Sustainability Research Directory

William P. (Bill) Ball, PhD, has research interests in environmental engineering, physical and chemical processes, and water quality.

Daniel Barnett, MD, MPH '01, studies emergency preparedness, response, and recovery to identify approaches for optimizing population health in emergencies and disasters.

Karen Bassarab manages research and practice focused on community-drive food systems policy, which includes the Food Policy Network project, a national network of local and regional food policy councils across the United States.

Marina Bedran, PhD, is working on a book project exploring questions of political ecology, indigeneity, and temporality in experimental media-based art and writing, demonstrating how Brazilian artists, writers, and filmmakers since the postwar staked out a critique of state-led modernization projects and developmentalism by turning to Amazonia.

Jane Bennett specializes in the environmental humanities, political philosophy, nature-writing, American romanticism, political rhetoric and persuasion, and contemporary social thought. She is the author of The Enchantment of Modern Life (2001); Vibrant Matter (2010); Influx & Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman (2020).

Michael Betenbaugh, PhD, is known for integrating systems biology with cellular, metabolic, and biochemical engineering for eukaryotic biotechnology applications.