Purdue University
vmijares@purdue.edu
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CV

Val Zayden Schull received a bachelor’s degree (2015) in biological and environmental engineering from Cornell University. They earned a master’s degree (2017) in agricultural and biological engineering (ABE) from Purdue, where they are currently a Ph.D. student specializing in environmental and natural resource engineering. Val held mentoring and teaching posts at Cornell and Purdue and has been a water resources and ecohydrological engineering graduate research assistant with ABE since 2016. Val is developing data-driven decision making for water management that integrates a Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus framework as well as futuristic climate projections through the 21^st century. Val is the diversity officer for Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG), representing the organization on the University Senate Equity and Diversity Committee. In addition, Val is an intern with the Latino Cultural Center and has served as president of the Latinx Graduate Student Organization. They won first place in the ABE GSA Symposium “What will we drink in 2169?” oral presentation session and was a member of the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program from 2018-2020. As a faculty member, their instruction will be student-centered and foster a community that is supportive and inclusive, and they plan to teach in a manner that is accessible to the widest audience possible.

Research Interests

Water management/food-energy-water nexus