Focus

  • Geography, Earth, United States, California, the San Joaquin Valley; currently interested in hydrological systems
  • Urban planning, City of Merced and UC Merced
  • Students, empowerment and involvement in the policy/decision-making processes at the campus, city, county, state and national level
  • Public education system, focused on California’s public higher education system and the California Community Colleges, California State University and University of California segments; interested in K-12 system
  • Grassroots movements, organizing, mobilizing; the emergence, cultivation and ascendancy of the grassroots leaders
  • Transportation, transportation systems (inspired by the computer game Transport Tycoon Deluxe)
  • Railroads, history and law in United States
  • High speed rail, history and law in California, the United States
  • Regions, sense and identity of region, regional cooperation, collaboration and governance, the future of the region
  • Clean energy, solar technology
  • Political-economic borders/boundaries, history of nation-states, future of nation-states
  • Public policy, making, decision-making, history of field of study
  • Government, purpose of government, organization and structure of government, rule-making processes, individual function within definite and indefinite government systems, the politics of government at the campus, city, county, state level, focused on representative government in California and the United States, governing dynamics of California
  • Party politics, state and national
  • Learning, modes of learning, differences in learning styles, how individuals’ brains process information, how new knowledge is produced
  • Outer space, NASA, future missions to the Moon and Mars, colonization of other planets (inspired by the computer game Outpost)