He received his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia in Molecular Physiology and completed his postdoctoral studies at Stanford University in Human Biology. He is director of the CF Research Lab and STEM Learning Lab (http://www.msu.edu/~luckie). He and his research groups pursue both discipline-based physiology research into pH abnormalities and invasive pathogens in the disease, cystic fibrosis, as well as scholarship into the use of visual models, interdisciplinary discourse, and inquiry laboratories to increase student higher-level learning in the sciences.