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The Park Institute of America has named Nicholas School of the Environment alumnus Tyler Sammis, DEL-MEM ’20, as its first executive director.

Miles Hatfield was walking into his dining room when he felt the wooden floor give way. His legs dropped hip-deep into water that had pooled under the brick house in the green hills of eastern Kentucky where he had lived for the past 40 years, trapping him in his own floor.

A UC Davis professor runs an academic center that was conceived by a trade group, according to records, and gets most of its funding from farming interests.