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Research

At CES, we encourage faculty and students participate in hands-on research, learning new skills, impacting real-world problems, and making connections with other researchers in the field.

Publications and News 

Valerie Imbruce and Stella Yi. (2025). Food Justice & Urban Change in a Historic Chinese Neighborhood. In Ku et al (eds). Eating More Asian America: A food studies reader. NYU Press. 

B. Choate, L. Chamberlin, V. Imbruce submitted a draft of a chapter for a faculty-edited book, Information Literacy for Civic Engagement: Lessons from the 21st Century Liberal Arts. The chapter is “Role of Information Literacy in Community-based Environmental Internships.”  

Rashed, A.; Rashed T.; El-Belqassy, M. and Rashed, H.  Civilization resilience: A new perspective for addressing climate change and health threats (Chapter 14). In Saroj Pachauri, Ash Pachauri, M.P. Jonathan (editors): Health and Climate Change, 2025: Paper ISBN: 9780443292408; eBook ISBN 9780443292415. 

Tarek Rashed (2025). Technology's potential to solve environmental and social crises (Ch 48), Published Interview in How to Inspire Action and Lead with Impact: Voices of 50 Highly Effective Global Climate Leaders. POP Academy. 

Baker, M., Raimund, B., Lukambagire, I., Etta, L.A., Alkoyak-Yildiz, M., Rashed, T., Lee, M., Mubarak, M., Anusree, S., Suresh, A.S. 2025. Linking the blue economy to Women’s empowerment to create avenues for the realization of ocean sustainability targets in the global south. Ocean & Coastal Management, Vol 262. Doi: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2025.107582. 

Michael O’Rourke, Shannon Donovan, Jesse Engebretson, Chad Gonnerman, Lissy Goralnik, Valerie Imbruce, Paul Kjellberg, Marisa A. Rinkus and Brian Robinson (2024). Addressing perspectives with the toolbox dialogue method in (ed. Rick Szostak) Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration. Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Gajewski, A., Imbruce, V.,  Brenton, B. & Adams, M.,  (2025). The vital role of university-community organization partnerships to address food security. Practicing Anthropology

Aswathi Padmalochana, Mary Mona Mathew, Tarek Rashed, Veena G, Bhavani Rao R (2025). A Computational Data Framework for Health Prediction Using Artificial Intelligence and Vedic Principles, Published in proceedings of International Conference on Sustainable & Resilient Futures: Bridging Science, Policy, & Practice (ICSRF 2025).  

Balu M Menon, Tarek Rashed, Lekshmi Venkitesh, Amritha Natarajan, Vasundharan Nidhi, Bhavani Rao (2025). Participatory Co-Design for Human–Elephant Coexistence: Integrating Local Knowledge into Early Warning System Planning in Odisha. Environmental Management (accepted, in press).  

Baker, E. E., D. Kramar, and D. M. Small. 2025. Landscape Changes Over Time May Influence Colinus virginianus (Northern Bobwhite) on the Upper Eastern Shore of Maryland. Northeastern Naturalist 32: 1-20. 

Matovu, B., Bleischwitz, R., Lukambagire, I., Alkoyak-Yildiz, M., Rashed, T., Etta, L., ... & Hsieh, Y. L. (2025). Examining the perceptions and attitudes toward Women's employment and leadership in the blue economy: A case study of India. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 11, 101537. . 

MV Mukil, S Anandhu, Nansi Raju, Bhavani Rao R & Tarek Rashed (2025). A Deity-Centric Framework for Human–Nature Connectedness: Insights from Serpent King (Nāgarāja) Temple in Kerala. Human Ecology DOI:10.1007/s10745-025-00634-5. 

Aswathi Padmavilochanan, Veena G., Tarek Rashed and Amritha Natarajan. Analyzing Vulnerability Through Narratives: A Prompt-Based NLP Framework for Information Extraction and Insight Generation (2025). Big Data Cogn. Comput. 2025, 9, 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc3900525.  

Mukil M V, , Tarek Rashed and Rao R Bhavani. Exploring the Impact of Sacred Spaces on Nature Connectedness: A Study of Śrī Dharma Śāstā Temple in India and Its Influence. Sustainable Futures , Volume 10, December 2025, 101380. 

Imbruce, V., Vanessa Jaeger, Marisa A. Rinkus, Jessica Hua, and Michael O’Rourke (2024). Raising undergraduate researchers’ interdisciplinary consciousness through dialogue. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. .

Cartafalsa, T. M., Peters, C. N., Collins, R. J., Hartman, L. M., Steinweg, M (2024), An on‑campus, collaborative restoration of landfills and degraded suburban ecosystems, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. doi: 10.1007/s13412-024-00989-z.  

Macpherson, E., Cuppari, R. I., Kagawa-Viviani, A., Brause, H., Brewer, W. A., Grant, W. E., Herman-Mercer, N., Livneh, B., Neupane, K. R., Petach, T., Peters, C. N., Wang, H. H., Pahl-Wostl, C., Wheater, H. (2024), Setting a Pluralist Agenda for Water Governance: Why Power and Scale Matter, WIRES Water, doi: 10.1002/wat2.1734. 

Imbruce, V. (2025). Washington Insider, Ҵý Magazine.

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Homes and Gardens. January 2025.  M. Gimpel quoted.

Real Simple. February 2025. M. Gimpel quoted. 

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Home and Gardens. February 17, 2025. M. Gimpel quoted.

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Home & Gardens. April 19, 2025. K. Thornton quoted.

Kaytee. May 2025. M. Gimpel quoted. 

Real Simple. May 18, 2025. M. Gimpel quoted.

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Homes & Gardens. June 1, 2025. M. Gimpel quoted. 

Real Simple. June 16, 2025. M. Gimpel quoted.

Cornelius, S., Peters, C. , Haven Harbour Marina Resorts, November 7, 2025

J. Markin (2025). In Clay, Temper, Fire: Exploring Maryland’s Indigenous Ceramics, Maryland Historical Trust, Archaeology Month Booklet. 

Gimpel, Maren E., McHenry, Meghan E., Gruber, James G. Gruber. 2024. North American Bird Bander. 53-54. 

Vivian Zhong and Valerie Imbruce, published by Send Chinatown Love.