Karen joined the staff of the Erb Institute in 2008. She is responsible for financial reporting and transaction reconciliation activities within the Institute.  She also provides assistance in developing and monitoring annual budgets, and creating policies and procedures to help streamline administrative processes.  Karen came to the Erb Institute from Arizona State University where she served as a Program Coordinator in Global Outreach and Extended Education.  She has more than 15 years of administrative experience and more than 12 years of management experience.  Karen earned her AA from Rio Salado College in Tempe, Arizona.  She is a native of Michigan who likes to garden, travel, and read.     

Katherine DeCelles completed her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland in Organizational Behavior at the R.H. Smith School of Business in 2007. Her research interests are in exploring the social and psychological explanations for individual and organizational ethical behavior, employee values and meaning, and organizational change. She has a coauthored paper forthcoming in the Academy of Management Review entitled “After the fall: Reintegrating the corrupt organization.” Other papers currently under review include “Change behind bars: Managing cynicism in the face of continuous organizational change” (which explores employee ethical reactions to organizational change in a state prison system), and “Cognition and affect in whistle-blowing: Understanding whistle-blowing norms and behavior” (which explores moral outrage, peer support and whistle-blowing behavior). Current projects also include evaluating how employees can sustain values towards both environmental sustainability and financial performance, as well as examining the impact of green work environments on employee and organizational outcomes.

Chunbo's research explores the relationship between economic growth, energy use and air pollution in China, and the adoption of renewable energy technologies in Chinese provinces. Each Alcoa Fellow is assigned at least two faculty mentors. Chunbo completed his PhD in Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in June 2007.  His research interests include ecological economics, decomposition analysis of the role of biomass in mitigating China’s air pollution problems, and time series analysis of the relationship between energy use and economic growth.

Judith's research explores the relationship between corporate governance and environmental strategy, mechanisms of industrial symbiosis strategy, corporate strategic responses to renewable energy policies, and innovation in energy efficient technology. Judith completed her PhD in Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in June 2007. Her research interests include corporate strategy, corporate governance, organization and management, and environmental sustainability.

Haitao Yin received his PhD degree in Applied Economics and Managerial Science from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research interests center around one question – how regulatory policies (governments), voluntary programs (non-profit or industrial organizations), markets (businesses) and social norms (the general public) can be utilized to create systems of incentives to promote harmony between nature and society. His current research projects include: the roles of governments and insurance markets in financing the cleanup of Underground Storage Tank (UST) releases, the impacts of ISO 14001 Certification on firms’ environmental management and performance, and the voluntary cleanup programs for Brownfields.