Dr. Janice Monk, President of the Society of Women Geographers, has announced that Swetha Peteru will receive the Pruitt Fellowship ($12,000), a nationally competitive award for promising women scholars in geography.
Swetha’s dissertation examines how agroforestry practices alter biodiversity by providing a novel quasi-experimental design that links people with genetic diversity through methods in landscape genetics. Her study requires interviews, mapping as well as next generation sequencing technology of plants to analyze the relationship between agroforestry practices and biodiversity outcomes. This award supports her ongoing field work in Central Peru, where she will be headed this fall.
Congratulations Swetha!
