David Fisher

Associate Professor of Botany
Director of the Sustainable Living program
B.S., North Carolina State University at Raleigh
M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

David Fisher served as a research scientist at the USDA Forest Experiment Station in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, a Humboldt fellow at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and a researcher in the Botany Department at the University of Wisconsin. Prior to joining the faculty of Maharishi University of Management, he was a professor and researcher at the University of Hawaii. His research on potato breeding has been supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Lawrence (Lonnie) A. Gamble, P.E.

Assistant Professor of Sustainable Living
B.S., North Carolina State University

Mr. Gamble is active in community organizing in all areas of sustainable living. He and his wife Valerie grow and sell vegetables locally in Fairfield, Iowa. He has been living for 10 years in a solar and wind powered straw bale home. He has published articles in Home Power Magazine and the proceedings of the American Solar Energy Society. He regularly speaks at conferences and seminars, including the Midwest Renewable Energy Conference, the Iowa Renewable Energy Conference, the American Solar Energy Society conference. Previously, he founded five companies in the areas of telecommunications and renewable energy development. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University and is a registered professional engineer. Mr. Gamble is a Licensed Professional Engineer (Maine).

Steve McLaskey

Assistant Professor of Biology and Agriculture
B.S. Maharishi International University
M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University

Steve McLaskey leads the University’s undergraduate program in sustainable agriculture. He manages the organic vegetable garden and permaculture fruit orchard that are used as outdoor laboratories. His efforts are largely responsible for bringing organic food to the campus dining halls and making the University’s food service a model for such large universities as Yale and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Robert Keith Wallace

Professor of Physiology
B.S., University of California at Los Angeles
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles

Dr. Robert Keith Wallace is recognized as the pioneering researcher in the neurophysiology of higher states of consciousness. His seminal research was published in such prestigious scientific journals as Scientific American, Science, and The American Journal of Physiology. After receiving his Ph.D. in physiology in 1970 at University of California, at Los Angeles, he did postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wallace is the author of two books, The Neurophysiology of Enlightenment and The Physiology of Consciousness, and has lectured extensively around the world.

John Collins

Instructor of Sustainable Living
B.Sc., Bristol University (England)

Alex Kachan

Instructor of Sustainable Living
B.A., Maharishi University of Management

Alex Kachan is an instructor of sustainable agriculture, composting, and natural beekeeping. He earned his B.A. in Maharishi Vedic Medicine from Maharishi University of Management. He is a qualified teacher of Grow Biointensive Organic Sustainable Gardening and Mini-Farming. Alex is also an Iowa Master Gardener (intern) and the manager of the University’s CSA organic student farm.

Brian Horsfield

Adjunct Professor of Geology
B.S., University of East Anglia, U.K. 1978
PhD, University of East Anglia, U.K. 1984

Following his undergraduate studies in Environmental Sciences, Brian Horsfield specialized in Glacial Geology comparing recent glacial deposits in Scotland with modern analogues in Iceland and Spitsbergen. He has worked in the diamond exploration industry in Canada, South Africa, Australia and Finland, and as a lecturer in Geography and Earth Sciences at Bermuda College. He founded Island Maps, a digital cartography company based in Bermuda, and served as Vice President of Vastu Development Corporation; a company developing 70 acres of land on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia for residences built according to principles of Maharishi Sthapatya Veda.

Michael W. Lerom, M.S.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Michael Lerom received his M.S. degree in organic chemistry from the University of Oregon. He worked as a synthetic organic chemist at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute) for 13 years and then came to Maharishi University of Management, where he teaches general chemistry and organic chemistry courses.

Diana Krystofiak

Instructor of Sustainable Living
B.A., Maharishi International University