Jordan Karubian, Ph.D., received the Lynton Award for Engaged Scholarship in recognition of his “community engagement, teaching, and research focused on understanding and reversing human-caused environmental degradation and associated loss of biodiversity.” He combined work in the classroom and lab at Tulane with research and capacity building in biodiversity hotspots such as Ecuador and Papua New Guinea. His basic approach was to blend research, engaged teaching, and local community engagement to improve the quality of his research while achieving real-world conservation gains. His work was supported by the National Science Foundation, the US Fish & Wildlife Service, and others. For more information, visit karubian.tulane.edu.
Professor Karubian helped extend the geographic range of Tulane’s social innovation work and strengthened ties between the university’s scholars and students and indigenous residents of ecologically sensitive locations.
Dr. Karubian held the Kylene and Brad Beers Professorship I and the Cole Fellowship from 2013 to 2018.