Dr. Joe Shaw has agreed to serve as our O’Neill Associate Dean for Research. Joe joined the O’Neill School in 2007 and has a distinguished record of scholarship and external funding. In his new role, Joe will support our culture of scholarly excellence, seek to increase our successful pursuit of external funding, strengthen our ties to internal and external constituents, and promote our research discoveries.
Since he joined Indiana University, Joe has worked to understand how organisms adapt to live in human altered environments. He has built international research teams to develop and apply novel approaches to reveal and remediate harmful pollutants. These approaches combine new high-throughput molecular techniques with evolutionary theory, statistical analysis and bioinformatics to map specific pathways by which pollution causes disease, providing unique fingerprints of polluted environments. He co-founded the Environment Care Consortium, a collaborative team of over 100 science, legal, and public health experts from 13 countries that applies its expertise to confront environmental injustice using these environmental fingerprints to defend people’s rights to a healthful environment. This group is part of the innovative Solve Pollution Network, which he also co-founded, that joins government, academic, civil society, and community organizations to significantly impact the health and well-being of people who suffer the burden of pollution.
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