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Yun Chung, Ph.D.

Professor of Management and Human Resources

University of Idaho

Management, Business and Economics, Diversity, Social Network, faultlines, Retirement security, Human Resource

Yun Chung is an Associate Professor at the University of Idaho College of Business and Economics. Her research focuses on workplace diversity and faultlines, social networks, strategic human resource management, and retirement security. She has published in journals such as Academy of Management JournalJournal of ManagementStrategic Management JournalSmall Group Research, and Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management among others. She has served as a member of the editorial board of Small Group Research.

Sharon Stoll, Ph.D.

Professor, Director of the Center for ETHICS, Recreation, Sport, and Tourism Management

University of Idaho

Sport Pedagogy, Character Education, Leadership, Ethics, Moral Education, Physical Education, Ethics of Sport, Philosophy of Sport

Sharon K. Stoll serves as the Director of the Center for ETHICS*. She is considered one of the leading authorities in competitive moral education intervention techniques for college-aged students in America. Also a professor of Physical Education, Stoll is a Distinguished Faculty Member and winner of a prestigious University of Idaho Outreach Award in 2000, and a University of Idaho Teaching Award in 1992. A former public school teacher, coach, and athlete, Stoll holds a Ph.D. in Sport Philosophy from Kent State University, and is the creator and director of one of the few programs in America that is directed toward moral education with competitive populations. Stoll is well known for her knowledge in teaching and methodology as applied to pedagogy in moral education and character development. Many of Stoll's students have developed measurement evaluation tools and other curriculum designs that are impacting the knowledge of moral development in sport.

Author of eight books including, "Who Says It's Cheating?" and "Sport Ethics: Applications for Fair Play,” Stoll is an active lecturer and consultant on various character issues, including moral education, moral reasoning, and moral development. She is or has been a consultant for the United States Navy, United States Air Force, the Idaho Bar Association, the American Bar Association, plus various sports organizations, including the President's Commission of the NCAA, the National Youth Sport Coaches Association, the National Federation of High School Activities Association, and many more independent and private organizations. In 1993-4, she was in residence at the United States Military Academy at West Point, as a consultant for the Higher Education Program. Stoll has been featured on such national programs as “Nightline,” "ESPN Sports Center,” "ESPN Chat Line,” Fox Sports' "Goin' Deep,” as well as numerous regional and local news shows as well as documentaries, national newspapers, and magazines. In 2005, she was featured in over 50 major newspapers in U.S. and abroad describing the Center's latest project working with the Atlanta Braves. In 2007, she was named as a member of the 100 Most Influential Sport Educators in America with such individuals as Andre Agassi, William Bowen, Bob Costas, Tiger Woods, Pat Summitt, and Mike Krzyzewski.

The mother of two girls, Amanda and Rachal, Stoll lives on the Crooked M Ranch in the Mineral Mountain Range of Idaho.

soil, water systems, ecosystem biogeochemical, Sustainability, Soil evaporation, Biogeochemistry

My projects focus on the understanding of ecosystem biogeochemical cycles within natural and managed ecosystems with an emphasis on ecosystem sustainability, resilience, diversity and adaptation.

Culture, Society, Justice, bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, osteology, isotope analysis, Genocide and Victimization, Conflict and Military Archaeology, Warfare, Disease and Heath, World War Ii, Central Europe and the Balkans

Kate Kolpan is a bioarchaeologist and forensic anthropologists whose research focuses on migration, violence, warfare and the politics related to the exhumation, identification and the commemoration of human remains in both the past and present. Her most recent work examines the possibilities of utilizing isotope analysis to help identify the origins of unknown combatants who perished while fighting for the Axis Powers in the Second World War. She has also been exploring the politics involved in identifying combatants from conflicts to assess how contemporary stakeholders utilize human remains to serve their own purposes.

Dr. Kolpan has worked with prehistoric, historic and contemporary skeletal collections and her education, research and professional development has provided her with opportunities to travel to many places such as the West Indies, Thailand, Vietnam, the Balkans, Germany, California, Florida, Iowa and Washington State. A Philadelphia native, Dr. Kolpan received her B.A. from New York University, her M.A, from Chico State and her Ph.D. from the University of Florida.

Kattlyn Wolf, Ph.D.

Interim Department Head

University of Idaho

agricultural education, Leadership, Communications, Personal Leadership, Program Planning

Kattlyn Wolf received her bachelor’s in animal science in 2000 and vocational agriculture in 2002 from the University of Wyoming. She was a member of the Collegiate Meat Judging Team, Sigma Alpha, Alpha Tau Alpha, Block and Bridle and Collegiate FFA and was one of two College of Agriculture Senators in the Associated Students of the University of Wyoming. She received her honorary state FFA degree from Wyoming in 2005.

Matthew Bernards, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium Director

University of Idaho

Chemical & Materials Engineering, Nanotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Computations

Matthew Bernards joins the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering as an assistant professor. Prior to joining the University of Idaho, Bernards served as an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Missouri, where he also held appointments in the Nuclear Engineering Program and Bioengineering Department. He graduated with his doctorate in chemical engineering and nanotechnology from the University of Washington in 2008. Bernards’ research group is focused on multiple aspects of materials science and engineering. One aspect of his research group is focused on understanding the interactions that occur between biological entities and material interfaces and using this knowledge to design biomaterials that facilitate healing at the molecular level. Another aspect of his research group is focused on developing micro- and nano-scale power generation systems based on nuclear energy.

Earth, spatial sciences, Water/Energy nexus, food systems, Remote Sensing, GIS in hydrology, Environmental Science, Soil Science, Geophysics

Dr. Humes has had the good fortune of having a diverse career both within and outside of academia. She has worked for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on space-based geodesy and spacecraft tracking, held a graduate fellowship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in remote sensing, and served as a Postdoctral Research Assistant at the USDA/Agricultural Research Service Hydrology Lab in Beltsville, MD. Her early research involved field work in remote sensing of land surface characteristics that control land/atmosphere interactions. In this work, she participated in numerous interdisciplinary field campaigns in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, France and Niger.

Kenneth E. Wallen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Human Dimensions of Fish and Wildlife

University of Idaho

Human Dimensions of Fish, Wildlife, Natural Resources and Society, conservation behavior, Behavior Change, Social Influence, Social norms, Actionable Science, Wildlife Management

Human behavior is the cause of many environmental, conservation, and societal issues but is also the means to solve them more readily. My lab focuses on human behavior, decision-making, and behavior change in the context of conservation and natural resources management. We use psychology and other social and behavioral science frameworks in combination with survey methods, experiments, and statistical modeling to understand the nature of and reasons for behavior. To inform practice and policy, we study (a) norms, values, and institutions, (b) cognitive, social, and policy processes, and (c) individual and group dynamics.

 

Damon Woods, Ph.D.

Director, Integrated Design Lab

University of Idaho

Mechanical Engineer, energy models, Weather Forecasts, radiant slab, energy management systems, Thermodynamics, energy modeling

Dr. Woods is a licensed mechanical engineer who started working at the IDL as a graduate student in 2013. His dissertation used energy models paired with weather forecasts to predict how a radiant slab should be managed to maximize occupant comfort. His current research focus is on the integration of surface temperatures into building energy management systems. Dr. Woods has taught courses in advanced thermodynamics and energy modeling. In the office, he spends his time working on energy models and estimating savings from energy upgrades; out of the office he is usually fly fishing or gardening.

 

Photosynthesis, mesophyll conductance, Plant Physiology, Plant Biology, Plant Genetics, Molecular Biology

Coralie Salesse-Smith is a postdoctoral researcher within the lab of Stephen Long at the University of Illinois. She earned her bachelor's degree in biology—specializing in molecular biology and biotechnology—from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and completed her doctorate in plant physiology at Cornell University in New York. Coralie's work has been published in Nature Plants, Plant Physiology, and the Journal of Experimental Botany, among others. She currently works on improving the mesophyll conductance of crops important to Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia as part of the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) project.

3D printers, environmentally friendly manufacturing activities, environmentally sustainable transport activities, food sustainability, Industrial Engineering, logistics and supply chain management, Production and Operations Management, Supply Chains

Professor Kannan Govindan is currently a Director of Center for Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Resilience with the University of Adelaide, Australia and Chair Professor with University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in ‘Engineering’ for five years in a row (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022) by Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate Analytics.

He has published more than 400 international journal articles (with 52400+ citations and an h-index of 122) in leading journals such as Nature, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, Decision Sciences, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, European Management Journal, International Journal of Production Economics and International Journal of Production Research.

Many of his papers were selected as the ESI top 1% highly cited papers or 0.1% hot papers and highlighted as the Key Scientific Articles contributing to the excellence in Engineering and Environmental research.

He is an executive editor of the Journal of Cleaner Production, Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Senior Editor of Industrial Management and Data Systems, Editor of Annals of Operations Research, an area Editor of INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, and was a Guest Editor in journals such as Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operations Research, Computers and OR, Annals of OR, Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Production Economics.

Professor Govindan is an Editorial Board Member of several international journals.

His research interests include digital supply chain, industry 4.0 on supply chain, sustainable development goals, reverse logistics, closed-loop supply chain, digitalized sustainable circular economy, green supply chain management, and sustainable supply chain management.

logistics and supply chain management, performance evaluation, Production and Operations Management, supply and demand, Supply Chains, sustainability indicators, transportation, logistics and supply chains

Devika Kannan is currently a Deputy Director of Centre for Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Resilience at the University of Adelaide.

She has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in ‘Engineering’ for three years (2019, 2021, and 2022) by Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate Analytics.

She has published more than 85 international journal articles (with 15500+ citations and an h-index of 50) in leading journals such as Nature, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, International Journal of Production Economics and International Journal of Production Research.

Many of her papers were selected as the ESI top 1% highly cited papers or 0.1% hot papers and highlighted as the Key Scientific Articles contributing to the excellence in Engineering and Environmental research.

She is an Editorial Board Member of several international journals.

Her research interests include supply chain management, sustainable and circular supply chain, sustainable and circular procurement, circular economy, circular entrepreneurship and procurement 4.0.

Infectious Disease, INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, infectious disease expert, infectious disease experts, Bird Flu, Avian Influenza, H5N1, Leprosy, Monkeypox, Monkeypox exposure, bird flu vaccine, Public Health, community transmission

Carl J. Abraham, Jr. grew up in the New York City area and received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Stony Brook University. He later attended Sackler School of Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel, and completed his internal medical residency and infectious diseases fellowship at Beth Israel Medical Center, one of a handful of AIDS Clinical Trial Group sites in the United States. Abraham resides in Jonesboro, Ark., where he practiced both hospital and outpatient infectious diseases. His areas of interest include hospital epidemiology, antibiotic stewardship, and care of persons with HIV infection. In addition, Abraham has two wonderful daughters and a 1982 TAMA Superstar drum kit.

Recent Projects & Research

  • Effect of a Community-Based Collaboration to Decrease Community-Onset Skin and Skin Structure Infection
  • Surveillance of an Infectious-Diseases-Fellow-Managed Antibiotic Restriction Program at a Tertiary Care Hospital
  • Alteration of DNA Transcription Factor Binding by Non-Enzymatic Glycosylation Products
  • Analysis of In Vitro Mutations in Conserved Region I of the Cloned Adenovirus DNA Polymerase Gene
  • Mutations in the Cloned Adenovirus Preterminal Protein Gene that Affect DNA Replication Activity In Vitro

Selected Publications

  • A.L. De Blas, L. Sangameswaran, S.A. Haney, D. Park, C. Abraham, and C.A. Raynor. “Monoclonal Antibodies to Benzodiazepines.” J. Neurochem. 45:6, 1985.

Honors and Awards

  • Surgical Infection Prevention Collaborative, St. Bernards Medical Center, 2003
  • Jonathan Freeman Scholarship to Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Training Course, Covington, Ky., 2000

Lieping Chen, MD, PhD

United Technologies Corporation Professor in Cancer Research and Professor of Immunobiology, of Dermatology and of Medicine (Medical Oncology)

Yale Cancer Center/Smilow Cancer Hospital

Cancer Immunology, Medical Oncology

Dr. Lieping Chen is an immunologist interested in basic T cell biology, cancer immunology, and translational research to develop new treatments for human diseases including cancer. Prior to joining Yale, he was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Mayo Clinic, and a scientist in Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute.

Dr. Chen has published over 370 peer-reviewed research articles. His work in the discovery of the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway for cancer immunotherapy was cited as the #1 breakthrough of the year by Science magazine in 2013. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research and the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer.

Kiran Turaga, MD, MPH

Professor of Surgery (Oncology); Division Chief, Surgical Oncology, Surgery; Assistant Medical Director, Clinical Trials Office

Yale Cancer Center/Smilow Cancer Hospital

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Kiran Turaga, MD, MPH, is Division Chief of Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgery and Assistant Medical Director for the Clinical Trials Office at Yale Cancer Center. Dr. Turaga joined Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital from the University of Chicago where he was Vice Chief of the Section of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Director of the Surgical Gastrointestinal Cancer Program, and Director of Regional Therapeutics.

Widely considered a thought leader in the management of oligometastatic cancer, Dr. Turaga is an expert in regional perfusion including hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), a technique that delivers high doses of heated chemotherapy directly to abdominal organs to kill cancer cells that may remain after surgical removal of visible tumors. His research focuses on development of novel diagnostics and therapeutics for oligometastatic cancer and is currently the principal investigator on several clinical trials exploring the interface of immunotherapy and liquid biopsy in the surgical management of cancer. He is also interested in studying how big data systems can be used to provide the most optimal, cost-effective patient care.

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