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Accounting |
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Art |
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Harold Cole
Professor of Art History |
The emergence of women in modern art; thirteenth and fourteenth century French sculpture; early nineteenth century American architecture; the classical masters; Reims Cathedral; iconography of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling |
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David Williamson
Professor of Art |
Arts and crafts (marketing); ceramics; visual arts |
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Astronomy |
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Gerardus D. Bouw
Professor of Math |
Astronomy |
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Athletics
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Biology
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Business |
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Phil Bessler
Herzog Chair in Free Enterprise |
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Consumer Issues |
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Pierre David
Associate Professor of Business |
Consumer behavior; international marketing; methods of entry; international logistics for Europe |
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Veronica Kalich
Lecturer in Economics |
Consumer economic behavior |
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Willard B. Lutz
Professor of Business |
Consumerism in the 90’s (movement and action); marketing |
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Economics |
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Robert Ebert
Buckhorn Professor of Economics |
International economic issues; globalization of the auto industry; history of the motor vehicle industry |
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Craig Heinicke
Associate Professor of Economics |
Government economic policy (interest rates, taxation); economic growth; transportation, agriculture economics |
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Veronica Kalich
Lecturer of Economics |
Economy; inflation; employment statistics; interest rates; monetary policy; gross domestic product (GDP); business cycles; Federal Reserve system |
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Dennis Miller
Associate Professor of Economics
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Economics of the Middle East; natural resource economics; environmental economics; Soviet/U.S. trade; Soviet agriculture |
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Sandra Peart
Associate Professor of Economics |
Strategic behavior in the economy; Canadian economy and society |
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Thomas A. Ross
Associate Professor of Economics |
Statistical Process Control (SPC); quality control in manufacturing/production and high-technology manufacturing; manufacturing information systems; statistical problem solving |
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Lewis Sage
Associate Professor of Economics |
Labor economics; economic problems of dual income households |
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Phil Bessler
Herzog Chair in Free Enterprise |
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Finance |
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Ronald Ehresman
Professor of Business |
Investments |
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Industry |
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Robert Ebert
Buckhorn Professor of Economics |
Healthcare industry; piano and organ industry; auto industry |
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Thomas A. Ross
Associate Professor of Economics |
Quality control in manufacturing/production and high-technology manufacturing |
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International Business |
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Pierre David
Assistant Professor of Business |
International trade; international marketing, international logistics |
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Robert Ebert
Buckhorn Professor of Economics |
International economics |
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Earl Peck
Professor of Business |
Foreign exchange market |
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Management |
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David Krueger
Professor of Business |
Managerial and corporate ethics |
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Peter Rea
Chair of Business Administration |
Managerial and corporate ethics |
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Glenn Blair
Associate Professor of Business |
Labor relations; human resource management |
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Willard Lutz
Professor of Business |
Group and individual motivation |
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Marketing |
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Pierre David
Associate Professor of Business |
Marketing; international marketing; marketing research; impact of advertising on consumers |
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Willard B. Lutz
Professor of Business |
Motivating the salesperson; measuring advertising effectiveness |
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| Middle East |
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Robert Drake
Emeritus Professor of
Political Science |
Middle East politics and policy
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Dennis Miller
Associate Professor of Economics |
Middle East; also economics of the Middle East
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Phil Bessler
Herzog Chair in Free Enterprise |
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Other Business Topics |
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Glenn Blair
Associate Professor of Business |
Career planning; the importance of liberal arts in business success; transition from business to academia; human resource management |
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Michael Felber
Associate Professor of Business |
Tax Reform Act of 1986 |
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Veronica Kalich
Lecturer in Economics |
Dissecting employment statistics; regional demographics; income spending habits and expectations; money market behavior; Federal Reserve policy |
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Richard A. Little
Professor of Math and |
Computers in business |
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Peter Rea
Chair, Business Division |
Hot careers; employment-figures and outlook; career planning; changing careers; how to interview; strategic planning |
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Thomas Ross
Associate Professor of Economics
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Statistical process control (SPC); statistical problem solving |
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Phil Bessler
Herzog Chair in Free Enterprise |
Small business management |
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Career Development |
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Glenn Blair
Associate Professor of Business |
Career planning; transition from business to academia |
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Peter Rea
Chair, Business Division |
Career planning; changing careers; hot careers; interviewing |
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Lisa Green
Associate Professor of Psychology |
Psychology – specifically child and adolescent, clinical/abnormal; divorce issues; abuse issues; developmental issues |
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College Issues |
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Ralph Carapellotti
Director of College Union and Conference Coordinator |
Conference group utilization of a college campus; activities for college students |
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George Rolleston
Director of Financial Aid |
Financial aid for students |
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Communications |
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Patrick Scanlan
Director of Ritter Library |
Information society |
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Georgia Swanson
Emeritus Professor of Speech, Communications and Theatre |
Gender and communication; non-verbal communication |
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Computers |
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(Also see Education and Business) |
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Patrick Scanlan
Director of Ritter Library |
Computerizing a library |
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Richard A. Little
Professor of Math and Computer Science |
Computer education; computers in business |
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Thomas A. Ross
Associate Professor of Economics |
Microcomputer Local Area Networks (LANS); microcomputer applications |
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Development and Fundraising |
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Richard Fletcher
Vice-President of Advancement |
Development/advancement programs for independent colleges; writing successful proposals; trends in philanthropy |
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Thomas Konkoly
Director of Planned Giving |
Planned giving; estate planning |
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Education |
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Obie Bender
Executive Assistant to the President |
Testing minority access to education; working with aggressive youth in education |
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Clayton Dusek
Associate Professor of Education |
Public education issues with particular expertise in school law and finance |
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Stephen Hollender
Associate Professor of German |
Foreign language in secondary education; foreign language teaching methodologies |
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Richard A. Little
Professor of Math and Computer Science |
Mathematics in the schools; computer education |
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Michael Melampy
Professor of Biology |
Evolution and education |
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English |
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Anna Cole
Lecturer in English |
The writing process; teaching English as a second language |
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Susan Oldrieve
Professor of English |
Elizabethan literature; Medieval literature; Christian themes in literature; Shakespeare; Spenser; Sidney; Marlowe; Chaucer; Donne |
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Michael Dolzani
Associate Professor of English |
Jungian psychology in relation to literature; science fiction; comic books; intersection between liberal religion and literature |
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Terry Martin
Professor of English |
Fiction (American Literature); great books |
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Environmental Issues |
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Michael Melampy
Professor of Biology |
Inter-disciplinary approaches to environmental problems; tropical deforestation; the status of the American basin |
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Fetal Learning
G. Andrew Mickley
Head, Neuroscience Program and Professor, Psychology
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Fetal Learning |
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Health and Fitness |
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Robert I. Fisher
Professor of HPE |
Health promotion and disease prevention; hazards and prevention of communicable and chronic diseases; stress management; suicide prevention; health risks of environmental pollution |
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Tim Miller
Director of Recreational Services |
Recreation and Leisure education; outdoor education; programming and organizing outdoor recreational activities; rock climbing; camping; weight training and fitness; racquetball |
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Carol Morton
Associate Professor of HPE |
Camping – worldwide experiences; leisure/recreation opportunities |
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Amy Jo Sutterluety
Associate Professor of HPE |
Health and fitness related topics; women’s health issues |
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William Taraschke
Associate Professor of HPE |
Cross country, track and field; delayed onset muscle soreness; aerobic & anaerobic training; plyometrics |
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History |
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Louis Barone
Professor of History |
Vietnam War |
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Dennis Miller
Associate Professor of Economics |
OPEC; Soviet interest in the Middle East; U.S./Soviet trade and the implications for peace |
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Edgar B. Moore
Professor of History |
South Africa; African problems; the places of Martin Luther’s life and works; genealogical research methods; history of women’s liberation |
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International Topics |
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Anna Cole
Lecturer in English |
Intercultural communications |
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Pierre David
Associate Professor of Business |
France |
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Dennis Miller
Associate Professor of Economics |
Middle East |
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Patrick Scanlan
Director of Ritter Library |
Chinese language, culture and
literature |
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Ted Theodore |
Greek language; travel in Greece |
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Malcolm Watson
Director of International Administration |
International education; bilingualism; English as a second language; English as a world language; international exchange programs; international studies |
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Indira Faulk Gesink
Assistant Professor of History
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Islamic law, origins |
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Mathematics |
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Richard A. Little
Professor of Math and
Computer Science |
Mathematics in the schools |
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Middle East |
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Robert Drake
Emeritus Professor of
Political Science
Dennis Miller
Associate Professor of Economics
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Middle East politics and policy
Economics of the Middle East |
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Music |
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Mary Dobrea
Assistant Professor of Piano |
Piano teaching; Dalcroze eurythmics |
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James Feldman
Professor of Theory |
Concert music-composition, performance, interpretation, structural analysis, history; recordings; opera; current musical scene; music theatre |
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Lawrence Hartzell
Professor of Theory |
Moravian music; Ohio music; Pennsylvania Dutch Music; brain research and music; American music topics; digital electronic music |
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Lalene Kay
Director of Music Therapy Consortium |
Music therapy topics |
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Robert Mayerovitch
Professor of Piano |
Stress and the performing arts; problem solving, time management, development of self-discipline, confidence and conviction through the study of the piano; the relationship between music and math |
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Dwight Oltman
Professor of Conducting |
Orchestral conducting; ballet chamber orchestras in America; Max Rudolf; Nadia Boulanger; Pierre Monteaux |
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Stuart Raleigh
Professor of Music |
Choral music; Bach; music theatre |
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Julian Ross |
Historical violinists; violin teaching; violin literature; chamber music literature; history and appreciation of music; 20th century music; music criticism; compositional techniques of Arnold Schoenberg; historical practice in performance, |
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Mel Unger
Director, Riemenschneider-Bach Institute
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Music of J.S. Bach; Choral literature and performance |
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Paranormal |
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Richard A. Little
Professor of Math and
Computer Science |
Information about the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal |
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Peace Corps |
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Michael Melampy
Professor of Biology
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Peace Corps in Central America; experiences in a developing nation |
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Political Science |
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Charles Burke
Professor of Political Science |
American government & politics; foreign & domestic government policies; presidential elections campaigns; urban & suburban politics |
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Robert Drake
Emeritus Professor of Political Science |
American politics, particularly the Presidency, Congress and national elections; health care policy; Middle East politics and policy |
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Judy Krutky
Professor of Political Science |
Russia – Poland – Yugoslavia; Mexico – NAFTA; arms and weapons topics (nuclear issues); European Union |
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Mark Mattern
Assistant Professor |
Art/music & politics; political economy; political philosophy |
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Lewis Sage
Associate Professor of Economics |
Campaign financing; PACs; how resources are allocated in electoral process; income distribution |
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Psychology |
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Michael Dwyer
Professor of Psychology |
Psychology of cults (who joins them; why they appeal to certain people); anger management |
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Nancy Gussett
Assistant Professor of Psychology |
Industrial psychology; testing; selection |
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Charles Levin
Assistant Professor of Psychology |
Visual perceptions; moon illusion; optical illusions; size/distance perception |
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Andrew Mickley
Head, Neuroscience Program and Professor of Psychology |
Brain research; learning and memory; fetal learning; drub effects on brain; neuroscience education; effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiations |
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Religion |
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Connie Evans
Assistant Professor of History |
The Reformation (Lutheranism/Catholicism)
Ireland/Northern Ireland (peace process) |
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Robert Fowler
Professor of Religion
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Topics on the Bible |
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Science |
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James McCargar
Associate Professor of Chemistry |
Liquid crystals; display technology; chemical spills |
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Michael Melampy
Professor of Biology |
Evolution and education; conservation and environmental issues |
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Daniel Tonn
Associate Professor of Physics
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Material science; ion accelerators; Rutheford back scattering; astronomy |
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Social Science |
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Margaret Brooks-Terry
Professor of Sociology |
First generation college students; factors related to college adjustment |
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Soviet Union |
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Judy Krutky
Professor of Political Science |
U.S.-Soviet relations; Eastern Europe after the break-up |
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Speech |
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Colleen F. Visconti
Assistant Professor of Speech Communication & Theatre |
Speech & language development; speech & language disorders; speech & language therapy/evaluations/diagnostics; pediatric language disorders; relationship of language & cognition |
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Student Issues |
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Carol Templeman
Director of Developmental Services |
Developing a freshman program; student internships |
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Terrorism |
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Sean Gilmore
Assistant Professor of
Speech Communication |
Domestic terrorist groups |
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Theatre |
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Suzanne Strew
Professor of HPED |
Dance in musical theatre |
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Jack Winget
Professor of Speech
Communication and Theatre |
Artist of the theatre; actors, directors, playwrights; theatre in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century; presentation skills |
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Charlotte M. Yetman
Assistant Professor |
Costume design; costume construction; makeup for the stage; theatrical theory |
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Vietnam |
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Louis Barone
Professor of History |
Vietnam |
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Women |
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Harold Cole
Professor of Art History |
The emergence of women in modern art |
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Judy Krutky
Professor of Political Science |
Women in politics |
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