Rub茅n Donato听of the School of Education and Shelly L. Miller of the College of Engineering and Applied Science have been recognized with 2022-23 Distinguished Research Lectureships.
The Lectureship is among the most esteemed honors bestowed by the faculty upon a faculty member at the 麻豆免费版下载. Each year, the听听solicits nominations from faculty for the听Distinguished Research Lectureship, and a faculty review panel recommends one faculty member as a recipient. Two faculty members were selected for the 2022鈥�23 academic year.
Professor Rub茅n Donato
Rub茅n Donato is the Bob & Judy Charles Endowed Chair and a professor of Educational Foundations, Policy听and Practice in the School of Education.听
Professor Donato earned his bachelor鈥檚 degree in history from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a master鈥檚 degree in history from Stanford University and a doctorate in education (History of American Education) from Stanford University.听
Donato is an American educational historian and specializes in the history of Mexican American education in the United States.听
Professor Donato is a prolific writer of peer-reviewed articles and has published in highly respected journals in his field. He is author of The Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era (SUNY, 1997); Mexicans and Hispanos in Colorado Schools and Communities, 1920-1960 (SUNY, 2007); and (with Jarrod Hanson) The Other American Dilemma: Schools, Mexicans, and the Nature of Jim Crow, 1912-1953 (SUNY, 2021). He was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2020.听
Professor Shelly L. Miller
Shelly L. Miller is a professor of Mechanical Engineering and faculty in the Environmental Engineering Program.
Miller received her master鈥檚 degree and doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California,听Berkeley. She also holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College.听
Professor Miller investigates and teaches about urban air quality, focusing on understanding the impact of air pollution on public health and the environment. She is an expert on indoor environmental air quality, including airborne infectious disease transmission and control and air cleaning technologies.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Miller played an influential role on campus and globally through wide-ranging education and communication work to help mitigate the airborne transmission of the virus.听
Miller is a member of the Academy of Fellows of the International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) and is also an associate editor for Environmental Science and Technology. Professor Miller has published over 90 peer reviewed articles on air quality, authored a chapter on Indoor Air Quality in the Environmental Engineering Handbook, and advocates for women in the academy and engineering.
The lectures
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Rub茅n Donato (Education)
Shelly Miller (Environmental Engineering)