His dedication as a teacher-scholar is evident in his service to his students and colleagues and in his participation in LMU’s Mission & Ministry Faculty & Staff Immersion Trip to El Salvador. Informed by his time as a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad de El Salvador in 2012, his project, “Jesuit Science in Latin America: Revolutionizing Academic Tourism in the Evolution of Social Justice,” will engage science, global study, social justice, and Pope Francis’ encyclical call to transformative contributions of teacher-scholarship of ecological systems and the environmental justice in human systems.