Dr. Janie McClurkin Moore is an Assistant Professor in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at Texas A&M University in College Station. A native of Columbus, Ohio, she attended North Carolina A&T State University where she received a B.S. in Bio Environmental Engineering in 2006. She then began pursuing her graduate education at Purdue University in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, completing her Ph.D. in 2015. While at Purdue, Dr. Moore was a Scholar in the Midwest Crossroads Alliance for Graduate Education in the Professoriate. She also worked closely with Engineering Education, LSAMP, MEP and the College of Engineering at Purdue.

Before moving to Texas, Dr. Moore was an Assistant Professor in the Biological and Environmental Science Department at California University of Pennsylvania, in California, PA. She created the Biogas Energy AcadeMy, which exposed more than 100 eighth grade students from Pittsburgh Public Schools to the University’s Farm and lessons in Renewable Energy.

Dr. Moore’s current research centers around three different areas 1) the inactivation of biological threat agents with post-harvest treatment technologies, 2) mycotoxin risk assessment in stored grains and 3) innovated instruction strategies for Biological and Agricultural Engineering students.