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Sustainable Solutions

March 27, 2025 | 3:00 - 5:30 PM
FSU Alumni Center (1030 W Tennessee St)

Collaborative Collision: Sustainable Solutions is for research into environmental, social, and economic sustainability to foster a resilient future for all. This will be a highly interdisciplinary event concerning science, policy, and human flourishing.

This networking event gathers researchers from across FSU working on sustainable solutions to a wide range of problems, as well as community partners interested in supporting these efforts, to build connections and launch new research teams that will make a positive impact on our community.


Collaborative Collision focuses on each potential team member's research background and interests. Faculty researchers will be asked to create a Research Profile that summarizes their expertise and specific ways they can help or be helped by a collaborator or team. 

Perhaps you are an engineer working on solar or wind power but want to understand the political and economic challenges to implementing renewable energy at a large scale. Maybe you are a materials scientist exploring alternatives to rare earth elements and wish to study the potential impact of these alternatives on labor markets and the supply chain. Or perhaps you study AI in healthcare and seek collaborators to understand how these technologies may be used to improve healthcare access for hard-to-reach populations. Maybe you are working to mitigate climate-driven health disparities – such as vulnerability to extreme heat – but need modeling expertise to identify high-risk areas and populations. Or perhaps you are interested in how youth movements can shape policymaking and are looking to develop community connections to guide your research.

This networking event is intended to bring together a variety of perspectives to address sustainability in interdisciplinary ways. We encourage anyone interested to attend!


Questions? Please reach out to Cynthia Norris (Science & Technology Specialist) or Jared Parmer (Social Sciences Specialist).


Collaborative Collision: Sustainable Solutions Participants

Yassir AbdelRazig Civil & Environmental Engineering
Petru Andrei Electrical & Computer Engineering
Alex Baldwin RIDER Center
Luis Molinuevo Balicas MagLab / Physics
Alda Balthrop-Lewis Religion
Mark Bourassa Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Josh Breithaupt Coastal & Marine Lab
Alex Cardenas Center of Economic Forecasting & Analysis
Michael Carrasco Art History
Matthew Carter Entrepreneurship
Secil Caskurlu Education Psychology & Learning Systems
Liling Chang Geography
Jeff Chanton Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Jhunu Chatterjee Civil & Environmental Engineering
Peter Cheetham Electrical & Computer Engineering
Hoyong Chung Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
Eric Coleman Political Science
Lance Cooley Mechanical Engineering / ACS
Mike Core Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center
Vanessa Dennen Educational Psychology & Learning Systems
Nick Dexter Scientific Computing
Michael Diamond Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Karina Donald Art Education
Yushun Dong Computer Science
Maxim Dulebenets Civil & Environmental Engineering / RIDER Center
Ransome Eke Family Medicine & Rural Health
Jaime Elliott Florida Center for Interactive Media
Malathy Elumalai MagLab
Simon Foo Electrical & Computer Engineering
Stewart Fotheringham Geography
Mariana Fuentes Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Xue Gao Public Administration
Arijit Ghorai Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
Vivian Guo Civil & Environmental Engineering
Daniel Hallinan Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
Daniel Ham Askew School
Songhee Han Educational Psychology & Learning Systems
Will Hanley History
Michelle Hanson  
Julie Harrington Center for Economic Forecasting & Analysis
Zhe He Information
Tisha Holmes Urban & Regional Planning
Shi-Ling Hsu Law
Justin Hultman Career Center
Lauren Irwin Harper Psychology
Renaine Julian Libraries
Katie Kehoe Art
Timothy Kellison Sport Management
Justin Kennemur Chemistry & Biochemistry
Kyoungmin Kim Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
Eundeok Kim Entrepreneurship
Carl Kitchens Economics
Kadir Kozan Educational Psychology & Learning Systems
John Kynoch MagLab
Justin Lee Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare
Sarah Lester Biological Sciences
Camille Lewis Educational Psychology & Learning Systems
Jelly Li Civil & Environmental Engineering
Richard Liang Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering / HPMI
Hugh Long Graduate Student Resource Center
Mason Mathews Geography
John Mathias Social Work
Amy McKenna MagLab
Patrick Merle Communication
Shuyuan Metcalfe Information
Meghan Mick Fine Arts / RIDER Center
Mary Allison Moody Communication Sciences & Disorders
Lyon Nam Entrepreneurship
Charles Nyce Risk Management / Insurance
Juan Ordonez Mechanical Engineering / FCAAP
Eren Ozguven Civil & Environmental Engineering / RIDER Center
Daniel Parker Mechanical Engineering
Tanya Peres Anthropology
Lara Perez-Felkner Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Anna Posbergh Sport Management
Emily Powell Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies
Shamima Prodhan Geography
Andrew Rassweiler Biological Sciences
Brandon Rowland Entrepreneurship
Subhasree Sengupta Information / LSI
Ruosi Shao Communication
Neetesh Sharma Civil & Environmental Engineering / RIDER Center
Michael Shatruk Chemistry & Biochemistry
Daniel Siegel English
Elizabeth Slate Statistics
Holly Smith Sustainable Campus / Facilities
Christopher Solis Health, Nutrition & Food Science
Lisa Spainhour Civil & Environmental Engineering / RIDER Center
Kaylee Spencer Museum of Fine Arts
Gregg Stanwood Biomedical Sciences
Elizabeth Swiman Sustainable Campus / Facilities
Tian Tang Sustainability & Governance Lab
Christopher Uejio Geography
Guang Wang Computer Science
Hui Wang Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
Chongyu Wang Real Estate
Yuxia O Ha Wang Center for Translational Behavioral Science
Chris Watkin Sustainable Campus / Facilities
Joseph Watso Health, Nutrition & Food Science
David Whalley Computer Science
Laurie Whetstone FSU Research Foundation
Perry Wisinger Business
Te-Yen Wu Computer Science
Trip Wyckoff Libraries
Jin Xie Medicine
Jiabei Xu Educational Psychology & Learning Systems
Yin Yang Communication
Qian Zhang Civil & Environmental Engineering