# Faculty Research Interests

**Source**: https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/research/faculty-interests.html
**Parent**: https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/scholarships.html

[Julia Bello-Bravo, Assistant Professor - Global engagement](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/mbellobr "Dr Julia Bello-Bravo Profile Page")  \
 Focuses on international development, system approach to informal learning, communities of practice and communication in local languages .

**[Colleen Brady, Professor - Extension Education](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/bradyc "Dr Brady Profile Page")**  \
Focuses on digitally delivered non-formal education programming in the context of equine welfare and management.

**[Neil Knobloch, Professor - Agricultural STEM Education](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/nknobloc "Dr Knobloch Profile Page")**  \
 Focuses on inclusive, learner-centered teaching to motivate and engage K-20 students through integrated STEM education and experiential learning; mentoring strategies in graduate education; food systems education and PK-12 engagement.

**[Sarah LaRose, Assistant Professor - Agricultural Education](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/slarose "Dr LaRose Profile Page")**  \
 Explores strategies that agricultural educators and universities can implement to increase outcomes of skilled agricultural workers, innovators, and agriculturally literate citizens who are capable of engaging the public in conversations about controversial issues.

**[Pamala Morris, Professor & Associate Dean/Director of the Office of Multicultural Programs](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/pmorris "Dr Morris Profile Page")**  \
 Investigates intercultural effectiveness and communication, as well as service-learning methods.

**[Casey Mull, Clinical Associate Professor - Higher Education Community Engagement](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/mullc "Dr Mull Profile Page")**  \
 Focuses on boundary spanning leadership, individuals and systems in community engagement, military youth and vulnerable populations, engaged scholarship, and program development. Prefers quantitative and survey methodologies.

**[Linda J Pfeiffer, Associate Professor - Science & Environmental Communication](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/lpfeiff "Dr Pfeiffer Profile Page")**  \
 Focuses on participatory practices in public engagement and psychologically informed message design.

[**Rama Radhakrishna, Professor & Department Head - Program Development and Evaluation and Research Methods**](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/rbradhak)  \
Focuses on evaluation and assessment of formal and non-formal programs, including program design and delivery

**[Mark Russell, Professor - Intercultural Engagement/Extension](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/mrussell "Dr Russell Profile Page")**  \
 Focuses on extension and community engagement methods and intercultural competence development.

**[B. Allen Talbert, Professor - School-Based Agricultural Education](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/btalbert "Dr Talbert Profile Page")**  \
 Focuses on under-represented populations in agriculture and agricultural education.

**[Roger Tormoehlen, Professor](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/torm "Dr Tormoehlen Profile Page")**  \
 Focuses on electronic-based learning, engineering literacy, and inquiry/challenge-based learning.

**[Mark Tucker, Professor - Agricultural Communication](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/matucker "Dr Tucker Profile Page")**  \
 Focuses on risk communication and public engagement with science and technology.

**[Hui-Hui Wang, Associate Professor - Agricultural STEM Education](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/huiwang "Dr Wang Profile Page")**  \
Focuses on the best practices of integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through agriculture, food, and natural resources (AFNR) in PK-12 and nonformal education, curriculum and instruction design, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

**[Yaguang Zhang, Clinical Assistant Professor - Digital Agriculture](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/asec/directory.html#/zhan1472#/matucker "Dr Zhang Profile Page")**  \
 Focuses on rural wireless telecommunications and digital agriculture applications in data science, as well as STEM education and mentoring for students with agricultural backgrounds, ranging from 4-H participants to undergraduates and graduates.