School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan Names a New Dean

Marie Lynn Miranda, one of the nation’s leading experts on children and environmental health, was been chosen as the new dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. Her appointment is effective at the beginning of 2012. Currently, she is a professor of environmental sciences and policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. She is also the director the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative at Duke.

A native of Detroit, Professor Miranda is a graduate of Duke University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. She joined the faculty at Duke in 1990.