Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Ph.D Student, Department of Rangeland and Forest Stewardship Research Summary: I conduct research on strategies for effectively integrating scientific information into natural resource planning and management. Specifically, I am interested in policies and administrative practices for

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition Research Summary: True food security extends beyond access to adequate food and includes supplying nutrition necessary for a healthy and active life. As such, food security is

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology Research Summary: My research focuses on using genetic data to understand evolutionary histories of organisms within a geographic context. I aim to elucidate origins and causes of biodiversity, and genetically characterize

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Atmospheric Science

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Clinical Sciences Research Summary: My research focuses on improving our understanding of antibiotic resistance in livestock production, with the ultimate goal of protecting public health.  We track antibiotic resistance throughout the food

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Research Summary: Agricultural intensification, primarily through heavy use of fertilizer and pesticides, has yielded substantial increases in food production, yet this has also come at an environmental cost,

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Research Summary: It is well known that fish need water to survive. Fish also need food, habitat, and a suitable climate. I study how these factors jointly

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology Research Summary: Climate change and human factors, such as land use and globalization, continue to facilitate the emergence of new viruses. I am interested in detecting new viruses

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Research Summary: Wildlife harvest is often thought of in terms of numbers lost, but harvest may have behavioral consequences that contribute to population status. African elephants have

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology Research Summary: Tandra Fraser was the Executive Director of Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative from 2014-2016 based at the School. She is a soil molecular biologist interested in the response of