Science

Faculty and Research Interests

Anne Allison (University of Virginia, PhD), assistant professor of biology

Paul Deeble (University of Virginia, PhD), assistant professor of biology: mechanisms of prostate cancer progression

Paul Callo (University of Maryland, PhD), assistant professor of biology: study of red-eyed vireos, including territory fidelity, survivorship, and prevalence of blood parasites

Maria Craig (University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD), assistant professor of chemistry: autoimmune disease and DNA-binding peptides

In 2009, Louise Freeman received more than $72,000 in stimulus grants from the National Institutes of Health to continue her research on hormonal and sex differences in musk shrews, small, mouse-like mammals. She is already using the grants to hire interns, increase the size of the shrew colony, and expand on-site research facilities.

Louise Freeman (University of California at Berkley, PhD), associate professor of psychology: hormones, behaviors, and sex differences

Nadine Gergel-Hackett (University of Virginia, PhD), assistant professor of physics: the design, fabrication, and physics of novel materials and devices (such as molecular electronics and memristors) with advantages in scaling and energy for future low-power high-performance electronicsges in scaling and energy for future low-power high-performance electronics

Jenna Holt (James Madison University, PsyD), assistant professor of psychology

James Hughes (University of Virginia, PhD), visiting assistant professor of mathematics

Matthew Hunsinger (University of Massachusetts, PhD), assistant professor of psychology: prejudices, stereotyping, and intergroup relations

Eric Jones (Penn State University, PhD), associate professor of biology: reestablishment of native warm-season grasses and floral survey of Augusta County, Virginia

Heather Macalister (University of Georgia, Cornell University; Duke University, PhD), assistant professor of psychology: psychosocial development and gender

Chandra Mason (The City University of New York, PhD candidate), assistant professor of psychology: work-family expectations, attitudes and behaviors, gender, and social roles

Jodie Miller (Columbus State University, MEd), instructor of math: technology in mathematics

Patricia Murphy (University of Vermont-Burlington, PhD), assistant professor of psychology: effects of the media and forensic issues, particularly as relates to racial perceptions

John Ong (University of Virginia, PhD), associate professor of mathematics: waves, partial differential equations and their applications

Lundy Pentz (The Johns Hopkins University, PhD), associate professor of biology: pollution in local waterways, uses in situ RT-PCR to study renin gene expression in developing mouse kidney

Peter Ruiz-Haas(Oregon State University, PhD), assistant professor of chemistry: water pollutants, endocrine-disrupting compounds, techniques to degrade or destroy trace-level pollutants

Karl Zachary (University of Florida, PhD), assistant professor of chemistry: complexes that control the way molecules signal for drug delivery