmental issues as part of public policy debates.
Tyler environmental award given for protecting cheetahs, eco-scholarship
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