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

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 (Montclair State University, EdD), assistant professor of math: quantitative literacy and technology in math education

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