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	Summer 2006

Alexander Baron wins $15,000 Guinn Fellowship

Alexander Baron, a graduate student at UNLV, plans to conduct a study of the soil-moisture content of the floodplain of the Virgin River in southern Nevada.

Based on Baron’s research proposal for this study of the Virgin River watershed, DRI President Dr. Stephen G. Wells awarded Baron the Governor Kenny Guinn Environmental Fellowship for 2006.

The $15,000 scholarship is underwritten by the DRI Research Foundation and was established by DRI in 2001 to acknowledge Governor Guinn’s Millennium Scholarship Program and the governor’s commitment to all levels of education in Nevada.

Baron is pursuing a master of science degree at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is interested in water issues facing Africa. He says he eventually would like to work for an international organization that addresses issues of water supply and quality in arid regions, at the watershed, regional and global level.