Tiffany Heng-Moss is the Harlan Vice Chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and vice president for agriculture and natural resources for the University of Nebraska system. A faculty member since 2001, Dr. Heng-Moss previously served as dean of the university’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. Her research focuses on developing crops with resistance to insect pests and understanding plant defense mechanisms across Nebraska’s major cropping systems.
Dr. Heng-Moss earned her bachelor’s degree in horticulture, her master’s degree in entomology, and her Ph.D. in entomology all from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
SaMin Han is the inaugural Michael L. and Mary B. Hatcher Endowed Professor in Landscape Architecture at Mississippi State University. Dr. Han, currently in her fifth year at Mississippi State, teaches undergradaute and graduate courses in grading for construction, watershed management, and proposal writing. Her work integrates ecological modeling, spatial analytics, and design-based inquiry to address the complex social and environmental challenges faced by coastal communities.
Dr. Han is a graduate of Seoul National University in South Korea, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture and regional planning. She holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture and regional planning and a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania.
Emily Bernhardt was named the Francis J. DiSalvo Director of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She will also serve as a professor in the Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment. Currently, Dr. Bernhardt is the James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. As a freshwater ecologist and biogeochemist, she studies the extent to which land use change, global change, and chemical pollution are altering the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems. She also examines the efficacy of efforts to protect and restore streams and wetlands.
Dr. Bernhardt received her bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Ph.D. in biogeochemistry from Cornell University.
Melanie Joy was appointed the inaugural David and Nancy Lamb Endowed Chair in Pharmacy Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Anschutz Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Joy has served in several leadership capacities at the pharmacy school, including director of innovation and commercialization, director of entrepreneurship education, and director of the Center for Excellence Program for Model Informed Drug Development. Her academic expertise centers on kidney disease pharmacology.
Dr. Joy holds a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Pittsburgh, a doctor of pharmacy degree from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences and molecular pharmaceuticals from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.