Faculty

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Research Description

Nathaniel Chapman,
Associate Professor

     Department:
     Behavioral Sciences

     Office:  
     Witherspoon 350

     Phone:
     (479) 356-2027

     E-Mail:
     nchapman1@atu.edu

• Sociology of culture
• Consumption and popular culture, popular music, scenes and subcultures
• Authenticity

Qualitative methods and grounded theory approaches to understanding culture and consumption. My recent publications have been centered around craft beer and the ways in which gender and race intersect in consumption spaces.

Justin Moss,
Associate Professor

     College:
     Arts & Humanities

     Department:
     Behavioral Sciences

     Office:  
     Witherspoon 351

     Phone:
     (479) 356-2056

     E-Mail:
     jmoss12@atu.edu

• Evolutionary psychology
• Motivated social cognition
• Embodied cognition
• Decision making
• Biased sex ratios
• Social metaphors
• Relationship preferences and strategies
• Reproductive timing
• Morality

My research program seeks to identify how fundamental social motivations (e.g., finding a romantic partner) interact with proximate external pressures (e.g., degree of competition) to influence individuals' strategies to find and maintain close relationships. My research is theoretically informed by the intersection of evolutionary psychology, embodiment, and social cognition. My laboratory and online investigations use rigorous cross-disciplinary experimental methods to test predictions about individuals' social motivations and relationship strategies.

Rodney Roosevelt,
Assistant Professor

     College: 
     Arts & Humanities

     Department:
     Behavioral Sciences

     Office:  
     Tomlinson 126B

     Phone:
     (479) 356-2006

     E-Mail:
     rroosevelt@atu.edu

• Behavioral neuroscience
• Salivary assay of cortisol, testosterone, alpha amylase
• Vagus nerve stimulation
• Risk-taking behavior
• Learning and memory
• Attention

Currently we are investigating the effects of social exclusion, genes and social factors impacting risk-taking, the effect of arousal on attention, learning, and memory.

Alexis Johnson,
Associate Professor

     College: 
     Arts & Humanities

     Department:
     Communication & Media Studies

     Office:  
     Energy Center 104

     Phone:
     (479) 964-0891

     E-Mail:
     ajohnson93@atu.edu

• Health Communication
• Mediated Communication
• Trauma/difficulty
• End-of-Life
• Chronic illness
• Mental illness
• Terminal illness
• Communication in families

My research centers on how families and practitioners communicate with and about difficult and traumatic experiences. Specifically, I focus on uncovering better methods of providing social support, facilitating more effective communication, and consider the impact of communicative messages on our physical and mental health in difficult situations surrounding mental health, chronic illness, terminal illness, and end of life conversations. I also focus on marginalized groups in society and ways that we can create a more open dialogue surrounding these issues.

Virginia (Gini) Jones,
Associate Professor

     College:
     Arts & Humanities

     Department:
     Communication & Media Studies

     Office:  
     Energy Center 101-A

     Phone:
     (479) 968-0635

     E-Mail:
     vjones7@atu.edu

• Historical rhetoric (First Wave Feminism in particular)
• Organizational rhetoric (Crisis Rhetoric in particular)
• Kenneth Burke
• Soul (as a dimension of life) and rhetoric

I use a variety of rhetorical approaches (narrative, myth, apologia, Burkean theory) to shed light on why some messages create shared meaning with an audience while other messages only serve to confuse or even alienate audiences.

David Blanks,
Professor (Retired)

     College:
     Arts & Humanities     

     Department:
     History & Political Science

     Office:  
     Witherspoon 255

     Phone:
     (479) 968-0265

     E-Mail:
     dblanks@atu.edu

• Theory of Big History
• European Intellectual History
• Medieval and Early Modern
  European Social History

Theory of Big History. European Intellectual History. Medieval and Early Modern European Social History

Michael Rogers,
Professor

     College: 
     Arts & Humanities

     Department:
     History & Political Science

     Office:  
     Witherspoon 257

     Phone:
     (479) 968-0447

     E-Mail:
     mrogers6@atu.edu

• Civic education
• Political theory
• History of Western political thought

Studying the effects of college education on civic knowledge and engagement

Masanori Kuroki,
Professor

     College:
     Business

     Department:
     Accounting &
     Economics

     Office: 
     Rothwell 444

    Phone:
     (479) 968-0233

     E-Mail:
     mkuroki@atu.edu

• Quantative Social Science

Mohamed Ibrahim,
Professor, Director of the Master of Education in Instructional Design and Technology

     College: 
    College of Education and Health

     Department:
     Curriculum & Instruction

     Office:  
     Crabaugh 308C

     Phone:
     (479) 964-0583 EXT.

     2452

     E-Mail:
     mibrahim1@atu.edu

• Online Learning Environments
• Instructional Design & Learning Theory
• Multimedia Learning & Cognition
• Digital & Video-based Instruction
• Student Metacognition & Self-efficacy
• Flipped Teaching Strategies

Matthew Young,
Associate Professor

     College:
    Science, Technology, Engineering, and             Mathematics

     Department:
    Engineering & Computing Sciences

     Office: 
     Corley 260

     Phone:
     (479) 968-0654

     E-Mail:
     myoung@atu.edu

• High Voltage
• Energy
• Bioelectrical and Electrochemical
• Engineering Education

I am currently transitioning from previous research fields, and am actively interested in high voltage, energy, bioelectrical, electrochemical, electromagnetic, and quantum engineering.  I am open to any kind of research involving electrical engineering, or closely related scientific fields.

Seyed Ehsan Hosseini,
Associate Professor

     College: 
     Engineering & Applied Sciences

     Department:
     Mechanical Engineering

     Office:  
     Corley 202

     Phone:
     (479) 964-0877

     E-Mail:
     shosseini@atu.edu

• Hydrogen Production and Utilization
• Renewable Energy
• Combustion
• Alternative Fuels
• Heat Transfer

John Jackson,
Dean

     College:
     Science, Technology, Engineering, and             Mathmatics

     Department:
     N/A

     Office: 
     Corley 112

     Phone:
     (479) 964-0548

     E-Mail:
     jjackson@atu.edu

• Floodplain river ecology
• Fish stocking evaluations
• Evaluation of fish sampling protocols
• Sauger habitat use and movement
• Fisheries management

I have recently been working on two research projects with graduate and undergraduate students conducting habitat surveys and conditional occupancy assessment for Rocky Shiner in Southwest Arkansas. In general, my research interests focus on projects that answer fisheries management questions while training fisheries professionals for state and federal agency employment.

Tom Nupp,
Professor

     College:
     Science, Technology, Engineering, and             Mathmatics

     Department:
     Biological Sciences

     Office: 
     McEver 205

     Phone:
     (479) 968-0313

     E-Mail:
     tnupp@atu.edu

• Management of threatened and endangered species
• Spatial analysis of wildlife populations with GIS
• Small mammal population/community ecology
• Mammalogy
• GIS

Most of my recent research has involved developing management alternatives for the endangered Interior Least Tern that nests on the Arkansas River and a few building rooftops. I am also examining potential interactions between medium-sized predators and the endangered American burying beetle for available prey resources. I have a strong background in GIS and I would enjoy participating in a variety of research projects that incorporate a spatial component.

Bruce Tedford,
Professor

     College:
     Science, Technology, Engineering, and             Mathmatics

     Department:
     Biological Sciences

     Office: 
     McEver 116

     Phone:
     (479) 968-0362

     E-Mail:
     btedford@atu.edu

• Circadian rhythm interactions with physiology (especially lipogenesis)
• Hormonal influences upon lipogenesis
• Avian olfaction
• Electrophysiology (especially BAERs, VEPs, & electroretinograms) in animals
• Correlation between mothers' milk fat concentration and lingual/gastric lipase concentrations
• Controlling mechanisms of torpor in birds
• Possible cooling effects of abdominal air sacs on avian testis
• Timed disturbance effects upon piscine growth rates

Determining photoperiodic and hormone rhythm interactions which influence lipogenesis; Identification of avian hormone which most strongly influence avian lipogenesis (hepatic); Releasing odorants known to offgas from carcasses to determine which are the most powerful attractants to Turkey Vultures; Record and establish "normal" BAEPs, VEPs, & ERGs, to be used as clinical references; Measure total fat concentrations in mothers milk and measure salivary lipase levels in suckling mammals to see if a correlation can be established; Determine the feasibility of inducing a lowered body temperature in hummingbirds, with Equithesin (as has been demonstrated in some hibernating species of mammals); Implantation of recording/transmitting thermistors in abdominal air sac and testis to determine cooling effect (if any) of air sac upon internal avian testis; Induce a daily disturbance (air bubbling) in a trout run (six different times of day) to determine effects (if any) upon average growth rates.

Melissa Darnell,
Associate Professor

     College:
     Education & Health

     Department:
     Nursing

     Office: 
     Dean 224G

     Phone:
     (479) 964-0583, EXT 4655

     E-Mail:
     mdarnell@atu.edu

• Women's health
• Student success
• Simulation

How to better use simulation for student success in a health-care setting

Lisa Harless,
Professor

     College:
     Education & Health

     Department:
     Nursing

     Office: 
     Dean 126c

     Phone:
     (479) 964-0583 EXT 4660

     E-Mail:
     lharless@atu.edu

• Teaching online, specifically nursing

What are the challenges to teaching a practice profession online and faculty perceptions of online teaching?

Mariusz Gajewski,
Professor

     College:
     Science, Technology, Engineering, and             Mathmatics

     Department:
     Mathmatical & Physical Sciences

     Office: 
     McEver 16-A

     Phone:
     (479) 880-4000

     E-Mail:
     mgajewski@atu.edu

• Medicinal chemistry
• Drug design
• Small molecule inhibitors
• Neuroscience
• Technology
• Organic photocatalysts applicable in water decontamination

Development of molecular probes and potential therapeutic agents against neuroinflammation and central nervous system cancer.

Development of technologies applicable in water decontamination.

Newt Hilliard,
Professor

    College:
     Science, Technology, Engineering, and             Mathmatics

     Department:
     Mathmatical & Physical Sciences

     Office: 
     McEver 24

     Phone:
     (479) 968-0363

     E-Mail:
     nhilliard@atu.edu

• Metabolic pathways in plants and microbes(not so much in birds, mammals, reptiles, etc.)
• Enzyme based catalysis 
• Enzyme kinetics (both steadystate and pre-steadystate) 
• Redox and spectroscopy of metallo-proteins with an emphasis on hemo-proteins and iron-sulfur proteins,

Currently, my lab works on investigations into the energy conservation and metabolic pathways of pathogenic microbes. We use a combination of biotechnology techniques to dissect the role of individual biomolecules in discrete portions of the overall metabolism of the cells. The techniques range from the cloning, expression and characterization of individual proteins/enzymes to 'knockouts' to eliminate individual steps in pathways.