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Former Fellow, now a math and science teacher, grateful for DHS support

 (Dec. 12, 2006)

    Cary Girod, a 2003 DHS Fellow, has turned the support she received through DHS Student Programs into support for others.

    Following the completion of her graduate degree at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), Girod was hired to teach math and environmental science at The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

    “The DHS Fellows Program supported my graduate work at the University of New Hampshire and gave me the freedom to develop a master’s thesis on the tension between storing carbon in U.S. terrestrial ecosystems and protecting these same ecosystems against fire risk,” says Girod. Her thesis will be published in a peer-reviewed article format in 2007 in the online journal Earth Interactions.

    While at UNH, Girod assisted undergraduate and graduate education programs by developing lab materials and course curriculum.

   She hopes to integrate speakers from UNH into climate change discussion at Lawrenceville and possibly use DHS Network contacts to bring homeland security discussions into the classroom.