Fall 2023 Graduate Travel Award Recipients
The Global One Health Academy is pleased to announce the three recipients of the Fall 2023 Graduate Travel Awards. Each recipient is currently pursuing a PhD at NC State University and the award will go towards supporting travel that advances their global One Health-related research.
About the Award Recipients
Award support for travel to collect field data in Morogoro, Tanzania
Emily Floess is a PhD student in Civil Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and master’s degree in environmental engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In Liberia, Emily was an education Peace Corps volunteer and worked for a water treatment nonprofit. While at the University of Illinois, she measured emissions from stoves in China and brick kilns in Colombia and Nepal, and measured household energy usage in Nepal and China. Emily’s current research focuses on energy access and transitions in developing countries, energy insecurity, and the intersection of WaSH and indoor air pollution interventions.
Award support for travel to the Entomological Society of America Annual Conference in November 2023.
Elise A. Richardson is a PhD student studying entomology in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at NC State University. Her research focuses on infectious vector-borne diseases, understanding the effects that these diseases have on humans and the insect vector itself, and learning new ways to control these insects to prevent the further spread of disease. Specifically, Elise researches finding environmentally friendly ways to control tick populations to help in the fight against tick-borne diseases. Before her time at NC State, Elise completed her masters and bachelors degrees at the University of Florida where she studied ticks and mosquitoes.
Award support for travel related to Liz’s research project “BLURRED EDGES: Exploring the Indoor/Outdoor Relationship in American Office Buildings.”
Liz McCormick, AIA, LEED AP, CPHC, is a licensed architect, educator, and researcher whose work explores healthy, climatically sensitive, and contextually appropriate building design strategies that connect occupants to the outdoors while also reducing the dependence on mechanical conditioning technologies. She is currently working on her first book, InsideOUT (Routledge), which brings together a multi-disciplinary group of experts of the indoors, including scientists, anthropologists, engineers and architects, to discuss the future of human habitation with a dominant focus on human health in a post-pandemic world. Liz is also a LEED Accredited Professional and a Certified Passive House Consultant. With over 10 years of experience as a practicing architect, she has worked on a variety of project scales from single-family passive houses to LEED-certified commercial office buildings and campuses. In addition to her graduate studies at NCSU, Liz is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Building Technology at UNC Charlotte. She completed her Master of Science in Building Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as bachelors’ degrees in architecture and fine arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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