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Alan Hansen

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Interim Head of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
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  • Dr. Hansen\'s research creates innovative solutions to improve the operation of off-road machine systems. He has led a U.S. team that has established innovation and field hubs in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Burkina Faso. He facilitates the development of appropriate-scale technologies to help smallholder farmers, especially women, be more productive while benefiting the local environment and economic well-being of rural communities.
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Ronaldo Maghirang

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Head of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
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John A. (Sean) Fox

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Head of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
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  • Dr. Fox uses surveys, market experiments, and retail trials to investigate how consumers value new food attributes and improvements in food safety. He studies the differences in valuation that occur between hypothetical and non-hypothetical situations, and how new information about products or technologies influences consumer valuation.
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Dan Shike

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Interim Head of Animal Sciences
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  • Dr. Shike identifies management and nutritional strategies that not only improve the reproduction and longevity of beef cows, but also optimize growth, efficiency, and carcass traits of the cow\'s offspring. Collectively this work leads to the efficient, sustainable production of an affordable, abundant food supply.
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Adam Davis

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Head of Crop Sciences
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  • Dr. Davis uses innovative modeling tools to identify and test new management strategies to make cropping systems more productive, profitable, and environmentally friendly. His research on integrated weed management provides farmers tools to reduce their reliance on herbicides. His group's data-mining and statistical analyses present new ways for farmers to improve yield resilience in a changing climate.

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Rodney Johnson

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Associate Dean of Research, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station
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  • Dr. Johnson is finding ways to promote, protect, and maintain brain health by studying communication pathways between the immune system and the brain. He investigates how infection, nutrition, and birth weight affect brain and cognitive development. He also studies how aging causes deterioration in brain health.
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Nicki Engeseth

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Head of Food Science and Human Nutrition
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  • Dr. Engeseth works to ensure optimal food quality and nutritional value of the food supply by investigating the impact of environmental growing conditions, processing, and storage on produce and oilseed quality, with emphasis on enzymatic action, lipids, and natural antioxidants.
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Ramona Oswald

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Head of Human Development and Family Studies
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  • Dr. Oswald is advancing knowledge about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families living in smaller communities. Even though many LGBT families live outside of major cities, most research ignores this fact. She looks at what support these families need, and how their residential communities can provide it in ways that fit local culture.
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Robert Schooley

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Head of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
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  • Dr. Schooley investigates how wildlife species and communities respond to human land use in a rapidly changing world. He investigates the effects of habitat fragmentation and landscape connectivity on mammals and applies insights to effective conservation. He also assesses the outcomes of large-scale restoration projects intended to benefit biodiversity.

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Germán Bollero

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ROBERT A EASTER CHAIR
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  • Dean Bollero utilizes advanced statistical methods to define, quantify, and find solutions to increase productivity and profitability of food systems while reducing undesirable impacts of agricultural practices on ecosystems. His accurate modeling and interpretation of cropping system productivity and environmental services drive future agricultural and environmental practices.
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Peter Christensen

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OFC OF RES FELLOW
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  • Dr. Christensen leads a team of economists and computer scientists who are integrating new forms of data, machine learning algorithms, and large-scale experiments into economic research in his role as a core faculty member at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He focuses on energy and environmental economics, particularly as related to public goods provision in cities around the world.
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Kaiyu Guan

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OFC OF RES FELLOW
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  • We aim to bring domain knowledge (i.e. Earth system science, hydrology, plant physiology, biogeochemistry, ecology, agricultural science), satellite data, supercomputing, and AI/ML together to revolutionize the agricultural research, such that we can observe every crop field in real-time, monitor crop growth condition, water demands, and nutrient needs, forecast crop yield, risks and environmental impacts (e.g. greenhouse gas emission, soil carbon change), and provide farmers our solutions to best manage their fields as well as policy-makers improved agricultural policy design, across the U.S. and Worldwide. We strive to achieve co-sustainability of environment quality and food security.

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Jennifer Hardesty

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  • Dr. Hardesty is advancing the understanding of intimate partner violence, separation/divorce, and parenting after separation. Through studying how different types of violence during relationships relate to different parenting experiences and health outcomes after separation, she will be able to inform prevention and intervention efforts with separating/divorcing parents.
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Sarah Low

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Head of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
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  • Dr. Low is passionate about the land-grant mission\'s research, teaching and extension pillars, and she enjoys leading and mentoring others committed to serving this mission. Her research emphasizes how to support and facilitate regional economic development. Drawing on her experience in federal government, Dr. Low prioritizes policy-relevant issues. Her research interests include business dynamics, broadband impacts, rural household well-being, value-added agriculture, and entrepreneurial ecosystem building.
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William Travis Meteer

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OFC OF RES FELLOW
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Brian G. Ogolsky

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  • Dr. Ogolsky examines how relational partners maintain healthy romantic relationships across the life course as well as the ways in which law and policy influence daily family life. His work has the potential to inform practitioners and promote policy initiatives designed to enhance family dynamics.

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M. Yanina Pepino

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OFC OF RES FELLOW
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  • Dr. Pepino advances the understanding of the effects of taste perception on ingestive behavior and nutrient metabolism. She investigates bariatric surgery-induced weight loss on taste perception, eating and drinking, and the effects of consuming nonnutritive sweeteners on taste preference and blood sugar balance.
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William Ridley

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Jason M. Ridlon

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  • Dr. Ridlon is helping find treatment strategies to improve human health and animal well-being. He studies gut microbiology, specifically the biochemistry and molecular biology of steroid and bile acid biotransformations by the gut microbiota. He is trying to understand how microbial metabolites promote gastrointestinal tract diseases such as liver and colorectal cancers, as well as essential hypertension.
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Alex Winter-Nelson

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PROF EMERITUS
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  • Dr. Winter-Nelson applies economics to better understand how we can alleviate poverty and hunger in some of the world’s most disadvantaged places. He works in Africa and Asia to examine what technologies, policies, and programs are most effective in enabling poor people in rural areas to move themselves from poverty into economic security. He examines the constraints on the adoption of new agricultural technologies by small-scale farmers whose livelihoods depend on finding sustainable ways to intensify their production.
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