Since 2014, the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN) Environmental Fellowship program has supported dozens of doctoral students, assisting projects that provide environmental and societal benefits. DENIN is proud to introduce the 2025 Environmental Fellow cohort, five students whose research addresses some of our most relevant environmental challenges through the lenses of policy, science and social studies.

• Austin Morgan (microbiology) is building a biological timer that controls when modified genes are activated in genetically engineered microbes, preventing them from becoming destructive to their environment.
• Emma Korein (marine policy) is engaging with communities to learn residents’ perceptions of offshore wind, helping facilitate a just renewable energy transition.
• Idowu Kunlere (energy and environmental policy) is drafting reform suggestions for a decentralized global market that fund emission-reduction projects in developing countries.
• Nusrat Mohana (geography) is researching how environmental disruption shapes the experiences of displaced communities, informing better humanitarian interventions.
• Raghed Kurbaj (physical chemistry) is exploring the relationship between plastic size and composition and its intake into the human body through spectroscopy.

The 2025 Fellows will work with DENIN over the next year, helping lead the Institute’s events and activities. Read more about the Fellow’s initiatives on DENIN's website.