Mike Bumbulis
Dr. Michael Bumbulis is an Associate Professor of Biology at Baldwin-Wallace College. He received his Ph.D in Genetics from Case Western Reserve University and his M.S. degree in Zoology from The Ohio State University. He currently teaches Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Introduction to Biotechnology at Baldwin-Wallace.
For the last ten years, he has also taught a summer Biotechnology Camp for high school students at Baldwin-Wallace as part of Ohio’s Summer Honors Institute.
In the “So you want to work in Biotechnology?” summer academic institute, students will not only learn about DNA and the ways scientists engineer it, but they will also acquire extensive hands-on experience with the techniques used by lab scientists, by performing experiments that include the isolation of DNA from various sources, the analysis of DNA with electrophoresis, transforming bacterial so that they glow in the dark, and performing genetic fingerprints.
Pierre David
Dr. Pierre David is a Professor of Business Administration, as well as the Academic Director of the Business Undergraduate Programs at Baldwin-Wallace College. He received his PhD from Kent State University, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MBA from the EDHEC Business School in France. All of his degrees are in marketing with a secondary area of operations management.
He teaches courses in management science, marketing and international marketing at the undergraduate level, as well as in international market research and international logistics in the MBA in International Management program. He is the author of the leading textbook in international logistics, which will be released in its third edition in June 2010.
He has directed and coordinated the Summer Honors Institutes in International Business and Entrepreneurship for the past fifteen years. He is the Director of the 2010 Baldwin-Wallace Summer Academic Institutes.
In the “So you want to be an Entrepreneur?” summer academic institute, Pierre will help students discover the many aspects of entrepreneurship, exposing the students to many of the ways they can use their enthusiasm and energy to create new business ventures. He will be assisted by several other Business Administration professors, and will coordinate several site visits.
In the “So you want to work in International Business?” summer academic institute, Pierre will use his extensive international teaching experience to give students an exposure to the many aspects of international business. In this camp as well, he will be assisted by several other Business Administration professors, and will coordinate several site visits.
Dan Hoyt
Dr. Daniel A. Hoyt is a Professor of English at Baldwin-Wallace College. He teaches creative writing and other English classes, on subjects ranging from the work of Charles Dickens to the literature of Rock and Roll. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and his bachelor’s degree (in journalism) and his M.A. (in English) from the University of Missouri. Dan worked as a journalist at newspapers in Missouri, Wisconsin, and New York, and he has also taught at the University of Missouri, at the University of Sibiu in Sibiu, Romania, and in the Douglas County Jail in Lawrence, Kansas.
Dan’s collection of short stories, Then We Saw the Flames, won the 2008 Juniper Prize for Fiction and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2009. His creative work has also appeared in The Kenyon Review, Indiana Review, Quarterly West, Meridian, and other literary magazines. In 2009, he received the Bechberger Award for Human Development from Baldwin-Wallace College and a 2009 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. In the 1990s.
In the “So, you want to be a Writer?” summer academic institute, Dan will use his extensive writing experience to convey what it means to be a writer, and help students experiment with short stories, essays, news articles, poems and even blog entries.
Ed Meyer
Dr. Edwin F Meyer is a Professor of physics at Baldwin Wallace College. Dr Meyer received his PhD in Physics from Case Western Reserve University in 1988. Immediately thereafter he started to work as a research scientist for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). While at ICI he became the director of the thermal analysis laboratory and was a key trouble-shooter for problems in manufacturing and process control. He wrote the chapter on the Thermal Analysis of Polymers in the Encyclopedia of Polymer Science. Ed also became a recruiter for other problem-solving scientists and interviewed hundreds of candidates for technical jobs throughout ICI. Although many of the candidates had advanced degrees, he was disappointed with their ability to think and solve problems. “Almost universally, the candidates wanted to impress me with what they knew,” Ed says, “I don’t care what they know. I want to know what they can figure out.” To directly address the lack of problem-solving training in formal education, Ed left ICI to become a professor of Physics at Baldwin-Wallace in 2000.
Ed developed a course specifically for problem-solving and it is now one of the most popular courses on campus.
In the “So, you want to be an Engineer?” summer academic institute, Ed will use many of the modules developed for the problem-solving course and he will use many of the real-world problems he encountered while working in industry as examples.
Jeff Pacini
Professor Pacini is an Assistant Professor of Sport Management at Baldwin-Wallace College and specializes in sport marketing, leadership in sport, a well as sport management and media relations. Prior to joining Baldwin-Wallace College in 2009, Professor Pacini worked for the Cleveland Cavaliers as Marketing Manager and was responsible for overseeing the production of television spots, radio spots, LED creative, in-game promotions, print collateral, and online content. His background in professional basketball started at the NBA League Office where he worked in the Global Marketing Partnerships division and was responsible for account activation and management for league partners. Professor Pacini received both his Master of Business Administration and Master of Sport Administration from Ohio University in 2005 after having graduated from The College of Wooster in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies. Professor Pacini started his career in sports working for International Management Group (IMG), having served in a variety of roles in the Motorsports division.
In the “So you want to work in Sports Management?” summer academic institute, Jeff will use his extensive professional experience to expose students to the many aspects of sports management, in professional sports, collegiate athletics and non-profit organizations.
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