Office of Research welcomes the following new faculty members
The Office of Research & Sponsored Programs welcomes the following new faculty members:
Name: Marietta Del Favaro
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Educational Leadership, Counseling and Foundations
Specialty: Higher education administration
Ph.D. received from: Vanderbilt University
Ph.D. received in: Education and Human Development, 2001
Dissertation title: “Discipline Differences in the Administrative Behaviors of Academic Deans”
Name: Roxane L. Dufrene
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Educational Leadership, Counseling and Foundations
Specialty: Crisis intervention
Ph.D. received from: Mississippi State University
Ph.D. received in: Counselor Education, 2000
Dissertation title: “Designing and Validating a Measure of Ethical Orientation of Counselors: The Ethical Decision-Making Scale-Revised EDMS-R”
Name: Robert Laird
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Psychology
Specialty: Child and adolescent development in family and peer contexts
Ph.D. received from: Auburn University
Ph.D. received in: Human Development & Family Sciences, 1996
Dissertation title: “Peer Relationships and Adolescent Behavioral Adjustment: A Test of Three Models”
Name: Zhengchang Liu
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Biological Sciences
Specialty: Signal transduction pathways in baking yeast
Ph.D. received from: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Ph.D. received in: Molecular Biology, 2001
Dissertation title: “Studies of the retrograde response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae-target gene identification, regulation of the pathway”
Name: James D. Lowry
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Geography
Specialty: Cultural geography and ecology, environmental perception, geographic education
Ph.D. received from: University of Arizona
Ph.D. received in: Geography, 1996
Dissertation title: “Mapping the Vernacular Southwest”
Name: Monica A. Marsee
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Psychology
Specialty: Youth social and emotional development
Ph.D. received from: University of New Orleans
Ph.D. received in: Applied Developmental Psychology, 2005
Dissertation title: “Exploring the Functional Subtypes of Relational and Overt Aggression in a Sample of Detained Girls”
Name: Deepak R. Mishra
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Earth & Environmental Sciences
Specialty: Remote sensing and GIS
Ph.D. received from: University of Nebraska School of Natural Resources
Ph.D. received in: Geospatial Science, 2006
Dissertation title: “Multi- and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Tropical Marine Benthic Habitats”
Name: David Pearlman
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Lester E. Kabacoff School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Administration
Specialty: Tourism development and convention management
Ph.D. received from: Michigan State University
Ph.D. received in: Travel and tourism research and development, 1997
Dissertation title: “Three revenue prediction models for US casinos utilizing competition and site attribute variables”
Name: Doreen Piano
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: English, 2003
Specialty: Rhetoric and composition, women’s studies
Ph.D. received from: Bowling Green University
Ph.D. received in: English
Dissertation title: “Congregating Women: Reading the Rhetorical Arts of Third Wave Subcultural Production”
Name: Pierre F. Poudeu Poudeu
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Advanced Materials Research Institute and Department of Chemistry
Specialty: Inorganic solid state chemistry and materials science
Ph.D. received from: Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Ph.D. received in: Inorganic Solid State Chemistry, 2004
Dissertation title: “Quaternary Silver Bismuth Chalcogenide Halides Ag – Bi – Q – X, (Q = S, Se; X = Cl, Br) Syntheses and Crystal Structures”
Name: Meikang Qiu
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Electrical Engineering
Specialty: Embedded systems, low power design, mobile interface browsing, heterogeneous sensor networks, data mining and security, hardware/software codesign
Ph.D. received from: University of Texas at Dallas
Ph.D. received in: Computer Science, 2007
Dissertation title: “Time and Power Optimization for Heterogeneous Parallel Embedded Systems”
Name: John Renne
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Planning and Urban Studies
Specialty: Transportation and land use planning
Ph.D. received from: Rutgers University
Ph.D. received in: Urban Planning and Policy Development, 2005
Dissertation title: “Transit-Oriented Development: Measuring Benefits, Analyzing Trends, and Evaluating Policy”
Name: Kisang Ryu
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Lester E. Kabacoff School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Administration
Specialty: Hospitality marketing, hospitality finance, and research methodology
Ph.D. received from: Kansas State University
Ph.D. received in: Hotel, Restaurant, Institution Management and Dietetics, 2005
Dissertation title: “DINESCAPE, Emotions, and Behavioral Intentions in Upscale Restaurants”
Name: Robert Sims
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Political Science
Specialty: Political behavior/public opinion
Ph.D. received from: University of New Orleans
Ph.D. received in: Political Science, 1996
Dissertation title: “Re-examining the Influence of Religious Belief on the Vote”
Name: R. Denis Soignier
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Psychology
Specialty: Applied biopsychology
Ph.D. received from: University of New Orleans
Ph.D. received in: Psychology, 2000
Dissertation title: “Tolerance and cross tolerance to the analgesic actions of morphine, endomorphin-1 and -2 in mice”
Name: Christopher Summa
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Specialty: Bioinformatics, computational biology
Ph.D. received from: University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. received in: Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 2002
Dissertation title: “Computational Methods and their Applications for de novo Functional Protein Design and Membrane Protein Solubilization”
Name: Claire Amy Thoreson
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Educational Leadership, Counseling & Foundations
Specialty: Measurement and statistical analysis
Ph.D. received from: University of Chicago, Dept. of Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistical Analysis
Ph.D. received in: Education, 2003; Post doc in Sociology, 2004
Dissertation title: “Trends in African American – White Differences in Academic Achievement and College Attendance”
Name: Dongxiao Zhu
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Specialty: Bioinformatics
Ph.D. received from: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ph.D. received in: Bioinformatics, 2006
Dissertation title: “Reconstructing signaling pathways from high throughput data”
Authored by Rebecca Drake on February 19, 2008