Directory listing text (incl.areas of expertise)
Neil Leary is director of the Center for Sustainability Education at Dickinson College. The Center works with faculty, staff, students, and administrators to infuse sustainability into Dickinson’s curriculum and connect sustainability education with co-curricular programs, campus operations, student life and community engagement. Neil is the principal investigator of a NASA funded project in which a consortium that includes Dickinson College and four community colleges is building competency and curriculum for interdisciplinary teaching about climate change. He has been a participant in the scientific assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since the 1990s and is a member of the IPCC editorial board. Neil is a Vice President of the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium and a Sustainability Education Fellow of the U.S. Partnership for Sustainability Education. Before joining Dickinson in 2008, Neil was a senior scientist at START, an international science network of developing country institutions and researchers that supports global environmental change research, assessment, fellowships and training for young scientists. Neil received a Ph.D. in natural resource economics from the University of Washington in 1988 and a B.A. from Macalester College in 1980.