SHHS alum, Harvard prof, wins ‘Nobel Prize for the Environment’

Sean C. Morgan

When Dr. James J. McCarthy grew up in Sweet Home in the 1940s and 50s, he developed a love for the outdoors that propelled him to a career in ecology and environmental science.

This year, McCarthy, a 1962 Sweet Home Union High School graduate, has been named one of two recipients of the 2018 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for decades of leadership in understanding – and communicating – the impacts of…

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