Please join us in congratulating Yuxi Zhao, who successfully passed her dissertation defense this morning. Her project is titled, "Entrepreneurship and commodified nature: amenity-led transitions in forested communities."
Her committee consists of Ed Malecki, Kendra McSweeney and Becky Mansfield, with me as advisor. Jennifer Evans-Cowley served as the Grad School Rep.

Well done, Yuxi!  And best wishes for your post-doctoral studies on Darla Munroe's new USDA-AFRI grant, studying trajectories of rural forested communities from 1990 to the present.