A University of Wisconsin-Superior professor has been named to the first Great Lakes Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Richard Stewart, chairman of the department of business and economics and director of the Transportation and Logistics Research Center program at UWS, was appointed to a two-year term. He is one of 18 members who will play a part in advising how the EPA spends $300 million in restoring the Great Lakes.
Stewart was a captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve and is co-director of the Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute. The Transportation and Logistics Research Center at UWS was created in 1999 under Stewart's direction.
