<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/merritts-elected-to-the-national-academy-of-sciences.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>05/04/2022</pubDate><title>Leading Environmental Expert from F&amp;M Elected to National Academy of Sciences</title><description>The National Academy of Sciences recently elected Dorothy Merritts, the Harry W. and Mary B. Huffnagle Professor of Geoscience in Franklin &amp; Marshall College's Department of Earth and Environment...Franklin &amp; Marshall College offers students a hands-on education that emphasizes close relationships with faculty. Students flourish in a supportive community that treats them as an individual, and their successes continue long after F&amp;M. The College is a national leader in launching students and alumni to opportunities where they make a difference in the community and the world.</description><author>Peter Durantine</author><image><img src="/uploads/files/114533928696850884-aroundquad-merritts.0.25.800.482.full.jpg" alt="Dorothy Merritts discusses the landscape at Big Spring Run as Robert Walter 75 works in the stream."/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>Earth and Environmental Science</tag><tag>Strategic Planning</tag></tags></item>