Engineering in Practice

JESSE BELL

NSF GK-12 Fellow
2007-2009
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Botany and Microbiology
Advisor: Yiqi Luo, PhD

Mr. Jesse Eugene Bell received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology at Emporia State University in May 2003. While at Emporia State University he was nominated to Sigma Xi, a scientific research society, and was honored with a certificate for demonstrating outstanding academic achievement and accomplishments in research. As a graduate student at The University of Oklahoma, he was awarded the George L. and Cleo Cross Graduate Scholarship and served in the Graduate Student Senate as vice-president of the Ways and Means committee. In the summer of 2006, Mr. Bell participated in the National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes in China for U.S. Graduate Students in Science and Engineering.

Mr. Bell’s current research uses modeling and field experimentation to determine how global warming’s different climatic components will alter an ecosystem’s water cycle.