Maple Grove resident Jack Buck, a senior at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, has been selected as a Baird Sustainability Fellow for advancing sustainability goals on or beyond the Dickinson campus through excellence in scholarship, leadership and service.
Buck is one of 14 students selected for the prestigious program. Criteria for selection include high academic achievement, attainment of advanced-level sustainability competencies and dispositions through academic work and practice and evidence of a service project of exceptional impact related to sustainability. Established in 2012, the Baird Fellowship Program is named in honor of Spencer Fullerton Baird, a Dickinson alumnus, class of 1840, who became the first curator of the Smithsonian National Museum and is regarded as one of the nation’s leading naturalists of the 19th century.
Buck is a biology major with a focus on ecology. His passion for the outdoors includes fly fishing, hiking, canoeing and writing about ecology, environmental issues and history. In 2019, he worked with the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation in Montana, restoring mountainous trails and building awareness of the value of wild places.
In 2020, he studied in Patagonia, the southernmost region in South America. His current research examines the movement patterns and ecology of female prairie rattlesnakes in Colorado.
Buck is a graduate of Maple Grove Senior High School. He is the son of Bruce and Julie Buck of Maple Grove.
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