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Soren Anderson
Departments: Economics; Agriculture, Food, and Resource Economics
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Soren Anderson came to MSU as a freshly minted Ph.D., but with some high-profile experience.
The new assistant professor, jointly appointed by Economics and Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, served for a year on the President's Council of Economic Advisers...
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Kendra S. Cheruvelil
Department: Lyman Briggs School and Fisheries and Wildlife
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ESPP welcomes assistant professor Kendra S. Cheruvelil who is jointly appointed in the department of Fisheries and Wildlife and the Lyman Briggs School of Science...
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Department: Sociology
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As a doctoral student at Iowa State, Stephen Gasteyer wondered what moves communities from thinking about natural resource protection to getting things done.
He began looking at how social relationships, networks and coalitions form, and how they bring about action on environmental issues. Communication, he found, was an important piece of the puzzle.
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Carole Gibbs
Department: Criminal Justice and Fisheries and Wildlife
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Dr. Carole Gibbs is Assistant Professor, jointly appointed to the Departments of Criminal Justice and Fisheries and Wildlife. She is the first faculty member hired in MSU's effort to join the two fields to create a focus on the area of environmental crime...
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Matthew Grieshop
Department: Entomology
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Matthew Grieshop is the first to admit that many of his research projects in sustainable agriculture are nothing new.
“Many of these agricultural practices are things that our great grandparents did,” said Grieshop, an assistant professor of entomology who specializes in organic pest management.
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Jay Lennon
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Kellogg Biological Station
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ESPP welcomes new faculty member Jay Lennon, an assistant professor jointly appointed in the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department and the Kellogg Biological Station...
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Arika Ligmann-Zielinska
Department: Geography; ESPP
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Ligmann-Zielinska, originally from Poland, came to MSU in fall 2008 from sunny California, where she is a joint doctoral program student in Geography at San Diego State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara...
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Sandra Marquart-Pyatt
Department: Sociology; ESPP
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Sandy Marquart-Pyatt arrives at MSU this fall as part of a hiring cluster in Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS), the study of complex interactions within and among natural and human systems...
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Georgina Montgomery
Department: Lyman Briggs College, History
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When she was in high school, Georgina Montgomery wanted to study biology, history and geography, but a teacher told her she had to choose either science or the humanities.
“And I refused to do that,” she said. “Looking back, I think it shows from a very early age I was interested in both.”
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Nathan Moore
Department: Geography
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It made sense that Nathan Moore’s recent work in the Brazilian Amazon was funded by NASA.
Moore, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, minored in astronomy as an undergraduate, has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics and is a Star Trek fan. “I guess you could say TV got me into physics,” he said.
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Cheryl Murphy
Department: Fisheries and Wildlife
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Some researchers are well into their graduate education before they figure out just what they want to study.
Not so for Cheryl Murphy.
“I’ve always been interested in fish, since the very beginning,” said Murphy, an assistant professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and Lyman Briggs College."...
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Pouyan Nejadhashemi
Department: Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering; Crop and Soil Sciences
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Pouyan Nejadhashemi is very clear about the purpose of his work.
“The ultimate goal is pollution reduction,” he said, adding that using models of pollutants’ paths is one of the best ways to achieve that goal...
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Louie Rivers
Department: Criminal Justice and ESPP
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The assistant professor, jointly appointed by ESPP and Criminal Justice, comes to MSU from Washington, D.C., where he worked for two years in the National Science Foundation's Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program.
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Brian Roth
Department: Fisheries and Wildlife
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For a researcher with Brian Roth’s interests, the Great Lakes State is an ideal place to be.
The assistant professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife studies interactions between native and non-native species. Invasive species are an issue everywhere, but with ships constantly bringing new species to the Great Lakes, “it hits home here in Michigan a little bit harder,” he said...
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Laura Schmitt Olabisi
Department: Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies; ESPP
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She’s an Ivy League graduate and a Ph.D., but Laura Schmitt Olabisi is no elitist.
Of course we need science to work on the problems associated with global climate change, she said, “but farmers have an equally important kind of knowledge...”
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