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Faculty Research Interests

Department of Athletic Training

Sally Perkins (M.S., Indiana University)
Athletic injuries; Laser joint surgery; Youth fitness; Physical activity and older adults; Women's health; Athletic training accreditation, education, and administration.

Joseph S. Bettencourt, Jr. (Ph.D., University of New Hampshire)
Parasitology, especially marine fish hematozoa.

Luis Espinasa (Ph.D., New York University)
Cave Biology

Victoria A. Ingalls (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts)
Behavioral and evolutionary ecology.

Raymond Kepner (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University)
Microbial ecology of aquatic and polar systems; Extremophiles; Exobiology; Bacterial and cyanobacterial viruses; Protozoology; Ice-covered lakes; Freshwater ecotoxicology.

Andrew Ryder (Ph.D., Cornell University)
Bacterial response to environmental changes.

Michael G. Tannenbaum (Ph.D., Clemson University) Physiological and nutritive ecology of small mammals.

Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, & Physics

Robert Balogh-Robinson (M.A., SUNY-New Paltz)
Instrumentation and computer interfacing.

Neil Fitzgerald (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts)
Atomic analysis using flow through and microwave chemistry; Environmental Chemistry.

John Galbraith (Ph.D., University of Georgia)
Theoretical aspects of chemical bonding through computational modeling.

Jocelyn M. Nadeau (Ph.D., Brown University)
Synthesis of organic small molecules and polymers with interesting photochemical and/or electrochemical properties for the study of donor-acceptor interactions and charge-transport phenomena.

Elisa Woolridge (Ph.D., SUNY-Stony Brook).
Biochemistry; Mechanism and application of enzymes for delignification and biomass conversion; Biotechnology applications for the pulp and paper industry; Bioremediation.

Department of Environmental Science & Policy

Richard S. Feldman (Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton)
Sustainable agriculture and freshwater ecology.

Zofia E. Gagnon (Ph.D., Wroclaw University)
Toxicology of heavy metals; Identification of metallothionien in plants and animals; Mechanism of tolerance to heavy metals.

Thomas Lynch (Ph.D., Michigan State University)
Bioavailability of persistent organic compounds; Impact of pollutants on streams and rivers; Aquatic entomology; Zebra mussel ecology.

Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences

Katherine Greiner (M.S., Michigan State University)
Immunohematology and clinical microbiology; Case Studies in clinical microbiology.

Catherine Newkirk (M.S., University of Bridgeport)
Hematology and Hemostatis; Heavy metal accumulation in plant and animal tissues and associated pathological changes.

Robert J. Sullivan (Ph.D., University of Connecticut)
Laboratory medicine; Critical issues related to patient care; Laboratory safety in educational settings and herbal medicines.