AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

• Jenny Aker, Assoc. Professor of Development Economics, Tufts University
  • How technology is (not?) transforming rural Africa
• John P. Connors, Adj Rsch Asst Professor, Dept of Earth and Environment, Boston University
  • Diversity across scales and the sustainability of food systems
• Colette Heald, Assoc. Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT
  • Air pollution and global crop yields
• Peter Huybers, Prof. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
  • Peculiarly pleasant weather for U.S. maize: implications for crop yield trends
• Rachael Garrett, Asst. Professor, Dept of Earth and Environment, Boston University
  • Scaling up sustainable intensification in South America
• Dan McKanan, Senior Lecturer in Divinity, Harvard University
  • The spiritual roots of modern environmentalism
• Forest Reinhardt, John D. Black Prof. of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
  • Changing institutions for water management
• Ken Strzepek, Research Scientist, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
  • People, water and food in the Nile basin and the Zambezi valley              

FOOD AND HEALTH

• Sai K. Das, Asst. Professor of Nutrition, Tufts University
  • Energy metabolism, calorie restriction and health
• Deborah Frank, Prof. of Child Health and Well-Being, Boston University
  • Why a pediatrician  cares about food security
• Erin Hennessy, Rsch. Asst.Prof. of Nutrition, Tufts University
  • Digital imaging for nutritional analysis of restaurant meals
• Mahesh Karra, Asst. Professor of Global Development Policy, Boston University
  • Long-term consequences of early life nutrition
• Mark Brennan, PhD Candidate, Dept of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
  • Innovations in food aid packaging
• William A. Masters, Professor, School of Nutrition and Dept. of Economics, Tufts University
  • The weird global market for baby foods
• Y. Karen Zheng, Assoc. Professor of Operations Management, MIT
  • A data-driven approach to managing food safety in global supply chains

 BIOPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS

• Rama Bansil, Professor of Physics, Boston University
  • Physics of gels in cooking & digestion
• Missy Holbrook, Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry, Harvard University
  • Plants that use less water
    
• Karthish Manthiram, Asst. Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT
  • Using solar electricity to make nitrogen fertilizer
• Benjamin E. Wolfe, Asst. Professor of Biology, Tufts University
  • Microbial domestication in fermented food microbiomes

POSTDOCS & DOCTORAL STUDENTS

• Alison Brown, Postdoctoral Fellow, Tufts Medical Center
  • Diet and disease among U.S.-born and foreign-born non-Hispanic Blacks
• Sarah Fletcher, PhD Candidate, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT
  • Flexible water supply planning under uncertainty
• Alicia Harley, Giorgio Ruffolo Fellow and PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Innovation and access to technology for the poorest farmers
    
• Radost Stanimirova, NASA Fellow and PhD candidate in geography, Boston University
  • Modeling and monitoring global rangeland dynamics