Charuta Kulkarni Charuta Kulkarni, a former student of the Earth and Environmental Sciences programs of Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, received the European Union’s prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship to advance her interdisciplinary research in Europe. Teaming up with paleoecologists, ecosystem modelers, and policy experts from The Open University and University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and the National Center for Scientific Research in France, she will investigate long-term transformations of the human-dominated forested landscapes of India and will test and comment on their resilience against monsoonal variations and human impacts, especially anthropogenic fires in light of the nation’s new landscape management policy. Read the full article at the CUNY Graduate Center website.