Chicago Academy of Sciences' Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum offers the ideal avenue for educational outreach beyond the scientific community. Its mission is to inspire people to learn about and care for nature and the environment.     In conjunction with the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy's research on biocommodities, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum held bio-based products' demonstrations and museum 'walk throughs'. The exhibit's educational plans include the usage of corn-derived carpeting, clothing, and dining hall materials, interactive scientific testing of biocommodity durability, and displays addressing the formulation of biocommodities-sustainable agriculture, product formation, biodegradation, and sustainable consumption.	me at my Museum demonstration
Our Nature Math and Science Partnership teaches graduate-level courses to Chicago Public Elementary school teachers with the goal of increasing the knowledge and comfort level in the sciences of public school teachers in underserved Chicago areas. In accordance with the No Child Left Behind Act, this collaboration is funded by the Illinois Board of Education. I am one of two of the University of Chicago's main contacts and partners in this program.

United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, Ohio
    The US Environmental Protection Agency's Sustainable Environments Branch (SEB) aims to construct the knowledge base necessary to engineer robust environmental management schemes for environmental problems through a unique interdisciplinary research approach.
My multidisciplinary thesis research topic in biocommodity production was developed through a residency at the SEB in Cincinatti, Ohio in 2002 through a National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) grant. My collaboration with the SEB continues throughout the duration of my project.