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Faculty Research Interests Profile
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College of Arts and Sciences
Anthropology, Geography, and Earth Science
- Ayad, Yasser 814-393-2990
Research Interests:
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Landscape Ecology, Urban/Regional planning
- Remote sensing, environmental planning
- Middle East
- Howes, David W. 814-393-2576
Research Interests:
- Local community development - recreation facilities development
- International education
- Remote sensing
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Allegheny Valley Trails Assoc. Rail-Trail Development Plan (Penndot)
- McGreevy, Patrick 814-393-2649
Research Interests:
- 19th Century historical geography of USA
- Cross-disciplinary work involving history, literacy studies, social
theory, and technology studies
- Currently working on a book on Erie Canal; previous book on Niagara
Falls
- Prezzano, Susan C. 814-393-2396
Research Interests:
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- North American Indians
- Iroquois Indians
- Intrasite Spatial Analysis (GIS)
- Vega, Anthony J. 814-393-2023
Research Interests:
- Synoptic climatology - relating upper atmospheric flow variations to
temperature and precipitation variability in the Eastern US
- Hurricanes, tornadoes
- Paleoclimatology
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- An Examination of Paleoclimatic Events Along the Middle Orinoco
River (CUP FPDC)
Art Department
- Franchino, Mark 814-393-2523
Research Interests:
- Katz, April 814-393-2468
Research Interests:
- Grant opportunities that will enable continued work as a studio
artist in printmaking
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Marking Time (PA FPDC Creative Arts Grant)
- Malley, Dianne 814-393-2523
Research Interests:
- Increasing support for Sandford Gallery
- Artistic research involving women's history
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Organizational Support (WESTFA/National Endowment for the Arts)
- Tell It Like A Woman (CUP FPDC)
- Thomas, Joe A. 814-393-2470
Research Interests:
- Art history, concentrating on modern/contemporary and Italian
Renaissance
- Sexology, gender/women's studies, gay studies
- American popular culture, history of the sexual revolution, the
sixties
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Fullbright Lectureship to Taiwan (pending)
Biology Department
- Dalby, Peter 814-393-2164
Research Interests:
- Vertebrate biology
- Watershed restoration
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Watershed Restoration (Wm McLean Contributionship)
- Watershed Restoration (EPA and CUP)
- Formal Community Responses (National Fuel and Bureau of Forestry)
- McPherson, Roger 814-393-2560
Research Interests:
- Basic and applied physiological ecology of lower vertebrates
including: reproductive variation in lower vertebrates; steroid
regulation of reproduction and behavior in lower vertebrates;
reproductive toxicology in lower vertebrates; environmental biology.
- Morrow, Terry 814-393-2164
Research Interests:
- Acid mine drainage mitigation, including microbiology associated
with treatment systems
- Recovery of watersheds (biological and chemical) after AMD
mitigation
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Contract for water testing (chemical) at Mill Creek (Headwaters
Charitable Trust)
- Bacteria water testing (Clarion Area Authority)
- Sparlin, Judith Pittsburgh Site (412) 578-6822
Research Interests:
- Equipment for anatomy and physiology lab used only by nursing
students
- Turner, Andrew M. 814-393-2164
Research Interests:
- Aquatic ecology
- Water quality
- Fish and invertebrate biology
Biology - Biotechnology Center
- Hummrich, Robert 814-393-2184
Research Interests
- Economic development
- Business development
- Life science/biotechnology
- Nanotechnology
- Geographical Information systems
- Industrial math
- Computational science/biology
- Environmental science
Communication Department
- Nulph Robert G., Dr. 814-393-2489
Research Interests
- Broadcast Production
- Documentary Production
- Use of Media
- Washington, Joanne 814-393-2526
Research Interests:
- Instructional technology
- People of color
- Learning communities using technology
- Cross and intracultural communication using technology
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Women of Color Symposium (CUP FPDC)
- Project M.O.V.E (CUP FPDC)
Computer Information Science Department
- Mensah, Stephen 814-393-2733
Research Interests:
- Computer applications in business operations
- Innovative ways to teach information technology courses
- Innovative ways to involve businesses in the training
- Smaby, Richard 814-226-2115
Research Interests:
- Computational linguistics
- Software engineering
English Department
- Graham, Kathryn 814-393-2587 or 2482
Research Interests:
- Women's literature
- 19th century literature
- The Novel: 18th - 20th century
- British romance literature
- Teaching writing
- Basic writing
- Pedagogy
- Feminist criticism
- Huber, Joan R. Venango Campus 814-676-6591
Research Interests:
- Composition pedagogy
- Writing
- Values
- Interdisciplinary
- Leary, Ralph 814-393-2533
Research Interests:
- Dramatic literature by Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, African
Americans, Asian Americans, etc.
- Roberts, Brian 814-393-2737
Research Interests:
- African-American studies
- Minority student development
- Wilson, Don 814-393-2154
Research Interests:
- English-Canadian literature and culture
- French-Canadian literature and culture in translation
History Department
- Dunn, Brian 814-393-2553
Research Interests:
- Social policies of Nazi Germany
- Frakes, Robert 814-393-2375
Research Interests:
- Roman Administration and Justice
- Roman Historiography
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship at University of Munich
- Smaby, Beverly 814-393-2502
Research Interests:
- Early Moravian history (US colonial, 18th century German, women=s
history, history of religion)
Mathematics Department
- Beal, Jon 814-393-2339
Research Interests:
- Mathematics across the curriculum
- Integrating experiments in math classrooms
- Training of faculty on technology (high school and colleges)
- Integrating technology in lower division mathematics courses
- Linear programming and interior point methods
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Mathematics Across the Curriculum (NSF OSU-UNL)
- Freed, Ben 814-393-2592
Research Interests:
- Parker, Melanie S. 814-393-2598
Research Interests:
- Multiplicative structures within the middle school curriculum
- Instructional explanations in mathematics, K - 12
- Pre-service teacher cognition in mathematics content, elementary and
secondary
- Representation issues in percent
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Leinhardt project at the Learning Research and Development Center
at the University of Pittsburgh (OERIO)
- Reynolds, James J. 814-393-2102
Research Interests:
- Curriculum development
- Calculus reform
- Integration of technology
- Student research opportunities
Music Department
- Register, Brent 814-393-2473
Research Interests:
- Music performance and historical research
- Collaborative projects - music and visual arts
- Visual arts
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Chambers Players (CUP FPDC)
Physics Department
- Challener, Sharon 814-393-2713
Research Interests:
- Science education (physics and astronomy)
- History of astronomy, including ancient astronomy or
archaeoastronomy
- Pearce, Joshua M. 814-393-2713
Research Interests
- Solar photovoltaic devise physics
- Amorphous+
- Nanocrystalline
- Materials physics
- Applied sustainability
- Nanotechnology
Political Science, Sociology, and Philosophy
Department
- Bartkowiak, Julia 814-393-2549
Research Interests:
- Ethics - media ethics
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Media Involvement in Human Rights Abuses (SSHE FPDC)
- Lavin, Todd Robert 814-393-2555
Research Interests:
- Asian philosophy and religion
- Jewish, Christian and Islamic philosophy and religion
- Inter-faith dialogue
- Existentialism
- Contemporary continental European philosophy
- Petrissans, Cathy 814-393-2358
Research Interests:
- Faculty Development: Putting together a consulting workshop
- Funding Faculty Development
- Rumsey, Jean P. 814-393-2391
Research Interests:
- Death and dying: Philosophical and practical aspects
Psychology Department
- Ashcraft, Donna 814-393-1870
Research Interest
- Use of technology in the Classroom
- Grigsby, Jan 814-393-2430
Research Interests:
- Gay and lesbian issues
- Sexual abuse survivors
- Haynes, Marite R. 814-393-1992
Research Interests:
- Co-principal investigator of a study on parent and attachment
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Schlueter, Dave 814-393-2295
Research Interests:
- Student eating disorders; alcohol use
- Biofeedback - measure of anxiety - will look at relationship between
physiological arousal and self-reports
Speech Communication
- McCauliff, Barry 814-393-2464
Research Interests:
- Speech comm. - assisting student retention and success
- Small groups - use/effect of reflective thinking within decision
making
- Baseball - impact on society; effective communication in the sport
- Obotetkudo, Sol W. 814-393-2478
Research Interests:
- Political communications, international communication; Rhetorical
theory
- Intercultural communication, development communication; literacy
studies
- Language and communication; Rhetorical criticism and theory
- Public address; Campaign communications; Orality and literacy
College of Business Administration
Accountancy
- Barnes, Greg Venango (814) 676-6591 X267
Research Interests:
- Accounting/Finance
- Investment/Portfolio analysis
- Chen, Shimin 814-393-2583
Research Interests:
- Management accounting
- Use of financial statement information
Administrative Science
- Pesek, Jim 814-393-2626
Research Interests:
- Total Quality Management (TQM)
- Employment-at-will
- Evaluating recruiting sources
- Tangpong, Charnchai 814-393-2053
Research Interests
- Organization and Strategy : Firm Performance, interorganizational
relationships, organization behavior
- Interpersonal relationships: divorce and marriage
Finance
- Belloit, Jerry 814-393-2208
Research Interests:
- Real estate
- Land use planning
- Eichlin, John 814-393-2604
Research Interests:
- Ewedemi, Soga 814-393-2626
Research Interests:
- Chaos and theory of accidents
- Cost of capital (finance)
- Bankruptcy (finance)
- Agent theory (finance)
- Quesenberry, Legene 814-393-2603
Research Interests:
- Environmental law
- International environmental law
- American Indian law
- Rights and Liabilities of Creators and Collectors of Art
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Ecotourism: A Hyperbolic Sustainable Development Technique
- Dimensions in Sculpted Art
- How Much Cultural Assimilation Has Taken Place in Gift Giving by
Subculture
Counseling Services
- Fricko, Mary Ann 814-393-2255
Research Interests:
- Sexual assault
- Eating disorders
- Counseling of women=s concerns
College of Education
Academic Support Services
- Kole, James 814-393-1872
Research Interests:
- Career development
- Creativity
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Venango Campus Smoking Cessation Support Initiative (CUP FPDC)
- Clarion University Center for Smoking Cessation Grant (CUP FPDC)
- Par Course Grant (Phillips Trust)
Educational Opportunities Program/Act 101
- Sessoms, Isaiah 814-393-2321
Research Interests:
- Counseling
- Education
- Cognition
- African American cognitive learning styles
- Disadvantaged students (K-12 and higher education)
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Educational Opportunities Program/Act 101 (State)
Upward Bound
- Kula, John 814-393-2342
Research Interests:
- Student development
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Upward Bound Program (US Dept of Ed)
- Summer Food Service Program (PA Dept of Agriculture)
Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Jarecki-Liu, Janis 814-393-2445
Research Interests:
- Accent reduction in speakers of English as a second language or
dialect
- Language loss resulting from neurogenic insult (e.g. stroke,
dementia, TBI)
- Linnan, Kathy 814-393-2513
Research Interests:
- Normal development and communication disorders in child
speech/phonology/language - ages birth to five as well as school aged
children
- Clinical supervision in communication sciences and disorders
- Savage, Hallie 814-393-2588
Research Interests:
- Infant/family focused
- Professional voice
- Infusion of technology
Education
Health and Physical Education Department
- Baschnagel, Norbert A. 814-393-2248
Research Interests:
- Physical fitness
- Basketball coaching strategies
- Improving graduation rates of student-athletes
- Improving sportsmanship at Clarion University
- English, Bill 814-393-1891
Research Interests:
- Developing a wellness/fitness center for employees
- Leas, Rebecca R. 814-393-2390
Research Interests:
- Experts vs. novices
- Problem based learning
- Idea based social constructivism and their impact on learning and
development of expertise
- Taylor, Dick 814-393-2454
Research Interests:
Library Science
- Gamaluddin, Connie 812-393-2329
Research Interests
- Library Resources
- Technology Information Literacy
- Maccaferri, James T. 814-393-1854
Research Interests:
- Cataloging, with specific reference to authority control and expert
systems
- Preservation of library materials (would like to set up joint
preservation laboratory with Carlson Library)
- Miller, Andrea 814-393-2378
Research Interests:
- Collaborative planning between pre-service elementary classroom
teachers and elementary school library media specialists
Special Education and Rehabilitative Sciences
- Clary, Greg 814-393-2347
Research Interests:
- Developmental education
- Services for students with disabilities
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Student Support Services (US Dept of Education)
- Trio Program
- Feroz, Ray 814-393-2052
Research Interests:
- Leadership, followership
- Substance abuse: dependency
- Organizational behavior management/chaos
- Education/family/human services
- Hazing
- Harassment
- Violence
- Juvenile Treatment
- Gent, Pam 814-393-2051
Research Interests:
- Special education - severe handicaps, teacher training
- Service learning
- Huwar, Bryan 814-393-2346
Research Interests:
- Inclusionary practices in education
- School reform
- Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Abraxas Project
- Union School District (CUP Partnership)
- Higher Education Initiatives (PA Dept of Ed)
- Partnerships in Education (CUP College of Education Research
Grant)
- Kilwein, Mark 814-393-2486
Research Interest
- HIV and Mental Health
- Dual Diagnosis
- Major Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders
- Research Grant/Contracts
- Northwest Pennsylvania Rural AIDS Alliance
- Director of Mental Health (HRSA, Title III)
- Krouse, Jim 814-393-2590
Research Interests:
- Autism
- Special education teacher training
- Turner, Lisa 814-393-2589
Research Interests:
- Transition; parent/family
- Collaboration
Nursing
- Pritchett, Linda Pittsburgh Site (412) 578-4337
Research Interests:
- Diabetes - problems with adherence to regimen
- Problems with adherence to other chronic illness
- Gerontology - health promotion, problems with multiple medications,
care giver stress, coping strategies used by care givers of Alzheimer=s
patients, etc.
- Middle aged adults - health problems, coping, strategies, etc.
- Moore, Shelly (814) 393-1260
Recent Grants/Contracts:
- Clarion University Wide Grant (2004)
- Stright, Barbara R. Venango (814) 676-6591 X261
Research Interests:
- Obtaining funding to buy equipment for nursing skills labs
- A two-year study that contracts with a local transportation company
to provide mini bus service access between CUP and Venango - Does access
make a difference in the number of out of high school students enrolled
in the ASN program?
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