Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
Marianne Schmink
Professor of Latin American Studies and Anthropology and Director of the Tropical Conservation and Development Program
Center for Latin American Studies and Affiliate Faculty (voting) in the Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
1980
Degrees earned:
Ph.D., Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1979
B.A., Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1971
Professor Marianne Schmink consolidated the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) program within the Center for Latin American Studies, a unique applied, interdisciplinary research and training program on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in the neotropics. Under her leadership, the impact of the TCD program has been immense, as hundreds of students and professionals in Latin America and at UF have been involved in its research and training efforts and its university-wide interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate and Concentration. In addition, she has been incredibly successful at attracting external funding. As a co-principal investigator, she has been awarded $8.5 million in new grants (2005, 2006). During the past 20 years, she has helped to raise nearly $25 million from a broad range of funding organizations, including a $4 million endowment. Schmink merits recognition for her major external research awards, for continually receiving extramural grant funding from significant grantors, for training hundreds of graduate students, and for making a substantial contribution to UF’s stated goals of excellence in interdisciplinary research and graduate training.
