Neuroscience Faculty
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G. Andrew Mickley, Ph.D. Dr. Andrew Mickley is a Professor in the neuroscience and psychology programs at Baldwin-Wallace College. He received his undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and his M.A. and Ph.D degrees in Physiological Psychology from the University of Virginia. He came to B-W in 1993 after a 21-year career in the United States Air Force. Dr. Mickley retired from the Air Force with the rank of Lt. Colonel. While working in the Department of Defense, Dr. Mickley did extensive research in the brain sciences. He has published over 50 journal articles and books describing his studies on learning and memory, brain plasticity, recovery from brain damage, neurotoxicology, neuropharmacology, obesity and neural transplantation. Dr. Mickley's current research is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH). He is a Fellow in the American Psychological Society and the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and a Charter member of the Society for Neuroscience. At B-W, he directs the Faculty-Student Collaborative Scholarship program, and is Chair of the Neuroscience Studies Committee. Dr. Mickley continues to be an active scientist as he directs the activities of students working in the Neuroscience Laboratory located in the Life and Earth Sciences Building. Dr. Mickley teaches Principles of Psychology, Physiological Psychology and several courses in the Neuroscience curriculum. |
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Michael Bumbulis, Ph.D. Dr. Michael Bumbulis received his B.S. from the Ohio State University. After working as a respiratory therapist for a few years at Columbus Children's Hospital, he returned to OSU to earn an M.S. in Zoology, where he biochemically characterized an enzyme found in tapeworms. He then began to work on a Ph.D. in genetics at Case Western Reserve University. During this time, Dr. Bumbulis secured a part-time position at Baldwin-Wallace College teaching genetics. In 1996, he received his Ph.D. from CWRU and began teaching full-time at Baldwin-Wallace. He currently teaches courses in genetics, neuroscience, molecular biology, cell biology, anatomy and physiology, and human biology. He is also interested in researching the interaction between transcription factors and DNA. |
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. Dr. Brian Thomas earned a B.S. from Ball State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Texas Christian University. His primary research program examines how fears are acquired and subsequently eliminated in a rodent model of human fear conditioning. One of the most challenging questions that his team is addressing is why a fear or phobia that has been treated, more often than not, will return. His team has discovered a number of novel techniques for treating fear that appear to resist relapse and he is hopeful that this research will lead to long-lasting and better-understood treatments for the anxiety disorders. Dr. Thomas teaches courses in learning, applications of psychology, principles of psychology, behavior modification, history and systems of psychology, statistics, and evolutionary psychology. He is also the Chair of the Department of Psychology and Faculty Advisor to Psi Chi. |
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