Dominique Pride receives faculty promotion

Dominique Pride
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Dominque Pride has been promoted to research associate professor.

May 16, 2024

Research Assistant Professor Dominique Pride has been promoted to the rank of research associate professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, effective July 1.

Pride’s research with ACEP focuses on energy and environmental economics and applied microeconomics, with energy cost burden, residential energy efficiency and energy demand as her main interests.

Pride led the Pump Monitoring Apparatus fuel meter and the Secure and Resilient Power Generation in Cold Environments Phase 1 projects. She is currently leading the following projects: Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, Displacing Wood Use with Electric Thermal Storage Heating to Improve Ambient Air Quality, and Reducing Fuel Oil Consumption in Rural Arctic Communities.

Pride is also working on the energy economics and policy task for the Alaska Regional Collaboration for Technology Innovation and Commercialization 1 project, as well as the residential energy task and the energy data and metering task for the ARCTIC 2 project.

“Dominique is an established leader within ACEP and is also quickly becoming a globally recognized researcher for her work on energy-cost burden,” ACEP Director Jeremy Kasper said.

“I very much look forward to hearing about all the of challenges she will solve as she continues to pursue her unique and important work.”

Pride completed a bachelor’s degree in economics from Marshall University. She then earned a master’s degree in resource and applied economics and doctoral degree in natural resources and sustainability, both from UAF.

Congratulations to Pride on her achievements!