- Email:
- wreilly@indiana.edu
Whitney Schlegel cultivates a faculty community at the center to implement and scale proven approaches and innovate new modes for rural engagement. Whitney is an associate professor of biology at IU. She has been an integral faculty partner in the center’s Sustaining Hoosier Communities program, connecting her physiology students with Lawrence and Orange counties on health and wellness projects.
Whitney holds a Ph.D. in environmental physiology and behavior from the University of Illinois, where she also earned her master’s and bachelor’s degrees.