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Originally from New Hampshire, Stephanie Pilkington is a civil engineer by training, receiving her Ph.D. and M.S. from Colorado State University and B.S. from Virginia Tech, and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has previously worked for the U.S. Air Force as an Environmental Restoration Program Manager (civilian). Her core research interests relate to meteorological natural hazards and how they affect communities. Her expertise is in community resilience to natural hazards and modeling hazard impact and recovery on a systems level. She has created multiple models using machine learning and artificial neural networks. Pilkington has also participated in damage surveys and is an avid storm chaser.

 
, MD, is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the  (DCAPBS) at  (CHOP). She specializes in treating children from underserved urban communities and works with the entire family or support system to improve the lives of children and adolescents.
Her extensive expertise includes pediatric mood and anxiety disorders, ethnically diverse children, health services research, psychiatric aspects of chronic medical illness, psychopharmacology, medical and psychiatric conditions, adolescent medicine, neuroimmunology and mood disorders, eating disorders, psychosomatic disorders, and suicide prevention.
Benton is dedicated to eliminating disparities among minority and underserved populations and developing leadership for a diverse child psychiatry workforce with a mission to prepare the next generation of diverse physician leaders. She also creates partnerships between communities and academic centers.
Benton is also the Site Director for CHOP’s  and the . Her research focuses primarily on pediatric mood and anxiety disorders, sickle cell disease and psychiatric conditions, HIV and psychiatric conditions, neuroimmunology and mood disorders, health services research, eating disorders, and ethnically diverse children.
She serves as President of the  (AACAP) and is a Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the .
She has received numerous honors throughout her career. Recent awards include the Humanitarian Award from the , the Shelley Leaphart-Williams Community Outreach Award from the , the McGavin Award (Agnes Purcell) for Prevention, the Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry from the , the Council on Concerns of Women Physicians (CCWP) Service Award from the  (NMA), the David M. Ellis, M.D., Lifetime Achievement Award and the Philadelphia Business Journal .

 
 

Andy Bobyarchick teaches applied geophysics at UNC Charlotte. His long-term research interests include the tectonics and regional geology of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, particularly within the eastern crystalline core of the chain.
For several years, he has taught an intense, hands-on summer institute for in-service K-12 schoolteachers. This field- and lab-based course is oriented on content and experience. He is also actively involved in developing online physical geology courses for non-science majors or teachers through UNC Charlotte and through the UNC general administration.
Bobyarchick received a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from SUNY Albany. A former research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, he is a member of the Geological Society of America, Carolina Geological Society, American Geophysical Union, Association of Environmental and Environmental Geologists and Sigma Xi.

Violeta J. Rodriguez’s research is focused on understanding the mechanisms that contribute to, maintain and/or exacerbate health disparities among minoritized youth and their families.  By focusing on both youth and their parents, she explores how the intricate association between parenting and health inequities can either mitigate or exacerbate these disparities, particularly in understudied and underserved populations (e.g., Global South countries, racially and ethnically minoritized people, immigrant families, Spanish-speaking caregivers and youth, LGBTQIA+ families, families disproportionately affected by chronic illness). 
She is committed to improving assessment methods used to evaluate health outcomes and predictors (e.g., parenting) in parents and youth, ensuring their validity across different cultural (cross-cultural and multicultural), research, and clinical contexts. Through the development of culturally sensitive and contextually appropriate assessment tools, she aims to improve the accuracy of how we assess various factors (e.g., parenting) in research and interventions. She is interested in the translation of evidence-based health promotion strategies and interventions into underserved settings to promote health equity using community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles, and informed by implementation science frameworks (e.g., MOST, CFIR).
Education
PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of Georgia
MS, Psychology, University of Georgia
MSEd, Research, Measurement and Evaluation, University of Miami
BA, Psychology, Florida International University
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As director of research strategy for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Cornelius Smith analyzes data and develops strategies to support the college’s researchers across the math and physical sciences, humanities, and social and behavioral sciences. She previously held several leadership roles in external relations, alumni engagement, and research strategy and administration with Millikin University, Marietta College, the Center for Intelligent Process Automation, and the Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust.
Her book  (University of Kansas Press, 2022) examines the motivation, messaging, and connections between military and public service for female veterans—including Elaine Luria, Chrissy Houlahan, Elissa Slotkin, Tammy Duckworth, Joni Ernst, Martha McSally, and Tulsi Gabbard. She contributes interdisciplinary research to collections examining depictions of female presidents in American popular culture, the office of the First Lady of the United States, internationalization strategies, and central and eastern European politics. 
Cornelius Smith earned her PhD in History from Purdue University, MA in political science from Eastern Illinois University, and BA in philosophy and political science from Millikin University.

Matthew Giglia, MD, is a colon and rectal surgeon at Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His expertise includes surgical management of colon and rectal cancer, robotic colon and rectal surgery, surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease, treatment of anorectal disease like fistulas, hemorrhoids and fissures, and surgical management of diverticular disease. His media interviews include tips on preventing colorectal cancer and the risk of erectile dysfunction with colorectal surgeries.

Dr. Giglia earned a medical degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans. He completed a residency in general surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. Dr. Giglia is a member of the American College of Surgeons, the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and the Louisiana State Medical Society. He is double board certified in colon and rectal surgery, as well as general surgery.
 

Simon A. Rogers is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. He uses experimental and computational tools to understand and model advanced colloidal, polymeric, and self-assembled materials. Rogers investigates the fundamental physics behind time-dependent phenomena exhibited by soft matter under deformation for biomedical, energy, and environment applications.
Education 
B.Sc. (Honors) Physics, Victoria University of Wellington
Ph.D. Physics, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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Casey Davenport, Ph.D., is an associate professor of meteorology with research expertise in severe weather, particularly focusing on thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes.
She is particularly passionate about severe weather, which motivates her primary research interest in the dynamics of severe storms. She participated in VORTEX2, a large multi-agency field project that set out to learn more about how tornadoes and tornadic thunderstorms work. The project also inspired her current research trajectory focusing on the impact of temporally- and spatially-varying environments on storm evolution. Davenport is also interested in better understanding how changes to environments influence internal processes and storm behavior, using both observations and idealized modeling. Her proximity to the Appalachian Mountains further inspires her to investigate the interaction of thunderstorms and complex terrain.

Martha Cary (Missy) Eppes, Ph.D. is a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she has worked since 2003. She holds BS and MS degrees in Geology, with theses focused on soils and geomorphology, and a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the University of New Mexico – where she researched the influence of soil development and weathering on the response of landscapes to tectonic perturbations and faulting.
Her current research interests include mechanical weathering processes, soil geomorphology and Quaternary geology of post-glacial landscapes, and soil geomorphology of the piedmont of the eastern United States. Since 2009, she has been the recipient of $1.49 million in external grants from sources including NSF and NASA; $975,339 were awarded as Lead-PI and $515,296 as Co-PI. She has served as first author of impactful articles in prestigious Nature Communications, Geology, Geophysical Research Letters, Reviews of Geophysics, and GSA Bulletin.
Her most recent body of published work has focused on mechanical weathering processes and the insight that fracture mechanics concepts can provide to the understanding of natural rock fracture. Eppes and Keanini (2017) recognized and quantified for the first time a previously unrecognized role of climate in subcritical rock fracture in the context of Earth surface processes; Eppes et al., 2020 verified that study’s theoretical models with field data. For this work, Eppes was recipient of the 2020 Geological Society of America (GSA) Kirk Bryan Award for Research Excellence – GSA’s highest honor in her discipline.  Eppes became an elected Fellow of GSA in 2018 and leader of the Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Division of GSA from 2018-2021, culminating in Division Chair. She has been research advisor to 3 PhD students, 20 MS students and ~106 undergraduate students (2004-present) – and published 16 papers with student co-authors since 2010.
In 2022, Eppes was the head co-leader of an international, interdisciplinary conference (PRF2022 Progressive Failure of Brittle Rocks) bringing together the fields of surface processes and rock mechanics.   In 2022-2023 she served in highly prestigious positions as a Fulbright Research Scholar and a University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study Fellow. For “groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research linking rock fracture mechanics and surface processes, and building new bridges between communities," Eppes was chosen to receive the 2022 AGU Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Group’s Marguerite T. Williams Award.

Sara A. Gagné is the author of Nature at Your Door: Connecting with the Wild and Green in the Urban and Suburban Landscape (Stackpole Books, 2023) and associate professor of landscape ecology and chair in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Gagné’s research, teaching, and writing are dedicated to understanding and communicating how people and nature interact in cities. She lives in Charlotte, where she helps to make urban spaces more welcoming to wildlife.

Scott Hippensteel, Ph.D. joined UNC Charlotte in 2000 after completing an MS and Ph.D. in Geology at the University of Delaware. For his first decade in North Carolina his research centered on using fossils to solve environmental problems. The published results of this research included journal articles and book chapters concerning paleotempestology (the study of ancient storms), bioturbation (the mixing of sediments by critters), military geoarchaeology (of the barrier islands surrounding Charleston, SC) and Earth Sciences pedagogy.
In 2004 he joined a research team in Charleston studying the Confederate submarine, H.L. Hunley. His research pertaining to the submarine involves using microfossils to interpret the sediment infilling history of the vessel and provide insights into the reasons for the exceptional preservation of the crew.

Mariya Munir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). She earned her undergraduate degree in Biotechnology (2008) and a master’s degree (2010) and a Ph.D. (2014) in Environmental Engineering from Michigan State University. She then joined Virginia Tech as a Postdoctoral Researcher studying the effect of humidity on influenza A virus transmissibility in the environment. After joining UNC Charlotte in 2016, she established the Environmental Microbiology lab in CEE department located at EPIC building. Her primary research interest is in detection, removal, and inactivation of emerging biological contaminants in water and wastewater systems.
Her research focuses on four main area: Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment, Sustainable water/wastewater treatment, Metagenomics and Microbial Water Quality and Public Health related issues. Her experience on application of environmental microbiology techniques in studying antibiotic resistance bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants provides a strong background for her research on COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, she is involved in tracking SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater treatment plants in Charlotte and the UNC Charlotte campus wastewater COVID-19 surveillance study.

Wenwu Tang’s primary interests are centered on computational science and geographic information science and include: spatiotemporal analysis and modeling of complex adaptive spatial systems (CASS); application of artificial intelligence and, in particular, machine learning and software agents in the study of CASS; and the use of cyberinfrastructure technology to support the resolution of computationally intensive geospatial problems. One thread of my research is focused on the modeling of adaptive spatial phenomena (e.g., movement of animals or pedestrians, land use and land cover change, and diffusion of disease and information). Another thread of my research is to investigate the utility of advanced cyberinfrastructure technology (including high-performance computing, massive data analysis and handling, and virtual organization) in the resolution of large- and multi-scale spatial problems.

Dr. Alice H. Lichtenstein is Senior Scientist and Director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Team at the HNRCA. Her research focuses on assessing the interplay between diet and cardiovascular disease risk factors. Past and current work includes addressing issues related to trans fatty acids, soy protein and isoflavones, sterol/stanol esters, novel vegetable oils differing in fatty acid profile and glycemic index, primarily in postmenopausal females and older males. Additional work is focused on population-based studies to assess the relationship between nutrient biomarkers and cardiovascular disease risk, and application of systematic review methodology to the field of nutrition. Dr. Lichtenstein is the Stanley N. Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and holds appointments as Professor in the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center, Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Professor in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. She was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the faculty of medicine at the University of Eastern Finland. Dr. Lichtenstein currently serves as Executive Editor of the Tufts Health and Nutrition Letter and Associate Editor of Journal of Lipid Research. She was given the Supelco Research Award by the American Oil Chemist Society and an Honorary Lifetime Membership Award in recognition of unusual expertise and contributions to clinical lipidology by the National Lipid Association. She is a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition and American Heart Association. Dr. Lichtenstein is a member of numerous professional affiliations, including the Food and Nutrition Board for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, and was Vice-chair of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee for the USDA and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Vice-chair of the NHLBI Adult Treatment Panel. She was awarded the Alumni Award of Merit from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2018.

William Russell, MD, specializes in radiation oncology at Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He has expertise in conformal treatment planning, prostate cancer and breast cancer
Dr. Russell earned a medical degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. He completed a residency in radiation oncology from the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, and a residency in internal medicine with the University of Mississippi. He is double-board certified in internal medicine and radiation oncology. He is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Tulane School of Medicine. He served in the United States Army and Air Force for a total of 21 years, including 12 years of active duty. 

Clayton Runfalo, MD, practices family medicine at Ochsner Health Center - Gonzales in Gonzales, Louisiana, and is the Ochsner director of community outreach and development in Ascension Parish. He is frequently interviewed on a wide range of topics, including men's health issues, rural health, vaccines, nutrition and weight loss. 
Dr. Runfalo earned a medical degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans. He completed an internship in rural family medicine with the Bogalusa Medical Center-Our Lady of the Angels Hospital in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and a residency in family medicine with Baton Rouge General Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.
 

Fall semester 2018 Professor Sonya Meyer, returned to teaching and scholarship after serving as the director of the Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences and University of Idaho Extension’s state program leader for family and consumer sciences until June 2018. Her academic career focuses on developing in students and faculty a greater global awareness and increasing socially responsible family and consumer sciences professionals.
Sonya received her undergraduate degree in home economics education from Emporia State University and both her master’s and doctorate in adult education from Kansas State University. Prior to her position at Idaho, Sonya spent over 26 years on faculty at the University of Wyoming in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences where her position allowed her leadership experiences in all areas of the land grant system. Sonya spent her first five years in a split appointment as an Extension clothing and textiles specialist and as teaching faculty in textiles and apparel.
She was selected to participate in ESCOP/ACOP Leadership Development Program (now Lead 21) Class 10, and gained valuable experience in her college’s experiment station office. Currently serves as interim chair and associate administrative advisor on W2192, Wildland Firefighters’ PPE. Her research foci includes on Wildland Firefighters PPE and the scholarship of design and scholarship of teaching. She is an active member of the International Textiles and Apparel Association, currently serving on the association council as secretary, and council of administrators for family and consumer sciences, serving as membership chair.

I am a Clinical Assistant Professor of Immunology for the Idaho WWAMI Medical Education Program affiliated with the University of Washington School of Medicine. Beyond instructing medical students in Immunology, I maintain an active research lab engaging medical and undergraduate students in clinical and translational research. My lab focuses on infant immune development and the role of the developing immune system in protection from both short and long term morbidities. I have a particular interest in the role of the developing immune system in cognitive development and the role of maternal health in these outcomes.

Leontina Hormel grew up in Ephrata, Washington. Many of Ephrata's residents are economically tied to farming and the Grand Coulee Dam. Growing up here, Hormel became keenly aware of how rural people can oftentimes feel invisible politically and how their livelihoods can be integrally tied to government development projects, like the Grand Coulee Dam. The research Hormel has pursued since becoming a sociologist has in one way or another always been influenced by her experiences growing up with folks in Ephrata.
Her research expertise includes the areas of political economy, international development, social and environmental inequalities. Being fluent in Russian language, obtained at Eastern Washington University, Hormel has studied and researched in Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Armenia and Karabagh. Her current research brings her closer home to the state of Idaho.
She has studied STEM education experiences in Idaho communities and is currently involved in two community action research projects. One project examines how Nez Perce cultural and environmental values shape community livelihoods and resilience in the Clearwater Basin. The second project seeks to understand the experiences of Syringa Trailer Park residents as they try to maintain homeownership rights in the midst water crises. Both community action projects illuminate the politics of securing community rights to healthy social and ecological systems.

Andy Kliskey is President’s Professor of Community & Landscape Resilience and the Director of the University of Idaho Center for Resilient Communities (CRC). Kliskey is also the Idaho EPSCoR Director (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research). He is a social-ecological systems scientist and behavioral geographer with training, teaching and research experience in landscape ecology, behavioral and perceptual geography, geographic information systems (GIS), planning, policy analysis, and surveying. Andy has spent the last 20 years working in Maori communities in New Zealand, rural communities in western Canada, Inupiat communities in northwestern Alaska, Denai’na communities in southcentral Alaska, and rural communities in Idaho examining community and landscape resilience. His teaching and research is interdisciplinary in nature and directed at integrated methodologies in social-ecological systems that combines stakeholder-engagement, scenario analysis, and geospatial modeling. Kliskey is project lead on two NSF Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) awards.