First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Boqian,Xu,Assistant Professor,"In my research, I delve into the intricate relationship between Ecological Footprint and energy. The Ecological Footprint represents the demand on the Earth's ecosystems, and a significant portion of this demand stems from energy consumption. By focusing on energy efficiency in the design and planning of 'Ecocities', I aim to reduce this demand. This involves creating urban environments that not only consume less energy but also utilize it more efficiently. My goal is to contribute to the Energy Institute's efforts in promoting sustainable energy practices that will ultimately lead to a reduction in our overall Ecological Footprint. This is the essence of my energy-related research interests and experience.",Faculty Affiliate||Assistant Professor,Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3370ba0e
Sungmin,Lee,Assistant Professor,"Sungmin Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. His primary research interests are in understanding and creating healthy and safe environments for people of all ages. The aim of this research is to explore the relationship between the built/natural environment and public health. He is particularly interested in addressing the needs of vulnerable populations, such as older adults, the benefits of green space, and the mitigation of health disparities and environmental inequalities. His experiences in researching built/natural environment-public health relationships using diverse methods such as surveys, systematic social observations, GIS analyses, and field audits. His interdisciplinary experience working with collaborators in urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, social science, and public health enables me to become a versatile researcher to understand and explore diverse perspectives toward promoting healthy and safe environments for everyone. His research has been published in the Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Health & Place, and Gerontologist. Before joining Texas A&M, he worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Connecticut.",Assistant Professor,Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n66fba9c4
Chanam,Lee,Professor,"Dr. Lee's research focuses on linking the built environment with public health outcomes. Her expertise is in 'active living research,' a transdisciplinary area of research that deals with environmental and policy approaches toward promoting physical activity.
Dr. Lee's contributions to this relatively new area of scholarship is significant in: (a) developing methodological and theoretical foundations, (b) bringing attention to high-risk populations, and (c) translating research into tools/guides to facilitate evidence-based policy/design interventions.",Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6d51b108
Bruce,Dvorak,Professor,"Bruce Dvorak, FASLA, is a Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. He conducts research and teaches sustainable site design, planning and construction. Bruce is a member of the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Research Committee and editorial member of the Journal of Living Architecture. In 2009, Professor Dvorak established the Interdisciplinary Green Roof Research Group at Texas A&M University. Professor Dvorak has published extensively on green roofs and conducts research on green roof and living wall plant viability and biodiversity.
Dvorak is editor of a new book, Ecoregional Green Roofs: Theory and Application in the Western USA and Canada. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-58395-8",Professor||Faculty Fellow,School of Architecture||Center for Health Systems and Design,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na13b189f
Galen,Newman,Professor,"Dr. Galen D. Newman is Professor and Head in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning (LAUP) at Texas A&M University as well as the Youngblood Endowed Professor of Residential Land Development. He is also PI of the TAMU Superfund Center's Community Engagement Core and Co-I for is Risk and Geospatial Sciences Core. In LAUP, he formerly served as Associate Department Head, Coordinator of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Program, Director of the Center for Housing and Urban Development, Coordinator of the Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning Program, Associate Director of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, and Community Resilience Lead for the institute for Sustainable Communities. Dr. Newman's research interests include community resilience, urban regeneration, land use science, spatial analytics, and built environment performance. His work has been published in many high quality peer-reviewed outlets (over 100 journal articles) and has been funded through numerous internal and external funding sources including the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences totaling over 60 million dollars. He has won many awards for his research including the Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and the Best Paper Award from the Journal of the American Planning Association. He has also led many efforts to provide service learning opportunities which have also won national and state awards including five American Society of Landscape Architects National Awards (ASLA), 30+ ASLA, Texas Chapter Awards, 2 American Planning Association, Texas Chapter Awards and being designated as a TAMU Service Learning Faculty Fellow, a TAMU Student Success Faculty Fellow and a TAMU Presidential Impact Fellow. Other awards include the School of Architecture's Regan Interdisciplinary Research Award, the Association of Former Student's Award in Teaching at the College Level, and being named one of Design Intelligence's Most Admired Educators.",Department Head,Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb25c87fb
Hope Hui,Rising,Assistant Professor,"Dr. Rising has expertise in Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Social Sciences, and Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning. She investigates multi-hazard community resilience as community-initiated, self-organizing interactions between humans, disasters, and the built environment to mitigate and reduce the impacts of hazards; focusing on psychophysiological and socioenvironmental factors that contribute to consensus-based and individual decision-making to make the commons more sustainable and accessible.
She has won Best Paper Awards from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and the Environmental Design Research Association, the EDRA Research Award, the Young Investigator Research Award from the Association of European Schools of Planning. Her engagement-based educational program was selected for Landscape Architecture Foundation's Educational Grant and the Alaska Airlines' Imagine Tomorrow Award.
Dr. Rising founded the Adaptive Water Urbanism Initiative, an integrated program of education, research, and outreach for adapting individuals and communities to the impacts of extreme weather and disruptive events. She co-leads the TAMU Space Governance and Habitability Research Group and the Space Habitat Challenge Innovation X Project, an applied multidisciplinary project. She was a Visiting Scholar at the U. of Venice, a Visiting Professor at Penn State, a Promising Scholar at the U. of Oregon, and a Barbour Scholar at the U. of Michigan where she conducted policy research on water security for the Urban Security Group and the Intelligent Transportation Systems for the Transportation Research Institute.
Hope previously provided studio-level design leadership for the HOK Planning Group in New York City and worked as a project manager and lead designer for EDAW's and AECOM's East Coast headquarters. She received over a dozen design awards, including three from the American Society of Landscape Architects and four from the American Institute of Architects.",Fellow||Assistant Professor,Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning||Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbd5e4e16