Briggs News
Lyman Briggs College HPS professor Aaron M. McCright was recently named as a Kavli Frontiers Fellow in the National Academy of Sciences for his sociological analysis of the political dynamics of climate change in the United States. According to the U.S. Kavli Frontiers of Science website, Fellows are “some 100 of the best and brightest of young American scientists” who are “selected from a pool of young researchers (under 45) who have made significant contributions to science.” Dr. McCright began this research agenda during the spring of 1997. This spring semester, Dr. McCright served as a panel member at a “Focus the Nation” Community Forum on climate change at the end of January 2008.
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