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FOR RELEASE: May 7, 2009
Contact: Stanley N. Wellborn, Director of Public Affairs, 202-328-5026
WASHINGTON - Recipients of five academic fellowships and special internships have been named by Resources for the Future to conduct environmental and energy research during the coming academic year.
The awards provide stipends and program support for the recipients, who are selected through a competitive process. Each year, more than $120,000 is available for post-doctoral and other academic awards as well as graduate-level researchers, funded by special gifts to the RFF endowment.
"This year's awardees emerged out of an especially competitive selection process, and they are distinguished by both sterling academic backgrounds and diverse research interests," said Molly Macauley, senior fellow and director of academic programs. "Their work will augment and expand many of the ongoing research activities currently underway at RFF, and also explore new areas of topical interest."
Winners for the 2009-10 academic year in each award program are:
Gilbert F. White Postdoctoral Fellowship
Ali Mosleh, the Nicole J. Kim Professor and Director, Center for Risk and Reliability at the A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland will join RFF during his sabbatical for research on applications of causal models of risk to a variety of social and technical issues.
Walter O. Spofford Jr. Memorial Internship
Mr. Jess Alan Wilhelm, a Master’s degree student in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, will contribute to research on global adaptation to climate change and China during his summer with RFF.
Joseph L. Fisher Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Tyler Felgenhauer, a PhD student in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is completing his research on the simultaneous implementation of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and implications for international policy.
Chieh Ou Yang, a PhD student at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, is finishing his research on development of risk transfer instruments for managing catastrophic financial risks, including those potentially associated with natural resource, environmental, and climate-related events.
John V. Krutilla Research Award
James M. Sallee, an Assistant Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago, will use this stipend to support research on the effects of a Canadian tax and subsidy “feebate” program aimed at improving vehicle fuel economy.
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Resources for the Future, an independent and nonpartisan Washington, DC, think tank, seeks to improve environmental and natural resource policymaking worldwide through objective social science research of the highest caliber. | 
