{"id":10956,"date":"2018-03-22T19:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T23:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/?page_id=10956"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:25:46","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/about\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/02\/PRTM_graduate_0029_kayaking-918464-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A Boat on a Kayak - Graduate Student Resources -Parks Recreation and Tourism Management NC State\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our People Are Our Greatest Asset<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our people are recognized worldwide for their&nbsp;<strong>cutting-edge research<\/strong> in outdoor recreation, sustainable tourism, parks and protected areas, environmental education and communication, sport and society, equity and environmental justice, geoanalytics, community health and well-being, and community capacity and resilience. <strong>Our research teams are cross-disciplinary<\/strong> and are often comprised of experts from a variety of fields within the department, the broader College of Natural Resources, other colleges at NC State and representatives from government agencies, the private sector, industry or other universities.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"is-text wp-block-ncst-buttons\">\n    \n<div class=\"wp-block-ncst-button\">\n      <a\n        class=\"ncst-block__button-link btn\"\n        href=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/group\/prtm\/\"\n        data-ncst-lightbox=\"false\"\n                      >\n                  <span class=\"text\">Browse Faculty and Staff <\/span><span class=\"arrow-indicator\"><svg class=\"wolficon wolficon-arrow-right-bold\" role=\"img\"  aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#wolficon-arrow-right-bold\">\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span>\n              <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our People Are Our Greatest Asset Our people are recognized worldwide for their&nbsp;cutting-edge research in outdoor recreation, sustainable tourism, parks and protected areas, environmental education and communication, sport and society,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":10954,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"pageIntro\":\"In the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, we\u00a0believe that our\u00a0single greatest resource is our people. We are very proud of the high caliber of our students, faculty and staff, and we are committed to providing them with the support they need to succeed and drive innovation in their fields.\"}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10956","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22695,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10956\/revisions\/22695"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}