Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Physics Research Summary: I shine lasers on solar cells to learn about them. At CSU, we are working to improve a particular solar cell technology called cadmium telluride. The aforementioned laser

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemistry Research Summary: My research focuses on using molecular-level building blocks to design quantum computers. I study molecules featuring an unpaired electron, which can be used as the quantum bit (qubit).

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Student, Department of Statistics Research Summary: My research involves developing statistical methods for estimating health risks associated with exposure to mixtures of environmental pollutants. Specifically, I am working on developing a model to identify

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics Research Summary: My research uses a feminist and social justice lens to examine the politics of environmental sustainability. I take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on feminist, queer, and black geographies

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: We recognize organisms possess physical traits that help them survive. These traits, encoded by DNA, are continuously shaped by evolution to

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemistry Research Summary: I study the behavior of particulate matter, which are all the microscopic solid and liquid particles suspended in our air, in both indoor and outdoor environments. These particles

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology Research Summary: My research is concerned with how groups work to improve areas related to food and environmental justice, especially as those issues relate to talking across difference, overcoming biases,

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Student, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, and Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory Research Summary: Agriculture is both part of a problem and solution to achieving sustainable civilization; my research

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: My research is driven by one primary question: can we store more carbon than we emit? As an agroecosystem

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Research Summary: My research focuses on identifying the resistance against bacterial soft rot disease of potato. The disease have no curative measures and no resistance available in