Faculty Mentors
The following list shows faculty for all departments who are interested in working with undergraduates research students. You may click on a name to send an email.
Accounting
- Brandon Di Paolo Harrison: Corporate performance impact on budgeting decisions.
- Susan Cockrell: Corporate performance impact on budgeting decisions
Allied Health Sciences
- Perry Scanlan: MRSA, HSV, Medical Laboratory Science, Microbiolgy, Health Care Research
Art
- Paul Collins: Visual Arts, Curating, Exhibitions, Collaboration in the Creative Arts, Non-Profit Management
Biology
- Sergei Markov: Biofuels Research: using algae for biofuel production and carbon mitigation; Hydrogen production by microorganisms in bioreactors. Molecular Biology: conformational regulation of the hydrogenase gene expression.
- Rebecca Johansen: Evolution, ecology and biogeography of North American freshwater fishes
- Cindy Taylor: Amphibian biology
Chemical Engineering Technology
- TBD
Chemistry
- Leslie Hiatt: Determining electrochomic potential of carotenoids and quantitatively accessing the nicotine content of electronic cigarettes
- Meagan Mann: Finding and making new chemicals that bind to the estrogen receptor
- Robin Reed: Study of cyclic nucleotide dependent protein kinases and proteins with which they interact
Communications
- Yunying Zhang: Media Effects, Campaign Effects and Internet Impact
Computer Science & Information Technology
- Leong Lee: Data mining and algorithm with respect to hydraulic geometry and second-order differential equation; Protein secondary structure prediction, neural networks, and association rule visualization; Data mining with respect to bioinformatics, machine learning algorithms, and analysis of large data sets; Web application development for bioinformatics, ontology development, and relational database design
- John Nicholson:Mobile and ubiquitous computing, assistive technology, robotics, computational journalism
Education
- TBD
Engineering Technology
- TBD
Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Daniel L. Frederick: Invertebrate paleontology, Biostratigraphy, and Paleoecology
- Christopher Gentry: Biogeography, Dendrochronology, Fire Ecology, Paleoenvironments, GIS and Remote Sensing Available
- Christine Mathenge: Natural resources management, Human-environment interactions
Health and Human Performance
- Lisa O'Dear Lewis: Creative movement therapy, Dance therapy
Languages and Literature
- Osvaldo Di Paolo: Detective fiction, Latin American Testimonial Texts, Humor in Latin American Films and Literature, Romanticism in Latin America, Science Fiction in the Hispanic world
- Timothy Winters: Greek epigraphy, History, Literature, Archaeology
- David Major: Technical Writing
Library
TBD
Mathematics and Statistics
- Ben Ntatin: Complex analysis/geometry, Study of students' mathematical beliefs (MathEd), and strategies involved in redesigning calculus courses.
Music
- TBD
Nursing
- Amy Hamlin: Nursing Shortage, Nursing Education, Teaching Strategies, Patient Safety, Pediatric Health
Physics and Astronomy
- B. Alex King III: Computational techniques applied to the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and theoretical high-energy physics.
- Andriy Kovalskyy: Structure, properties and applications of amorphous solids, such as glasses and thin films.
- Justin Oelgoetz: Chemical Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Spectroscopy and electronic structure of novel materials at the molecular, nano, and bulk scales and of plasmas and the collisional and radiative processes that connect various states, Novel applications of thermodynamics and kinetics,Application of the numerical methods used in the above areas to non traditional systems such as disaster recovery.
Political Science
- John Phillips:Research data on oil taxation and ownership in countries across the world, Municipal policies on advertising on public property.
Psychology
- Brian Hock: Addiction studies
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Uma Iyer: Organizational leadership, performance management, Employee perceptions, Attitudes and behavior, Diversity and cross-cultural issues in the workplace.
Sociology
- TBD
Theatre and Dance
- TBD