Dr. Richard ("Pete") Andrews passed away unexpectedly May 5, 2024.
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- Remembering Pete Andrews
In May 2024, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill lost esteemed colleague Professor Emeritus Richard N. L. “Pete” Andrews, PhD, a faculty member since 1981. Andrews was professor emeritus in the Department of Public Policy, UNC College of Arts and Sciences; as well as in the Department of City and Regional Planning and in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, the Environment, Ecology and Energy Program, and the Carolina Institute for the Environment. From 2004 to 2009 he held the first Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professorship in Public Policy.
- Tribute by the UNC Department of Public Policy
A pillar of the university and leading scholar on environmental policy, Andrews embodied the interdisciplinarity at the root of public policy as an academic endeavor, committed to tackling public problems—especially environmental challenges—with a variety of methods over the course of a distinguished career. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Public Administration.
- Pete Andrews obituary in Legacy.com
Obituary of Richard Nigel Lyon Andrews. Pete Andrews, beloved son, brother, spouse, father, grandfather, teacher, mentor, professor, singer, and folk dancer, passed away unexpectedly on May 5, 2024 at the age of 79.
- The Richard N. L. (Pete) Andrews Environmental Policy Fund
This fund will support a competitive award to a rising senior major in public policy, environmental studies or environmental sciences engaged in research and/or service on solutions to local, state, national and/or global environmental policy challenges.