Education
B.S. Environmental Studies, University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2008.
Honors
Summa cum laude (4.0 cumulative GPA)
Distinction in Environmental Studies
Distinction as a University Research Scholar
Membership in Omicron Delta Epsilon, The International Economics Honor Society
Environmental Studies Scholar at UNCA (2006-2007 and 2007-2008 academic years)
Junius and Eliza Brown Scholar at Wake Forest University (2003-2004 academic year)
Undergraduate Research
Dolphins and Moral Agency: An Investigation into the Possibility of Dolphin Behavior as Ethically-motivated
(2006 – 2007)
Interdisciplinary research project synthesizing dolphin cognition and social behaviors, with an aim to shed light on the question of moral agency in dolphins
Early Hawaiian Culture and Environmental Ethics (2005 – 2006)
Interdisciplinary project in anthropology and ethics, examining early Hawaiian environmental values and cosmogonic mythology
Cetacean Stranding Database (2003 – 2005)
Experiment to rapidly create and maintain a centralized repository of marine mammal stranding events as reported in the media. Focus was on use of open-source technology for cost-effective development. Purpose, scope, and protocol designed for academic credit, 190 total entries in a searchable database online: http://www.legaard.org/strandings/
Publications
Dolphins and Moral Agency: An Investigation into the Possibility of Dolphin Behavior as Ethically-motivated
Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (May 2007)
Transcending Taboo: Early Hawaiian Environmental Ethics
Proceedings of the UNCA Humanities Conference: St. Francis and the Traditions of Spirituality (April 2006)
Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (May 2006)
Presentations
Spring Symposium on Undergraduate Research
Asheville, North Carolina, April 2008
National Endowment for the Humanities Conference
Asheville, North Carolina, October 2007
National Conference on Undergraduate Research
San Rafael, California, April 2007
Spring Symposium on Undergraduate Research
Asheville, North Carolina, March 2007
UNCA Women’s History Month Speaker Series
Asheville, North Carolina, March 2007
National Conference on Undergraduate Research
Asheville, North Carolina, April 2006
UNCA Humanities Conference: St. Francis and the Traditions of Spirituality
Asheville, North Carolina, October 2005
Contact
E-mail: roy at legaard dot org
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