Dr. Nichole Hugo serves as the Graduate Coordinator of the Masters of Science in Sustainability program and began teaching at EIU in 2014. She received her PhD in Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University, where she researched international culture and economic development impacting the tourism industry. Click here to access her profile page and CV.
Dr. Hugo's teaching and research interests focus on societal challenges, economic and business structures, marketing, and behavior change. Her current research project is in collaboration with California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo to create solar cookers to be used in communities that rely on open fire cooking. The goal is to educate people within those communities on how create their own solar cookers, instead of trying manufacture and ship them across the world. Dr. Hugo focuses on the cultural differences of these communities in order to understand their concerns with adopting this technology or how modifications to the cookers could be made to better meet the needs of preparing meals which are typically made in that region.
To learn more about this research project and other initiatives taken on in this program, check out the EIU MS in Sustainability Facebook page.
For information about admission to the Masters of Science in Sustainability program, contact Dr. Hugo at nhugo@eiu.edu.
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