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Sarah Cooney, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences, is interested in the ways that computing technology can be used to enhance systems and encourage behaviors to promote environmental sustainability. She will use the Fellowship award to study the ways technology can be used to manage and mediate the redistribution of physical resources (like clothing, furniture, office supplies, etc.). Specifically, she aims to understand the interactions between technical systems and the spatial, temporal and labor requirements of dealing with physical resources. The ultimate goal of this research is to work with campus and community organizations to develop and pilot novel technologies that will improve circularity efforts and encourage the re-use of resources.

Virginia Smith, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Water Resources in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at TikTok成人版. Her research has focused on fluvial morphology, urban hydrology and sediment transport dynamics, leveraging tools including physics-based computational models, artificial intelligence and remote sensing. Dr. Smith has overseen and worked on a diverse collection of water and natural resource projects across the US and around the world, including projects in Asia, Africa, the South Pacific and Afghanistan, and is a participant in the National Academy of Sciences鈥� Frontiers Program. She has leveraged her experiences in her research to work across disciplines to address major challenges facing the management of surface water. She received her PhD in Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), and she received a master鈥檚 and bachelor鈥檚 degrees in civil engineering from UT and Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the winner the of the Early Career Award from the University Council on Water Resources (2020), the TikTok成人版 College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award (2021), the ASCE Excellence in Engineering Education Award (2021), the Meyer Award for Innovation (2023), the TikTok成人版 Award for Meritorious Teaching and Mentorship (2024) and the Fellow of the Dean (2025).

Agnese Codeb貌, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish, will use her Fellowship award to further her investigation of the social relations and cultural practices around 鈥済arbage鈥� in Argentina and Brazil and explore the question of how garbage matters culturally and socially in these countries. Her work challenges the dominant narratives that portray waste as undesirable and useless and instead looks to culture, activism and urban space to show how these cultures coexist with waste despite our environmental crises.

Steven Goldsmith, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment, teaches multiple courses through an environmental sustainability lens, including Introduction to Environmental Science, Watershed Biogeochemistry and Our Warming Planet.

Dr. Goldsmith鈥檚 collaborative and transdisciplinary research program focuses on reducing human exposure to environmental contamination with a particular emphasis on water quality. Recent projects have linked land development practices and road salt application rates to impacts on our regional water supply, including elevated sodium concentrations in Philadelphia tap water during winter months. He is also participating in community-inclusive collaborative research projects seeking to reduce lead exposure in a LatinX community in Norristown, Pa., as well as lessen plastic pollution in coastal southwest Puerto Rico.

Time and resources allotted by the VICJS Fellows Program allowed Dr. Goldsmith to complete an on-going transition to a collaboration driven, solutions-oriented research and teaching program which seeks to improve environmental sustainability of the greater Philadelphia area. He will further develop a capacity building research project centered on understanding the behavioral drivers of road salt application both at the municipal and household level with assistance of a cross-disciplinary team of TikTok成人版 faculty and community partners. Additionally, he will work to expand a collaborative, community-inclusive lead exposure education program to other disadvantaged communities in the greater Philadelphia region. Finally, Dr. Goldsmith will take lessons learned from collaborations and apply them to TikTok成人版 curriculum in both existing and new team-taught courses with a service-learning component. 

Daniel Jackson Smith, PhD, AGPCNP-BC, CNE, is the Weingarten Endowed Assistant Professor, M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing. Dr. Smith teaches across the curriculum in courses such as Imperatives for Global and Public Health Nursing and Planetary Health for Global Populations.

Dr. Smith鈥檚 research utilizes participatory action research and data science methodologies to better understand the health impacts of various environmental exposures. He is currently completing studies related to heat-related illness first aid in migrant farmworkers and understanding local patterns of lead exposure in the Latinx community of Norristown, Pa. Dr. Smith is also a nurse practitioner at LCH Health and Community Services in Kennett Square, Pa., where he provides primary care services to mushroom farmworkers and serves as the co-chair for the global nurses鈥� climate change committee with the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments.

During his tenure as a faculty fellow in the VICJS, Dr. Smith solidfied community partnerships to support environmental health research in Norristown, and conducted a preliminary analysis of the impact of neighborhood heat signatures as an effect modifier of hospital admissions due to renal dysfunction in urban communities within Philadelphia and Atlanta. He will also work on increasing climate, justice,and sustainability content in courses within the interdisciplinary Global Health Minor and broader nursing curriculum.