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University of Florida, Master of Sustainable Development Practice -
Graduate Assistantship Announcement
The Master of Sustainable Development Practice (MDP) Program at the University of Florida invites incoming students to apply for a Graduate Assistantship. One assistantship is available for Fall 2012/Spring 2013 with the possibility of continued support for a second year dependent on satisfactory academic progress, funding availability and work performance.
The assistantship will provide a total $14,000 stipend for the two semesters, a tuition waiver for 9 graduate course credits per semester as well as student health insurance. Students will be responsible for any additional university fees.
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MDP Practitioner Forum Seminar Series - Fall 2011
Please click here to see the schedule for our 2011 Practitioner Forum Seminar Series
Dr. Glenn Galloway, New Director of MDP Program
The Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for African Studies are pleased to welcome Dr. Glenn Galloway as Director of the Master of Sustainable Development Practice (MDP) Program. Galloway comes to UF from the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica where he was the Dean of the Graduate School and Director of the Education Division.
Galloway worked for nearly ten years in South America, first with Peace Corps (Colombia) and later as a highland forestry advisor for USAID in Peru and Ecuador. Since 1992, he has worked throughout Central America with CATIE, first as coordinator to a regional Finnish financed forestry and agro forestry research and training program and then as leader to a Swiss financed lowland tropical forest management project working with poor mestizo and indigenous communities in Honduras and Nicaragua. Galloway participates in international forestry initiatives, serving on the steering committee of the IUFRO World Forests, Society and Environment (WFSE) Special Project and contributing to international processes on forestry education. He has a PhD in Silviculture from the University of Washington and a master’s degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada.
UF MDP Newsletters
Please click here to read our Fall 2010 newsletter.
Our Fall 2011 Newsletter is forthcoming.
