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
• Virginia Griswold: Visual Arts, Sculpture, Craft, Site-Specific Art, Interdisciplinary Approaches, Mixed Media

Biology

• Carol Baskauf: Plant population genetics and ecology/ecophysiology  with a particular interest in endangered species.
• Chad Brooks: Pathogenic microbiology and biotechnology
• 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.
• Sarah Lundin-Schiller: Using bioassays to screen for Endocrine Disrupting Compounds
• 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

Langauages 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

• Samuel N. Jator: Computational Mathematics, Financial Mathematics, Mathematical Biology, and Classical Equations of Mathematical Physics
• 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
• Uma Iyer: Organizational leadership, performance management, Employee perceptions, Attitudes and behavior, Diversity and cross-cultural issues in the workplace.
• Stephen Truhon: Industrial and military psychology 

Sociology

• TBD

Theatre and Dance

• Marcus Hayes: Dance Choreography, Performance, Dance pedagogy, Corporeal studies, Race and gender studies and popular culture.