Longenecker’s extensive experience as both clinician and educator have given him a strong understanding of the challenges facing physicians who choose to practice in medically underserved rural or urban areas – as well as the best ways to encourage and prepare more physicians-in-training to make this choice.

Scanlan is a professor of Sociology at Ohio University. His research interests include development and comparative social change, environmental sociology, social stratification and social movements.  More specifically his published research has examined environmental justice and poverty in Appalachia; food deserts; food insecurity and the environment; gender and development; global hunger; and greenwashing and corporate environmental communication.

Dr. Kremer’s passions and focus of his work are in human development and care for creation.  He teaches an award-winning  capstone design course, “Designing to Make a Difference,” which engages engineering students in designing one-of-a-kind prototype solutions for small-scale farmers, individuals with disabilities, local entrepreneurs and businesses, and small communities in the Appalachian region and developing countries. For example, Kremer and his students have made four trips to the central plateau of Haiti to support the local infrastructure and job development.

Kruse Daniels has worked passionately on stream reclamation since the tender age of 10. She started attending University classes at age 11 and earned a civil engineering degree by her late teens. After obtaining a doctorate in hydrogeochemical engineering in England, Kruse Daniels returned to her alma mater, stepping into the role of her former mentor with the Environmental Studies program at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service. 

Dr. Morgan Vis is an expert on the biogeography, systematics, and evolutionary relationships of freshwater red algae and the effects of pollution on freshwater algae. The inspiration to study this field of work came at a young age.

“I’m originally from Michigan and I grew up around the Great Lakes, so I was always interested in fresh water,” she says.