Dr. Michael Charles

Cornell Provost’s New Faculty Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  •  Research interest in bringing ecosystems into the design and decision-making of technical systems while exploring how to use academic research to impact social, political, and ethical issues
  • Other passions lie in working to increase the diversity and representation of minority groups in STEM education, along with working with gifted and talents students through their pre-college education.

 

Education

  • Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, PhD., The Ohio State University
  • Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University.

 

"Traditional science and the wisdom of tribal peoples can be complementary systems of knowledge, not competing. Scientists can learn from indigenous people who live in extreme climates to understand how they manage and provide food in typically-ignored regions like deserts or tundra without producing the emissions associated with the life cycle of industrial agriculture." 

 

Ongoing Newark Earthwork's Center's Research

 

Research

Michael Charles speaking at the UN Climate Negotiations in Bonn, Germany, 2017. Image courtesy of The Ohio State University