Turning knowledge into collaborative action
To solve the world’s toughest challenges, we require its brightest minds. Rob and Melani Walton Fellows come from across the globe to collaborate with the Arizona State University community on novel research, projects and solutions that identify scalable global impacts and benefits.
Rob and Melani Walton Fellows represent the highest level of practitioners and scholars from the following sectors:
- business
- government
- non-governmental organizations
- universities
- public or nonprofit research institutions
Each fellow brings their unique expertise and perspective to sustainability to blend with ASU students, faculty, researchers and staff to explore, discuss and develop new approaches to the economic, social and environmental challenges that our planet confronts each day.
Emeritus Post-doctoral Research Fellows
- Andrew Bernier
Designer of sustainability programs and systems - Scott Cloutier
Connector of sustainability and community happiness - Jennifer Hodbod
Investigator of land use’s impact on food systems - Alex Karner
Developer of social equity through engineering - Manjana Milkoreit
Examiner of the mind and its influence in implementing climate solutions - Nuri Onat
Engineer of sustainable systems within the built environment
Emeritus Senior Fellows
- Paolo Bacigalupi
- Margaret Atwood
- Uwe Bergmann
- Wally Broecker
- Nils Ferrnad
- Carlo Jaeger
- Melissa Leach
- Alan Miller
- Michael Morvan
- Susanne Moser
- Capt. Wayne Porter, USN
- Andy Stirling
- Kevin Stolarick
Projects
The following are a sample of projects generated by Rob and Melani Walton Fellows:
- Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative
- Negotiator Briefs on Cognition and Climate Change
- Sustainability Decision Lab A graduate seminar that integrates concepts from three different fields of scholarship – sustainability, complex systems and cognition – to explore the way individuals and groups think, feel, make decisions and behave with regard to sustainability across all scales
- SoilCarbon Nation A multi-institution collaboration researching if improved livestock grazing and restoration can contribute significantly to sequestering carbon in rangeland soils
- Mayor’s Subcommittee on Vacant Lands A collaboration with Local First Arizona and the city of Phoenix to develop a strategy to make city-owned vacant land available for NGOs active in urban agriculture
- Biofuel Expansion in Ethiopia Establishment of a longitudinal dataset of impacts on food security due to the expansion of sugarcane-ethanol systems
The Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Fellowship program is supported through funding from the Rob and Melani Walton Foundation.