The Success in Multidisciplinary Research award is given to a team of faculty members in more than one academic college who have succeeded in gaining major external resources and recognition for multidisciplinary research.
Team led by Jie (Joe) Zhuang
The research team, led by Joe Zhuang (Professor in Environmental & Soil Sciences), with members Tom Gill (Associate Professor in Agriculture & Rural Development), Frank Löffler (Professor & Goodrich Chair of Excellence in Civil Engineering) and Mingzhou Jin (Professor in Industrial & Systems Engineering), engaged many researchers to assess food-energy-water (FEW) nexus grand challenges through the lens of climate and socio-demographic changes, aiming to minimize regional and global FEW tradeoffs.
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