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It comes from a Policy Center Director who works to help Delawareans by providing fact-based analysis in four key areas:

education, energy and environmental policy, the economy and government spending, and health policy.

Student Research Spotlight: Encouraging Delaware’s Next Generation of Thinkers

Updated: 3 days ago

The Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) is proud to launch a new feature highlighting research and analysis from Delaware students who are exploring real-world issues that affect our communities. Through this initiative, CRI aims to inspire the next generation of independent thinkers to approach public policy, science and civic life with curiosity, integrity and data-driven reasoning.

 

Our first Student Research Spotlight features the work of Benjamin Parsons, a Delaware high school senior. His research, titled “An Ecological Field Study Comparing Cleared vs. Control Trails and Developing Best-Practice Guidelines to Protect Delmarva Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger cinereus) Habitat,” examines how trail maintenance practices may affect wildlife habitat on the Delmarva Peninsula.


Delmarva Fox Squirrel

Using the gray squirrel as a stand-in for the Delmarva fox squirrel—a species once federally listed as endangered—Benjamin’s findings offer practical, evidence-based recommendations for balancing recreation with habitat protection.


CRI welcomes opportunities to highlight other Delaware students who are using research and analysis to understand and improve the world around them.



 
 
 

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About the Caesar Rodney Institute
The Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) is a Delaware-based, nonprofit 501(c)(3) research organization. As a nonpartisan public policy think tank, CRI provides fact-based analysis in four key areas: education, energy and environmental policy, the economy and government spending, and health policy.

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Our mission is to educate and inform Delawareans-including citizens, legislators, and community leaders-on issues that affect quality of life and opportunity.

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