WISE Faculty


WISE Faculty
Shelley Aikman Psychology saikman@syr.edu Ext. 3667
Marina Artuso Physics martuso@syr.edu Ext. 2356	Dr. Artuso is a professor of physics at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on experimental elementary particle physics, specifically the study of two very interesting quarks, suitably called charm and beauty. She also works on several advanced detector technologies applied to heavy flavor experimental studies. Currently, she is working on the precision vertex detector for LHCb (VELO). http://www.phy.syr.edu/~artuso/
Suzanne Baldwin Geology sbaldwin@syr.edu Ext. 4920	Suzanne L. Baldwin, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Science, and Director of Syracuse University Noble Gas Isotope Research Laboratory (SUNGIRL). Her research investigates how mountain belts are formed, how rocks are exhumed, and the pressure-temperature-time-deformation history of plate boundaries on Earth. She is currently working on extensional orogens in Papua New Guinea, Antarctica, and Arizona, and compressional orogens in New Zealand and the Pyrenees Mountains of Spain and France. http://su-thermochronology.syr.edu/baldwin/baldwin.html
Shobha Bhatia Civil and Environmental Engineering skbhatia@syr.edu Ext. 3352
Kate Carey Center for Health and Behavior kbcarey@syr.edu Ext. 2706	Dr. Carey is a Professor of Psychology at Syracuse University, and an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University. She is a licensed psychologist in the state of New York and a Fellow of Divisions 12 (Clinical) and 50 (Addictions) of the American Psychological Association. Her clinical and research interests include assessment and treatment of substance use disorders, primary and secondary prevention of alcohol abuse and other health risk behaviors in college students, motivational enhancement interventions, and the co-occurrence of substance use and major psychiatric disorders. http://psychweb.syr.edu/facultystaff/research/drkcarey.htm
Laurel Carney Sensory Research lacarney@syr.edu Ext. 9749	Dr. Carney studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to acquire her B.S. in Electrical Engineering. Afterwards, she worked towards her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, she researches the neural processing of complex sounds along the auditory pathway in the central nervous system using physiological and behavioral techniques.
Catherine Cornwell Psychology cacornwe@syr.edu Ext. 3118
Andria Costello Staniec Civil and Environmental Engineering costello@ecs.syr.edu Ext. 1057	Dr. Costello Staniec joined the faculty at Syracuse University in January 1999. She received her doctoral degree in 1999 from the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Costello Staniec teaches courses in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research interests include issues related to bioremediation, global biogeochemical cycles, and changes in microbial communities in response to anthropogenic disturbance.
Helen Doerr Mathematics hmdoerr@syr.edu Ext. 1485	Dr. Doerr received her doctorial degree from Cornell University in 1994. She studies secondary math education and the use of computer technologies to enhance students' mathematical understandings and problem solving skills.
Karen Doherty Communication Sciences and Disorders kadohert@syr.edu Ext. 5662
Collette Eccleston Psychology cpeccles@syr.edu Ext. 2749
Tanya Eckert Psychology taeckert@syr.edu Ext. 3141
Mary Louise Edwards Communication Sciences and Disorders mledward@syr.edu Ext. 9645
Teresa Freedman Chemistry tbfreedm@syr.edu Ext. 1134	Dr. Freedman received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. She teaches courses related to physical and computational chemistry and biophysics. Currently, Dr. Freedman's research centers around investigating transition current density, which allows for the visualization of how electron density in molecules moves in response to nuclear motion or electronic excitation. She is working towards developing a brand new area of computational chemistry that offers exciting insight into understanding the origin of absorption and VCD intensity.
Rachel Gazdick Communications/Rhetorical Studies ragazdic@syr.edu Ext. 1254
Diane Grimes Communications/Rhetorical Studies dsgrimes@syr.edu Ext. 5136
Rachel Hall Communications/Rhetorical Studies rchall01@syr.edu Ext. 5140
Julie Hasenwinkel BMC Engineering jmhasenw@syr.edu Ext. 3064	Dr. Hasenwinkel works in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering. She received her doctoral degree from Northwestern University in 1999. She teaches courses in the areas of polymeric biomaterials, cell-materials interactions, and tissue engineering. She has done research in the areas of absorbable biopolymeric gels for the prevention of post-surgical tissue adhesions and novel two-solution bone cements for fixation of total joint replacements. Her current research interests are in polymeric biomaterials and tissue engineering.
Karen Hiiemae Sensory Research khiiemae@syr.edu Ext. 9709	Dr. Hiiemae received her Ph.D. from St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School and the Royal Dental Hospital School of Dental Surgery, from which she later received her B.D.S. (D.D.S.) in London. She joined the faculty in 1990 and teaches courses in biomechanics. Her research focuses on the biomechanics, functional morphology and evolution of the oro-facial complex in mammals. She is particularly interested in the neural control of the rhythmic movements of feeding: i.e. of the jaws, hyoid and larynx, tongue and soft palate, and in how they are modified in speech.
Marilyn Kerr Biology mskerr@syr.edu Ext. 3985	Dr. Kerr has been a faculty member at SU since 1970. She received her doctorial degree in 1966 from Duke University. She teaches courses on comparative vertebrate biology. Dr. Kerr has served as the Director of the Health Professions Advisory Program (HPAP). HPAP advises students and graduates of any Syracuse University College or School about academic requirements and other credentials necessary for application to medical and other health-related professional schools.
Hyune-Ju Kim Mathematics hjkim@syr.edu Ext. 1494	Hyune-Ju Kim received her Ph. D. in statistics from Stanford University in 1988. She has been teaching mathematics at Syracuse University since 1994. Her interests include change-point problems, sequential analysis, longitudinal analysis, boundary crossing problems, and statistics in genetics. http://web.syr.edu/~hjkim/cv.htm
Trish Lowney Sponsored Programs plowney@syr.edu Ext. 2882
Eleanor Maine Biology Research Lab emmaine@syr.edu Ext. 9169	Dr. Maine has been at Syracuse University since 1990. She received her Ph.D. in 1986 from Princeton University. Dr. Maine teaches courses in the areas of developmental biology, cell and germline development, and RNA silencing.
Nazanin Mansouri Computer and Info Science namansou@ecs.syr.edu Ext. 2483	Dr. Nazanin Mansouri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. She received the Ph.D. degree from University of Cincinnati in 2001. She is interested in development of models, methodologies, and tools for automated design and verification of the new generation of micro-electronic systems that are a hybrid of analog hardware, digital hardware and software. http://web.ecs.syr.edu/~namansou/
Cristina Marchetti Physics mcmarche@syr.edu Ext. 2581	Dr. Marchetti joined the faculty of the Syracuse University Physics Department in 1987. She attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, where she received her Ph.D. in Physics in 1982. She has taught a variety of courses, including general physics for science majors, introductory quantum mechanics for physics majors, and graduate courses in statistical and condensed matter physics. Her current research interests include superconductivity, the physics of soft materials, and non-equilibrium statistical physics.
Joanna Masingila Mathematics jomasing@syr.edu Ext. 1483	Joanna Masingila is a professor of mathematics and mathematics education at Syracuse University. Her current research interests include understanding student`s learning through connecting in-school and out-of-school mathematics practice, as well as teacher development. She has received numerous awards throughout her career including the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence award in 2003. http://soeweb.syr.edu/mathed/index.html
Laura Lee McIntyre Psychology llmcinty@syr.edu Ext. 2705
Susan Millar Geography swmillar@syr.edu Ext. 5635
Claudia Miller Mathematics cmille06@syr.edu Ext. 1490	Claudia Miller received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1997. After a postdoc at the University of Michigan and several visiting positions, she joined the Mathematics Department at Syracuse in 2003. Dr. Miller's research is in commutative algebra with a view towards algebraic geometry. http://web.syr.edu/~cmille06/
Anne Mosher Geography aemosher@syr.edu Ext. 1510
Allison Mountz Geography amountz@syr.edu Ext. 5637
Susan Older Computer and Info Studies sbolder@syr.edu Ext. 4679	Dr. Older received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996 and joined Syracuse University's faculty in January 1997. She has taught a variety of courses in programming languages, concurrency and mobility theory, and formal methods. These courses all touch on aspects of her research interests, which include the semantics of programming languages, concurrency and mobility theory, logics of programs, and security. Dr. Older is also the Education Director of the Center for Systems Assurance (CSA), whose mission is to promote improvement in systems and information assurance.
Lisa Osadciw Electrical and Computer Engineering laosadci@ecs.syr.edu Ext. 1319	Lisa Osadciw joined the faculty at Syracuse University in August 2001. Her research lies in the areas of RF sensors, communications and sensor networks. Lisa leads an active research group referred to as DREAMSNet, Development and Research in Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-Sensor Networks. She has 14 years of industry experience with Lockheed Martin including extensive experience in the signal and data processing of radar signals for the AN/FPS-117, TPS-117, TPS-59 radars, the Over-The-Horizon (OTH), ASR-8, ASR-9, and Microburst Prediction Radar. She is the co-chair of the local IEEE Aerospace and Electronics/Communications Chapter. http://web.syr.edu/~laosadci/
Melissa Pepling Biology Research Lab mepeplin@syr.edu Ext. 4541	Dr. Pepling joined the faculty in 2002. She received her PhD from SUNY-Stony Brook in 1995. She teaches courses in the area of cell and developmental Biology. Her research focuses on mouse reproductive biology. http://biology.syr.edu/pepling/index.html
Beth Prieve Communication Sciences and Disorders baprieve@syr.edu Ext. 9614
Jane Read Geography jaread@syr.edu Ext. 4279	Dr. Read received her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1999. She currently works as an Associate Professor in Syracuse University's geography department. Her research interests include applications of remote sensing and GIS to environmental and biogeographical questions related to tropical environments, tropical forest ecology, and human-environment interactions (land-use and land-cover changes) in Latin America (Costa Rica, Brazil). http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jread/
Virginia Rosen Psychology vrosen@syr.edu Ext. 4633
Karin Ruhlandt-Senge Chemistry kruhland@syr.edu Ext. 1306	Dr. Ruhlandt-Senge teaches courses about inorganic chemistry and crystallography. She received her Dr. rer. nat. from Philipps University in Marburg, Germany in 1991. Her research interests include coordination chemistry of the alkali and alkaline-earth metals.
Jureepan Saranak Physics jsaranak@syr.edu Ext. 9105
Jennifer Schwartz Physics jschwarz@syr.edu Ext. 3887
Kari Segraves Biology ksegrave@syr.edu Ext. 4899	Dr. Segraves studies the evolutionary ecology of plant-insect interactions. The focus of her research is on the role that inter-specific interactions play in creating biodiversity. As an evolutionary ecologist, she uses a broad combination of approaches including experimental ecology, field observations, molecular phylogenetics, and population genetics to understand how species interactions influence speciation and co-evolution. http://biology.syr.edu/segraves/index.html
Melody Sweet Biology mtsweet@syr.edu Ext. 3923
Patricia Tinto Ed-Teaching and Leadership pptinto@syr.edu Ext. 2685
Monica Webb Psychology mswebb@syr.edu Ext. 4513