The incoming class of 2024 aren’t the only newbies on campus! The Department of Applied Ecology has welcomed Dr. Khara Grieger, Dr. Erin McKenney, and Dr. Skylar Hopkins to the team this year. Khara is taking the reins as Assistant Professor in Environmental Health & Risk Assessment, Skylar joins us as an Assistant Professor in Global Environmental Change & Human Wellbeing cluster hire, and Erin has come on full-time as an Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs – coordinating the Applied Ecology minor.

Our science communicator, Michelle Jewell, sat virtually with the new faculty for a Q&A: