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Pratim Biswas
 Chariman of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering; the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor

Biswas received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology, has published extensively in his field and served on many international organizations and conferences. His research interests include aerosol science and engineering, nanoparticle technology, air quality engineering, combustion, materials ...

Expertise: aerosol science, nanoparticle technology, air quality engineering, combustion, material processing for environmental technologies, environmentally benign processing, environmental nanotechnology, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5482
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pratim.biswas@seas.wustl.edu

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Kathleen Brickey
 James Carr Professor of Criminal Jurisprudence

Kathleen Brickey, a criminal law specialist, is the author of three books and more than two dozen articles and chapters published in scholarly journals and books. Her three-volume treatise, Corporate Criminal Liability, and her casebook, Corporate and White Collar Crime, are leading works in the field. ...

Expertise: corporate crime, white collar crime, federal criminal law, criminal law, corporate fraud investigations, whistleblowers, cooperating witnesses in corporate fraud investigations, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6417
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brickey@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Jonathan Chase
 Associate Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences and director of Tyson Research Center

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Jonathan M. Chase, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and director of the university's Tyson Research Center, focuses his research on the rules (or lack thereof) underlying the diversity, distribution, and abundance of animal and plant species from the population/community/ecosystem ...

Expertise: biology, ecology, ecosystem, natural history, evolution, biodiversity, food webs, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4105
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jchase@wustl.edu

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Robert Criss
 Professor of Earth & Planetary Science

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Criss specializes in hydrogeology, the geology of water and systems of water. Much of his work has an environmental slant. He investigates the transport of aqueous fluids in environments such as rivers, cool potable groundwater systems essential to civilization, and deeper, hotter hydrothermal systems. ...

Expertise: Geology, hydrogeology, floods, river systems, dams

Direct contact: (314) 935-7441
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criss@wustl.edu

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Mike Dudukovic
 Laura and William Jens Professor of Enviromental Engineering

Mike Dudukovic, Ph.D., is the Laura & William Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering and director of the Chemical Engineering Reaction Laboratory (CREL). His primary interest is in chemical reaction engineering involving kinetic-transport interactions in multiphase systems. His research group ...

Expertise: chemical reaction engineering, kinetic transport interactions, fluid dynamic studies, transport studies, computational fluid dynamic, catalytic distillation, photochemical reactive distillation, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6021
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dudu@wustl.edu

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Ursula Goodenough
 Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences

Leading cell biologist and Washington University professor of biology Ursula Goodenough, is the author of a bestselling textbook, Genetics, and also wrote the popular discourse on religion and science The Sacred Depths of Nature, which was named Oustanding Academic Book of 1999 by Choice. She has served ...

Expertise: evolution of sex, speciation

Media assistance: (314) 935-5272 / dlutz@wustl.edu

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Rudolf Husar
 Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Husar is the director of Washington University's Center for Air Pollution Impact, Trends and Analysis (CAPITA), the world's largest private library of air pollution literature and computerized statistics. CAPITA spans more than 100 years of American pollution and energy consumption. Using CAPITA data, ...

Expertise: air pollution, clean air, aerosols, fluid mechanics, Monte Carlo Modeling, ozone

Direct contact: (314) 935-6054
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rhusar@me.wustl.edu

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Tiffany Knight
 Assistant Professor of Biology

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Knight is an ecologist who studies the population ecology of rare and invasive plant species, and addresses questions related to the causes and consequences of their abundances and distributions. Why are some species rare, while their closely related congeners are widespread? How does dispersal ability ...

Expertise: Ecology, biology, plants, ecosystems, habitat

Direct contact: (314) 935-8282
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knight@wustl.edu

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Maxine Lipeles
 Director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic and Senior Lecturer in Law

Maxine I. Lipeles has been teaching various environmental law courses to graduate and undergraduate students at Washington University for over a decade. Lipeles has over 20 years of practice experience in environmental law, both in the private sector at Husch Eppenberger in St. Louis from 1982-1999, ...

Expertise: environmental engineering policy, environmental law, lead poisoning

Direct contact: (314) 935-5837
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milipele@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Jonathan Losos
 Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences

The primary focus of the Losos Lab is on the behavioral and evolutionary ecology of lizards. Major questions concern how lizards interact with their environment and how lizard lineages have diversified evolutionarily. Addressing such questions requires integration of behavioral, ecological, functional ...

Expertise: Darwin, evolution, lizards, population biology, behavioral studies, ecological studies, functional morphological studies, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6706
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losos@biology.wustl.edu

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William Lowry
 Professor of Political Science

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William Lowry studies American politics, public policy and political institutions with a special emphasis on natural resources, public lands and related environmental policiy issues. In recent years, Congressional Quarterly has called upon Lowry to write an updated chapter for the annual CQ Press ...

Expertise: American politics, environment, environmental policy, natural resources, public policy, American rivers, environmental restoration, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5821
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lowry@artsci.wustl.edu

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Daniel Mandelker
 Howard A. Stamper Professor of Law

Dan Mandelker is one of the country's leading scholars and teachers in land use law. He is the co-author of a popular law school casebook, Planning and Control of Land Development, which is now in its fifth edition; the author of Land Use Law, a comprehensive treatise this field; and co-author of Federal ...

Expertise: environmental protection law, land use law, state government, local government, land development, housing

Direct contact: (314) 935-6441
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mandelker@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Ralph Quatrano

Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., is the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is internationally known for his plant science work on patterns of embryo formation, and how the patterns lead cells to acquire traits or ...

Expertise: Plants, plant biology, botany, moss, genome, algae, genes, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6850
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rsq@wustl.edu
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D. Tab Rasmussen
 Professor of Anthropology in Arts and Sciences

Rasmussen studies primate evolution by drawing on two major lines of evidence: the fossil record and the comparative study of living primates. One goal of this research is to trace the actual course of primate evolution. More importantly, detailed studies of primate evolution can provide insight into ...

Expertise: primate evolution, fossil record, evolutionary transitions, primate origins, anthropoid origins, prosimian primates, paleontology, …

Media assistance: (314) 935-5235 / nschoenherr@wustl.edu

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Robert Sussman
 Professor of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences

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Sussman, a specialist in the ecology and social structure of primates, does extensive fieldwork in primate behavior and ecology in Costa Rica, Guyana, Madagascar and Mauritius. His groundbreaking study of two species was the subject of Marlin Perkins' documentary "Lemurs of Madagascar" in 1981. His ...

Expertise: Costa Rica, Guyana, Madagascar, Mauritius, behavior and evolution, conservation, early models, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5264
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rwsussma@artsci.wustl.edu

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Jay Turner
 Associate Professor of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering

Jay R. Turner, associate professor in chemical engineering with a joint appointment in civil engineering, focuses his research on such topics as environmental reaction engineering and environmental chemical analysis. He is the Principal Investigator for both the Midwest Fine Particulate Matter Supersite ...

Expertise: environmental engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, environmental reaction engineering, environmental chemical analysis, air pollutant sampling and characterization, stationary source air pollution, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5480
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jrturner@seas.wustl.edu

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Michael Wysession
 Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Michael E. Wysession is an expert on the Earth's inner structure. He has mapped various sections of the Earth and is most noted for his map of the Earth's core-mantle boundary. He has a 20-minute 'movie' of the Earth's core, mantle and surface, showing what happens below us in a earthquake when one ...

Expertise: earth's core-mantle boundary, geophysics

Direct contact: (314) 935-5625
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michael@mantle.wustl.edu

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