Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Student, Department of Sociology and InTERFEWS Research Summary: For my Ph.D. dissertation, I am doing community-based participatory action research to explore how settler colonialism is generating water injustice and climate change adaptation struggles among the

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology Research Summary: In the forests of Mount Elgon, Uganda, the Angolan fruit bat is a critical seed-disperser. But in urban and agricultural areas, these same bats could

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Candidate, School of Education Research Summary: My research focuses on how the science of adult learning can enhance the implementation and outcomes of community- based sustainability programs, such as citizen science, in ways that support

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Student, Department of Animal Sciences and CSU AgNext Research Summary: My research quantifies the climate impact of beef finishing systems and how a changing climate poses a risk to beef production by assessing economic, social,

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Student, Department of Geosciences Research Summary: I am interested in understanding why landscapes have the shapes they have, what we can infer from them, and how they evolve over time, on scales ranging from a

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Student, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: In the Andean agroecosystems, the intensification of crop systems is resulting in the shortening of fallow periods, thus affecting soil

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemistry Research Summary: Exposure to particulate matter (PM) is harmful to human health. One source of PM is the reaction of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to produce low volatility products that condense

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition Research Summary: My research explores the intersection of agriculture and human health, specifically, the use of controlled environment agriculture, colloquially known as indoor farming, to biofortify red

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Fish, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: My research explores how we can build better cities. As an ecologist who grew up in a city, I