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Graduate Students
| Name and Contact Information | Focus Area | |
|---|---|---|
| Issac Alukwe Ph.D. Student isaaca6@vt.edu | Environmental modeling with focus on water quality modeling, nonpoint sources pollution control and watershed management |
| Kristine Bronnenkant M.S. Student krisbron@vt.edu | Stormwater management; stream restoration; hydrologic modeling. |
| Felicia Chang M.S. Student | ||
| Daniel Chuquín Broad M.S. Student dchuquin@vt.edu | Hydro-ecology, geographic information systems, & ecosystem management |
| Elizabeth (Betsy) Claunch M.S. Student betsy2@vt.edu | Characterization of self-assembling peptides |
| Michelle Colandro M.S. Student colandro@vt.edu | Baculovirus-Insect Cell Protein Expression System |
| Elizabeth (Liz) Collins M.S. Student collins3@vt.edu | Resource Recovery,Utilization, and Management from Dairy Manure |
| Nicholas (Nick) Cook Ph.D. Student nickcook@vt.edu | Biological water quality impairments in central Appalachian mining watersheds |
| Dorra Djebbi M.S. Student dorravt@vt.edu | Bioprocess engineering | |
| Benjamin Freedman Ph.D. Student bfreed05@vt.edu | Development of self-selective systems for desirable phenotypes using synthetic biology |
| Janell Henry M.S. Student janellh@vt.edu | Design flow estimation for stream restoration projects in ungaged watersheds |
| Chris Hickey M.S. Student hickey@vt.edu | Hydrologic Modeling & GIS as decision making tools for improved watershed conditions |
| Stephanie Houston Davenport Leadership Scholar Ph.D. Student houstons@vt.edu | Nutrient and sediment management |
| Wei Huang Ph.D. Student cocoamb@vt.edu | Nanoparticle based cancer drug carrier and other vaccines |
| Nate Jones Ph.D. Student cnjones@vt.edu | Nutrient retention in floodplains and watershed management |
| Jae Eung Kim Ph.D. Student jaeekim@vt.edu | Revolutionary food production and biofuel using synthetic biology |
| Daniel Laird M.S. Student dlaird@vt.edu | Stream restoration and ecological engineering; sediment transport patterns within stream systems |
| Emily Lassiter M.S. Student emilyml@vt.edu | Agricultural and nonpoint soure BMPs, specifically harnessing natural biochemical processes to improve water quality |
| Hehuan Liao Ph.D. Student hehuan86@vt.edu | Water quality modeling; Public health |
| Jia (Josh) Liu Ph.D. Student liujia@vt.edu | Stormwater management, rainwater harvesting, nonpoint source pollution control, ecological engineering and modeling |
| Ambika M.V. Murthy M.S. Student ambikam7@vt.edu | Vaccine development |
| Lonesome Malambo Ph.D. Student malambo@vt.edu | Remote sensing methods for burned area mapping
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| Winfred Mbungu Ph.D. Student | Modeling impacts of land use and climate change on hydrology and water availability in selected watersheds in Tanzania | |
| Suwan Myung Ph.D. Student swmyung@vt.edu | Cell-free synthetic enzymatic pathway biotransformation for production of low-cost biofuels form carbohydrate |
| Mike Nassry Ph.D. Student nassry@vt.edu | Material fate and transport in rivers and floodplains |
| Hadi Nazem-Bokaee Ph.D. Student hnbokaee@vt.edu | Metabolic engineering, computational biology, bioinformatics |
| Eric Neuhaus M.S. Student eneuhaus@vt.edu | Hydrologic modeling in wetland mitigation |
| Stephen Nimitz M.S. Student snimitz@vt.edu | Food Engineering, Pathogen controls in food, Non-destructive testing of food and seeds |
| Kelsey Pieper Ph.D. Student kpieper@vt.edu | Drinking water contamination in rural communities |
| Lucas Pinckney M.S. Student lpinckne@vt.edu | Food engineering, sanitation, and food packaging line optimization; specializing in beverage production and liquid food products |
| Devin Ridgley Ph.D. Student ridg27@vt.edu | Self-assembly of proteins and peptides into amyloid structures |
| Caitlin Rippner M.S. Student cweigand@vt.edu | Self-assembling proteins and peptides |
| Mark Rogers Walts Scholar Ph.D. Student rmark7@vt.edu | Remediation of agricultural runoff using denitrifying bioreactors and the characterization of denitrification products using GC-MS. |
| Joe Rollin Ph.D. Student rollinja@vt.edu | Synthetic Pathway Biotransformation / Cell-free Metabolic Engineering, Biomass Pretreatment, Consolidated Bioprocessing, Entrepreneurship |
| Fatma Sahmurat Ph.D. Student sahmurat@vt.edu | Non-destructive evaluations of biological materials; physical properties of food |
| Sara Senyondo Ph.D. Student senyondo@vt.edu | Air quality and mitigation of aerial pollutants from animal feeding operations |
| Nicholas (Nick) Smith M.S. Student nwsmith@vt.edu | Combining Bio-Processing with Land & Water | |
| Tamara (Tammy) Smith M.S. Student tams44@vt.edu | Waterborne pathogens effect on human health in rural communities |
| Imen Tanniche M.S. Student imentan@vt.edu | Biofuels, biology engineering |
| Chih-Yu (Yo) Wang Ph.D. Student cywang@vt.edu | Floating treatment wetland, urban stormwater pollution control, and ecological engineering. |
| Christan (Chris) Whysong Ph.D. Student cwhysong@vt.edu | Non-destructive evaluation of biological materials and their products and improving ethics instruction in an engineering curriculum |
| Luke Wildfire M.S. Student lukew10@vt.edu | Stream solute transport |
| Emily Williams M.S. Student emilyw11@vt.edu | Nutrient concentrations in runoff from pastureland |
| Jiun (John) Yen M.S. Student qksilver@vt.edu | In silico modeling and molecular biology of Arabidopsis thaliana |
| Zhiguang (Starr) Zhu Ph.D. Student zhustar@vt.edu | Biofuels |
| Theresah Nom Korbieh Zu Ph.D. Student tnkor6ie@vt.edu | Synthetic biology and Raman spectroscopy of prokaryotes |