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Sarah Poor (She/Her)

Sarah has a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction from Texas A&M University with an emphasis in Science Education. Her work bridges scholarship in the science education and science communication fields

Karolina Wisniewska

Karry Weston (she/her)

Dr. Weston is passionate about the health of rural Americans, especially mothers and babies. Her research is particularly focused on rural childbearing women’s uptake of health promoting behaviors, such as

Qin Li, (Sher/her/hers)

Qin Li (PhD, The Ohio State University) examines both 1) the nature of (online) information landscape and 2) how both the information and social environment impact political beliefs. She frequently

Mulat Alubel Abtew

Dr. Abtew earned his PhD degree through the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Program from three institutions: Université de Lille, France (in Automation and Production), Universitatea Tehnică ‘Gheorghe Asachi’ din Iași,

Carlye Chaney (she/her)

Carlye Chaney is a biosocial anthropologist who examines the interaction between biology, ecology, and culture in relation to reproductive health and development. Her ongoing research investigates environmental exposure disparities, with

Allison M Roth

Animals do not exist in a vacuum, and social interactions can have important consequences for survival and reproduction. Using California quail and three-spined stickleback, Allison’s research integrates across multiple biological

Justin Van Goor

I am an evolutionary ecologist broadly interested in the maintenance and interactions of biological community associates, mostly using nematodes as a focal taxon. My research program seeks to utilize the

Roberto Núñez

Roberto works on mathematical modeling of thermal systems. He is especially interested in the integration of machine learning techniques and differential equations. He is currently working on the development of

Thomas Love (he/they)

Before joining the University of Missouri as a PFFIE postdoctoral fellow, Thomas Love received his PhD in Art History from Northwestern University. Love works at the intersection of contemporary art

Rowena Aba Woode (she/her/hers)

Rowena Woode is a PFFIE postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She received both her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree and her Doctor

Tanushree Sarkar (she/her)

Tanushree Sarkar received her PhD in Community Research and Action from the Department of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Dr. Sarkar studies the global spread of educational

Pallavi Raonka

I earned my Ph.D. in Sociology from Virginia Tech. My research and teaching interests revolve around the political ecology of land, forests, and animals, Adivasi studies, ethnography, gender politics, and

So Young Park (she/her)

So Young’s interdisciplinary research bridges family science and law to explore how the two disciplines, together, can increase access to justice and equality for vulnerable populations, such as survivors of

Donald Joseph (he/him)

Don Joseph received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in French and Francophone studies with concentrations in Cultural Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Dr. Joseph studies migration,

Vaidehi Dixit

Vaidehi works in the robust area of mixture models. Particularly, her dissertation aimed at exploring estimation of a mixing distribution under a general mixture model via the predictive recursion (PR)

Nargiza Buranova (she/her)

Dr. Buranova completed her Ph.D. in Special Education at the University of Missouri. She has worked on several federally funded research projects including the vSocial project that aimed to develop an

Sarah Balkissoon

“Sarah Balkissoon is a PFFIE postdoctoral fellow in the Atmospheric Sciences Program.  Her research interests include the forecasting of meteorological variables (especially for the purposes for renewable energy) using various

Erik Amezquita Morataya (He/él)

Erik was originally trained as a mathematician with some computer science sprinkled in between. His main interest is to draw tools from different math corners to describe, quantify,  and compare

Soheila (Sonia) Abachi-Hokmabadinazhad

I have always been passionate about design and development of natural products whether as preservatives, additives and or natural health products for the prevention and treatment of infections, cancer and