Hixon Center Staff and Affiliates

Director of the Hixon Center

Lelia Hawkins, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Hixon Professor of Climate Studies

Sustainability Program Manager

Vacant.

Affiliated Faculty

Albert Dato, Assistant Professor of Engineering; Administrator, Rasmussen Summer Research Fund.

Albert Dato

Professor Dato joined the Hixon Center as Administrator of the Rasmussen Summer Research Fund in the fall of 2016. He is a member of the Department of Engineering and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Prof. Dato’s Energy & Nanomaterials Lab seeks to develop solutions to energy and environmental challenges through the synthesis and applications of advanced materials.

Richard Haskell, Burton G. Bettingen Professor of Physics (Emeritus), Director, Physics Clinic (Emeritus), and Director (Emeritus), Center for Environmental Studies

Richard Haskell

Professor Haskell received his PhD in nuclear physics from Johns Hopkins University in 1972, after which he devoted six years to laser light-scattering studies of skeletal muscle in the Biophysics Department at Johns Hopkins.  His current interests in biophysics focus on laser diagnostics of tissue and optical coherence microscopy in developmental biology and tissue engineering.  In particular, he is studying events in the early development of the frog, Xenopus laevis, and is contributing to the tissue-engineering of a human replacement cornea.  Recently he has also become active in environmental issues and renewable energy sources, championing waste water recycling at the Claremont Colleges and directing the Center for Environmental Studies at Harvey Mudd College until its merger with the Hixon Center for Sustainable Environmental Design.

Paul Steinberg, Professor of Political Science and Environmental Policy and  Malcolm Lewis Chair of Sustainability and Society

Paul Steinberg

Professor Steinberg is professor of political science and environmental policy. He received his PhD in political economy and policy analysis from the University of California at Santa Cruz. At Harvey Mudd College, Prof. Steinberg was a co-founder and director of the Center for Environmental Studies (now merged with the Hixon Center). He also directs The Social Rules Project and is the author of three books: Who Rules the Earth? (Oxford University Press), Comparative Environmental Politics (MIT Press) and Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries (MIT Press), which won the International Studies Association’s Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the best book in international environmental affairs. He has held several academic positions, including at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and has worked with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Conservation International, The World Bank, RARE, Pesticide Action Network, and the US Peace Corps.  He serves on the editorial board for the journal Global Environmental Politics.