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Four new master’s students, representative of a great and diverse pool of incoming talent, talk about their fields of study and making an impact after graduation – and offering advice to President-elect Barack Obama.
The School of Natural Resources and Environment welcomed its largest-ever incoming class in September. More than 147 new master’s and doctoral students chose to pursue their academic goals by studying in Ann Arbor. Interest in an education at SNRE is at an all-time high. The school received more than 500 applications this fall. Nearly a third of incoming SNRE students are pursuing two degrees through innovative and highly touted dual-degree programs with sister schools and colleges across campus. The new students increase to nearly 400 the number of graduate students enrolled at SNRE: 282 at the master’s of science level, 36 at the master’s of landscape architecture level; and 79 at the doctoral level.
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: ABOVE, From left, new students Meghan Hutchins, Andrew MacDonald, Sarah Shapiro and Nathan Springer.
The school’s incoming class is as distinguished as ever, representing 28 states and nine countries. To give you a flavor for who they are and what is on their minds, Stewards selected four and asked them to introduce themselves.
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