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Faculty
Contact Info
Interests
Research Description
Chapman


NATHANIEL CHAPMAN,
Assistant Professor

 

 
     College: 
     Arts & Humanities

     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.

DuVall Renteria


Kimberly DuVall Renteria,
Instructor

 


     College: 
     Arts & Humanities

     Department:
     Behavioral Sciences

     Office:  
     Tomlinson 126D

     Phone:
     (501) 215-6868

     E-Mail:
    kduvallrenteria@atu.edu

 

  • Cyber
  • Domestic violence legislation
  • Law

 

Beginning research of domestic violence related issues in an effort to improve legislation and law enforcement procedure.

Moss


Justin Moss,
Assistant 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.
Roosevelt


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.
Thibodeaux


Jordan Thibodeaux,
Assistant Professor

 


     College: 

     Arts & Humanities

     Department:
     Behavioral Sciences

     Office:  
     Witherspoon 345

     Phone:
     (337) 288-2512

     E-Mail:
     jthibodeaux@atu.edu

 

  • Self-talk
  • Motivation
  • Youth sport
  • Self-regulated learning in various populations (college adults, athletes)

Investigating multiple projects related to research interests. Projects include 1) study of the relation between self-reported and observed self-talk in young athletes, athlete motivation, and the coach climate, 2) Self-talk/private speech in children and its relation to executive function (self-regulation), and 3) Self-regulated learning and motivation in first generation college adults. More info can be found at my web page:  https://doctortib.com/systemlab/
Johnson


Alexis Johnson,
Assistant Professor

 


     College: 

     Arts & Humanities

     Department:
     Communication &                 Journalism

     Office:  
     Energy Center 132

     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.
Johnson


Virginia (Gini) Jones,
Associate Professor

 


     College: 

     Arts & Humanities

     Department:
     Communication &                 Journalism

     Office:  
     Energy Center 130

     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.

Clair


Erin Clair,
Associate Professor

 


     College: 

     Arts & Humanities

     Department:
     English & World                     Languages

     Office:  
     Witherspoon 151

     Phone:
     (479) 968-0486

     E-Mail:
     eclair@atu.edu

 

  • Literature and culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
  • Filmmaking and culture
  • Pedagogy and the whole student
  • Meditation and mindfulness
  • Yogic philosophy


Dr. Clair's research centers on how to create high-impact courses, pedagogical practices, and assessments that address the whole student to teach them practical skills for their careers and lifelong skills of how to positively impact their communities and have healthy relationships on all levels.  
Blanks


David Blanks,
Professor

 


     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
Rogers


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

Rogers

Loretta Cochran,
Associate Professor

 


     College: 

     Business

     Department:
     Management &                       Marketing

     Office:  
     Rothwell 441

     Phone:
     (479) 964-3250

     E-Mail:
     lcochran@atu.edu 

 

  • Healthcare economics
  • Decision making,
  • Human resources,
  • Student success,
  • Open book management,
  • Retention and graduation rates

Examining decision making models in healthcare spending; factors relevant to student success, student retention, and graduation rates; assessment of learning; factors that impact the efficacy of online learning.
Rogers


Masanori Kuroki,
Associate Professor

 


     College:
     Business

     Department:
     Accounting &
     Economics

     Office: 
     Rothwell 444

    Phone:
    (479) 968-0233

     E-Mail:
     mkuroki@atu.edu

 

  • The economics of family, race, and ethnicity


Recent trends and patterns in out-of-wedlock births among different race/ethnicity groups, especially among interracial couples. I already have data, and would love to collaborate with someone from sociology who can contribute the writing part.

 

Idemudia

Efosa Idemudia,
Associate Professor

 


     College:
     Business

     Department:
     Management &                       Marketing

     Office: 
     Rothwell 447

     Phone:
     (479) 880-4226

     E-Mail:
     eidemudia@atu.edu

 

  • Big data / data mining
  • Business Analysis
  • Network security / research methods
  • Network / communication management
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Quantitative methods
  • International business
  • Information systems



My research interests focus on the design and evaluation of human-computer interfaces/interactions using mathematical models, data mining modeling, web mining, data analysis, business intelligence, OLAP, ETL, and behavioral approaches for the purpose of targeting advertising/marketing, social media, and detecting fraud.  For approximately seven years, I have been conducting research on target marketing. In my research, I have developed mathematical models  to assign and schedule customized ads for target market and detects fraud. Also, I am currently investigating how visual perception theories and visual display principles might influence online banner ad use, web sites, and web pages adoption and design.

Ibrahim


Mohamed Ibrahim,
Associate Professor

 


     College: 

     Education

     Department:
     Curriculum &

     Instruction

     Office:  
     Crabaugh 308C

     Phone:
     (479) 964-0583 EXT.

     2452

     E-Mail:
     mibrahim1@atu.edu

 

  • Online learning platform design based on cognition


Online learning environment and cognition, Online, hybrid and face-to-face teaching strategies, Digital video-based Instruction and cognition, Multimedia learning content and students' self-efficacy, Students' metacognition, Flipped teaching strategy

GordonS

Sarah Gordon,
Associate  Professor

 


     College: 

     Education

     Department:
     Educational

     Leadership

     Office:  CLL

     Phone:
     (479) 964-3236

     E-Mail:
     sgordon6@atu.edu

 

  • Perceptions of evaluation and assessment in P-12 and higher education
  • General education assessment
  • Diversity as a concept and learning outcome



My current research in assessment is primarily centered around innovative ways to collect data (including photo methods), how student affairs work aligns with accreditation standards, and how faculty are rewarded for assessment work in the RPT process. I am also interested in how students learn about diversity issues and if/how they grow in their intercultural sensitivity/competency throughout their college experiences (both in the classroom and co-curricular).

O'Connor


John O'Connor,
Associate Professor

 


     College: 

     Education

     Department:
     Health & Physical               Education

     Office:  
     Hull 103

     Phone:
     (479) 968-0427

     E-Mail:
     joconnor1@atu.edu

 

  • Autism spectrum disorders
  • Children and youth with disabilities
  • Assessment of physical activity
  • Physical activity and disabilities


Promoting physical activity for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder across the lifespan. Promoting disability sport opportunities in local communities for individuals with physical or sensory disabilities. Test validity in adapted physical education to examine the construct validity of the Competency Test for Adapted Physical Education

 O'Connor

Christopher Sheach,
Visiting Instructor

 


     College: 
     Engineering & Applied           Sciences

     Department:
     Emergency

     Management

     Office:  
     Dean 107B

     Phone:
     (479) 356-2092

     E-Mail:
     csheach@atu.edu



 

  • Disaster mitigation



Social approaches to mitigation and community-level resilience. Participatory approaches to increased access and agency for vulnerable segments of society. Application of social media and innovative technology for disaster response and mitigation.

Hoefler

Willy Hoefler,
Professor

 


     College:
     Engineering & Applied           Sciences

     Department:
     Agriculture

     Office: 
     Dean 123

     Phone:
     (479) 968-0251

     E-Mail:
     whoeflerjr@atu.edu

 

  • Anything related to livestock production (reproduction, physiology, nutrition, animal health, microbiology)


Effects of different mineral supplements on animal production. Effects of windrow composting on microbial populations in chicken litter. Effects of probiotics on new born pig performance. Effects of hatchery processing equipment on microbial populations of hatcher baskets.

Rank

Bryan Rank,
Assistant Professor

 


     College:
     Engineering & Applied       Sciences

     Department:
     Agriculture

     Office: 
     Dean 123

     Phone:
     (479) 880-4230

     E-Mail:
     brank@atu.edu

 

  • Experiential learning theory
  • Agricultural education
  • Early field experience
  • Personality and academic achievement
  • Resilience



My primary research focus is the transformation of experience to knowledge through reflection and active experimentation. Most recently, I have used qualitative methods to identify and describe how agricultural teacher education students make meaning of their early field experiences as they progress though their teacher preparation program. My interests also include the influence of personality on academic achievement and the role of resilience in the educational attainment of first generation college students. 

 

Harrell

Martha "Nan" Harrell,
Assistant Professor

 


     College:
     Engineering & Applied       Sciences

     Department:
     Computer &

     Information Sciences

     Office: 
     Corley 239

     Phone:
     (501) 282-0917

     E-Mail:
     mharrell3@atu.edu

 

  • Information security and risk management
  • Health IT
  • Information systems management
  • Project management



Information security behaviors and mitigation of security threats, managing information systems more efficiently and effectively, Implementation of effective and secure health information systems

 

Hamidi

Reza Hamidi,
Assistant Professor

 


     College:
     Engineering & Applied       Sciences

     Department:
     Electrical Engineering

     Office: 
     Corley 256

     Phone:
     (479) 964-0877

     E-Mail:
     rhamidi@atu.edu

 

  • Electrical smart micro-grids
  • Multi-agent control & management systems
  • Non-destructive testing techniques



My research is mainly toward the controlled integration of the emerging technologies in electrical power systems, such as distributed generation units, electric vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles. However, the new technologies are mostly based on renewable energies, which are uncertain in terms of availability. Therefore, they must be continuously monitored and controlled, and predictive measurements should be taken.

 

Khan

Muhammad Safeer Khan,
Associate Professor

 


     College:
     Engineering & Applied       Sciences

     Department:
     Electrical Engineering

     Office: 
     Corley 258

     Phone:
     (479) 498-6046

     E-Mail:
     mkhan3@atu.edu

 

  • Internet of Things (IoT) applications
  • Radio frequency and acoustic signal processing wireless communications for structural health/condition monitoring
  • Engineering education



IoT applications in water quality monitoring and machine condition monitoring. Structural health monitoring using acoustic and radio frequency signals, and wireless sensor networks, Flipped instruction and active learning methods for engineering courses, Longitudinal studies on measuring self-efficacy in engineering modeling and design courses.

 

Young

Matthew Young,
Assistant Professor

 


     College:
     Engineering & Applied           Sciences

     Department:
     Electrical Engineering

     Office: 
     Corley 260

     Phone:
     (479) 518-0938

     E-Mail:
     myoung@atu.edu

 

  • Solar energy (cells, panels, grid interface, etc.)
  • Engineering education


I am currently developing processes to fabricate organic solar cells. I also run active projects in engineering education. I am generally open to any kind of research involving topics in Electrical Engineering or other scientific fields

 

Hosseini


Seyed Ehsan Hosseini,
Assistant Professor

 


     College: 

     Engineering & Applied
     Sciences

     Department:
     Mechanical Engineering

     Office:  
     Corley 222

     Phone:
     (479) 964-0877

     E-Mail:
     shosseini@atu.edu

 

  • Combustion
  • Alternative fuels
  • Renewable energy
  • Heat transfer

Combustion, Alternative fuels, Renewable Energy, Heat Transfer

Jackson

John Jackson,
Interim Dean

 


     College:
     Natural & Health                   Sciences

     Department:
     Biological Sciences

     Office: 
     McEver 34D

     Phone:
     (479) 964-3226

     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 to evaluate stocking success of Black Crappie and White crappie in reservoirs and to investigate seasonal habitat use, movement, and exploitation of Sauger in the Arkansas River. In general, my research interests focus on projects that answer fisheries management questions while training fisheries professionals for state and federal agency employment.

 

Nupp

Tom Nupp,
Professor

 


     College:
     Natural & Health               Sciences

     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.

 

Tedford

Bruce Tedford,
Professor


     College:
     Natural & Health                   Sciences

     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.

 

Darnell

Melissa Darnell,
Associate Professor

 


     College:
     Natural & Health                   Sciences

     Department:
     Nursing

     Office: 
     Dean 224I

     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

Harless

Lisa Harless,
Associate Professor

 


     College:
     Natural & Health               Sciences

     Department:
     Nursing

     Office: 
     Dean 126K

     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.

Gajewski

Mariusz Gajewski,
Associate Professor

 


     College:
     Natural & Health               Sciences

     Department:
     Physical Sciences

     Office: 
     McEver 16-A

     Phone:
     (479) 880-4000

     E-Mail:
     mgajewski@atu.edu

 

  • Drug design
  • Medicinal chemistry
  • Small molecule inhibitors
  • Neuroscience
  • Technology
  • Clean energy


Development of molecular probes and potential therapeutic agents against neuroinflammation and central nervous system cancer. Development of self-sustained water decontamination systems. Development of organic photosensitizers for solar cells.

 

Grosskopf

Jacob Grosskopf,
Assistant Professor

 


     College:
     Natural & Health               Sciences

     Department:
     Physical Sciences

     Office: 
     McEver 5

     Phone:
     (479) 968-0661

     E-Mail:
     jgrosskopf@atu.edu

 

  • Magnetic susceptibility analysis
  • Gamma-ray spectrometry
  • Stratigraphy
  • Sedimentology
  • Paleontology
  • Paleoecology



Using various techniques to detect changes in ancient environments

 

Chapman


Newt Hilliard,
Professor


     College:
     Natural & Health               Sciences

     Department:
     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,
  • Metabolism of inorganic molecules such as nitrogen and sulfur compounds use of biological molecules/species to solve environmental and industrial problems



Currently, my lab works on investigations into the energy conservation and metabolic pathways of sulfur oxidizing microbes from marine environments. 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 individuals steps in pathways.

 

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Georgeanna N. Wright
Assistant Professor

 

     College:  Natural and
     Health Sciences
     Department: Biological
     Sciences
     Office: Dean Hall Suite,
      201

     Phone: (479)968-0443

     E-mail:
     gwright7@atu.edu

 

  • Health Information, Management and Administration.
  • Health Informatics, Behavioral, Data and Social Sciences

 

Current research includes mentoring undergraduate students studying the use of Natural Language Processing as a tool to identify Social Determinants of Health (SDH) found within the Electronic Health Record's unstructured notes and text.