“我希望密歇根州立大学是一个大量木材研究的领导者bob体育登录, education, and outreach. I've led two efforts to accomplish this. First, working with a very talented team, we supported MSU leadership with the information they needed to fairly consider mass timber as a construction option for the STEM Facility. I'm happy to report that the MSU Stem Facility is the first contemporary mass timber building in the state of Michigan, which means that it is incorporating cross laminated timber. Second, I secured funding for mass timber outreach, leveraging the fantastic STEM Facility. These two elements – the building and base funding for outreach – provided a foundation for developing MassTimber@MSU, which our amazing team is taking to new heights."

"I love to introduce students in my freshman seminar, Contemporary Issues in Forests and the Environment, to mass timber. Here’s a tangible example of how humans can interact with nature in a sustainable way. Mass timber is outside of my direct research –I focus on the factors that influence the regeneration of forests, which of course includes climate change. And forests obviously need to be regenerated to keep providing wood for mass timber construction."

"I get great satisfaction from projects that have the potential to make the world a better place. And I like to approach this by providing a few key building blocks and empowering amazing people to accomplish great things. This approach certainly applies to our MassTimber@MSU team. Similarly, I get great satisfaction when students in my courses see how forestry knowledge can be applied in so many positive ways."