| Name | Faculty Level/ Title | Primary Dept | Highest Degree(s) | Research/ Interests | Other Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heba Abourahma | Assist. | Chemistry | Ph.D., U of South Florida | Crystal engineering, which deals with designing and synthesizing functional solids using non-covalent interactions; studying pharmaceutical cocrystals, compounds that consist of two or more components at least one of which is an active pharmaceutical ingredients | |
| John Allison | Prof. | Chemistry | Ph.D., U of Delaware | Forensic ehemistry; application of mass spectometry and other analytical techniques to forensic science, including questioned document examination, and the analysis of colorants as used in art | |
| Carlos Alves | Assoc. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., Penn State | Logic; set theory | He is currently on leave. |
| Joseph Baker | Assist. | Chemistry | Ph.D., U of Arizona | Molecular dynamics simulation; computational biochemistry; bacterial infection; building computer models of biomolecular complexes and studying their structure and dynamics using large-scale computer simulations run on high-performance CPU and GPU computing | He is also especially interested in teaching at the interface of the disciplines of physics, chemistry, and biology (for example, soft condensed matter and biophysical chemistry). |
| Margaret (Maggie) Benoit | Assoc. | Physics | Ph.D., Penn State | She is currently on leave (NSF assignment). | |
| Joanne Billmers | Visit. | Chemistry | Ph.D., Drexel U | Green chemistry, biodegradable materials and teacher education | She also has a strong knowledge of pharmaceuticals, having worked in the industry for ten years. |
| Michael Bloodgood | Assist. | Computer Science | Ph.D., University of Delaware | Research interests include: Data Science, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. | |
| Lynn Bradley | Prof. | Chemistry | Ph.D., Duke U | Mechanistic studies of benzamide systems, the study of reactions leading to heterocyclic ring systems, and the development of advanced experiments in organic chemistry | |
| Jim Bricker | Assist. | Biology | Ph.D., State U of New York, Buffalo | Molecular and conservation genetics of the endangered corn snake; Molecular analysis of museum specimens to study historical population genetic structure | |
| Michelle Bunagan | Assist. | Chemistry | Ph.D., U Penn | Use of spectroscopy to attain a mechanistic understanding of protein dynamics, including the folding transition, potential aggregation, and the effect of solvation | |
| Luke Butler | Assoc. | Biology | Ph.D., U of Washington | Causes and consequences of variations in the molt dynamics of birds; Adaptations and life-history trade-offs in the structure of body feathers; Physiological and behavioral responses to stress in vertebrates | |
| Angela Capece | Assist. | Physics | Ph. D., California Institute of Technology | ||
| Benny Chan | Assoc. | Chemistry | Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, Post-Doctoral Colorado State University | Research interests include synthesis and characterization of inorganic materials with potential applications in nanotechnology, thermoelectrics, batteries, and catalysis. | |
| Karen Clark | Assoc. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., Courant Inst New York U | Mathematical modeling of composite materials; climate modeling | |
| Wendy Clement | Assist. | Biology | Ph.D., U of Minnesota | Plant systematics and evolution; pollination biology; biogeography | She is an evolutionary biologist and plant systematist, and her lab studies the evolution of present-day plant biodiversity. |
| Andrew Clifford | Prof. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., State U of New York, Albany | Combinatorial Group Theory (thee intersection of algebra and low-dimensional topology), particularly equations over groups | His recent teaching focus has been on the calculus sequence and various upper level courses in geometry and topology. |
| Ed Conjura | Prof. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., Rutgers U | Financial mathematics | |
| Robert Cunningham | Prof. | Mathematics Statistics | Ed.D., Temple U | Pre-service and in-service mathematics teachers; special interest: topics from the secondary curriculum that pose the greatest challenge for teachers to teach and students to learn; also, technology in support of instruction | His lively interest in teaching and research has prompted him to involve undergraduate students in conducting, presenting, and publishing mathematics education research. |
| Cynthia Curtis-Budka | Prof. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., Yale U | Three-dimensional spaces (such as our universe) and knots; understanding how we can recognize when two spaces or two knots are different from one another | She enjoys supervising undergraduate research projects, most commonly in knot theory. |
| Danielle Dalafave | Prof. | Physics | Ph.D., Florida State University | Biophysics, with emphases on computational design and study of druglike agents that might be useful for treatments of various diseases | Served as an academic advisor for the Biomedical Physics Specialization and the 7 year BS/MD program within the Physics major. |
| Gary Dickinson | Assist. | Biology | Ph.D., Duke U | Physiological ecology of marine invertebrates; Adhesion, biomineralization, and larval behavior of barnacles; Biological responses to ocean acidification and climate change; Marine biofouling and its prevention | |
| Vinayak Elangovan | Assist. | Computer Science | |||
| Curt Elderkin | Assoc. | Biology | Ph.D., U of Louisian at Lafayette | Population and conservation genetics of freshwater mussels; evolutionary ecology of freshwater invertebrates; Quantitative genetics of environmental stresses; Population biology, ecology, and physiology of invasive species | |
| Kathryn (KT) Elliott | Assist. | Biology | Ph.D., University of Michigan | Nature and frequency of gene duplication and amplification; Evolution and adaptation of gene amplification mutants; Regulation of expression of metabolic genes | |
| Jeffery Erickson | Assoc. | Biology | Ph.D. U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Developmental respiratory neurobiology; Genetic determination of vertebrate breathing behavior | |
| Christopher Fazen | Assist. | Chemistry | Ph.D. Syracuse University; Postdoctoral Princeton University | Research interests focus on studying the interaction between antimicrobial peptides and bacterial persister cells. His research utilizes techniques in biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology, and synthetic chemistry | |
| Jana Gevertz | Assoc. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., Princeton University | Dr. Gevertz works in the field of mathematical biology, studying cancer progression using tools from applied and computational mathematics. In particular, Dr. Gevertz aims to synthesize data gathered by biologists and clinicians | Dr. Gevertz teaches introductory calculus courses and upper-level applied mathematics courses, including Linear Programming and Differential Equations. She has also mentored independent study and capstone students in various applied mathematics topics. |
| Danielle Guarracino | Assist. | Chemistry | Ph.D., Yale U | Chemical biology | She has been an Associate Faculty member for the website “Faculty of 1,000″, writing reviews on papers in Chemical Biology. Her teaching interests lie within organic and biochemistry. She is fascinated by the areas in which the two topics overlap. |
| Tom Hagedorn | Prof. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., Harvard U | Number theory and algebra, specifically elliptic curves and representation theory | He has taught courses in cryptography, geometry, the mathematics of voting and choice, and the culture, politics and science of food (as part of the TCNJ’s FSP program). He has also mentored many independent study, independent research, and capstone projects. |
| Nancy Hingston | Prof. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., Harvard U | Differential geometry and topology; loop spaces, symplectic dynamics, closed geodesics, Hamiltonian systems | |
| Donald Hirsh | Assoc. | Chemistry | Ph.D., Yale U | Developing new methods to measure distances in proteins, RNA, and DNA | His professional experience includes service in the U.S. Peace Corps in Swaziland, and work at the Liposome Company and Delsys Pharmaceutical Company. |
| Christopher Holston | Assist. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D. Ohio University | Dr. Holston’s main research interest is in module theory, studying injectivity and projectivity domains. He has contributed to a project studying the concept of poor modules, which are considered opposite to injective and projective modules | r. Holston’s most common courses have been in calculus, ranging from first semester to multivariable, including variations tailored for majors in business and biology. Including his experience as a graduate student, he has also taught courses in algebra. |
| Jinmo Huang | Prof. | Chemistry | Ph.D., U of North Texas | Analytic separations; an analytical method for amino acid analysis using capillary electrophoresis is to be developed and validated | |
| David Allen Hunt | Prof. | Chemistry | Ph.D., Duke U | Development of novel synthetic methodology for the construction of heterocyclic ring systems of biological interest. His research interests also consist of organic synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry, organolithium/metalation chemistry, and drug discovery. | Prior to joining TCNJ, his industrial experience includes stints at Union Carbide’s Agricultural Research Division as a Senior Chemist in the Exploratory Process Research group, Becton Dickinson Research Center as a Senior Scientist in the Immunodiagnostic systems |
| Judit Kardos | Assist. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., University of Missouri, Kansas City | Problems in Real Analysis that provide insight into the highly unintuitive nature of the actually infinit; problems related to Cantor-type sets on the real line, finding Hausdorff dimensions and measures of such sets | She has implemented new technology in introductory courses in Statistics and Linear Algebra. She was in charge of recreating the course in History of mathematics with a broader philosophical perspective to satisfy the World Views of Knowing Liberal learning |
| Deborah Knox | Assoc. | Computer Science | Ph.D., Iowa State University | Digital Libraries; Web Accessibility; Cluster Computing; CS Education | |
| Tracy Kress | Assist. | Biology | Ph.D., Brown U | Utilizing multiple approaches, including genetics, biochemistry, and molecular and cell biology, to study: mechanisms and regulation of RNA processing in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and coordination of RNA processing with chromatin remodeling | |
| Jikai Li | Assoc. | Computer Science | Ph.D., State U of New York, Buffalo | Networking, Optical networks, Scheduling Problem in Network, Network Performance Evaluation, IP over Optical Networks, Optical Burst Switching (OBS), Wireless, Network Security, Internet Protocol for High Speed Network, Quality of Service (QoS), | |
| Cathy Liebars | Assoc. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., Lehigh U | Impact of sustained professional development on the teaching and learning of K-12 teachers and their students; mentoring | She created and teaches a series of courses for students and teachers who wish to obtain the middle school endorsement in mathematics. |
| Don Lovett | Prof. | Biology | Ph.D., University of Louisiana, Lafayette | Osmoregulation in crustaceans; Mechanisms by which estuarine crabs osmoregulate (at the organismal, cellular, and molecular levels); Crustacean nutrition and growth | |
| Nathan Magee | Assoc. | Physics | Ph.D., Penn State | Experimental cloud physics and climate research. Exciting opportunities for undergraduates are available in my lab, so please don’t hesitate to inquire | Directs the Cloud Physics Lab. |
| Mirela Manea-Krichten | Visit. | Chemistry | Ph.D., University of California, Irvine | Analytical radiochemistry using neutron activation analysis of archaeological and geological samples | Her industrial experience has involved method development for water treatment applications. |
| Ying Mao | Assist. | Computer Science | Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Boston | Research interests include: Mobile Cloud Computing, Wireless Networks, Big Data Platforms | |
| Steffen Marcus | Assist. | Mathematics Statistics | |||
| David McGee | Prof. | Physics | Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College | Non-linear optics of block copolymers; photoswitching in functionalized nanotubes; fabrication of polymeric waveguides; dynamic holography | |
| Janet Morrison | Prof. | Biology | Ph.D., State U of New York, Stony Brook | Plant ecology; invasive plants; plant-pathogen interactions; metropolitan forests | She is a plant ecologist teaching courses in botany and ecology and offering research opportunities for undergraduates. Her scientific and conservation interests center on biological interactions in nature that can have important ecological/evolutionary effects |
| Sharon Navard | Assist. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., University of Southwestern Louisiana | Instrument calibration, reliability, variance bounds, quality control | |
| Sudhir Nayak | Assoc. | Biology | Ph.D., U Penn | Using genetic, molecular, biochemical, and informatic techniques to identify genes involved in: Cell fate specification and execution in the Caenorhabditis elegans germ line; in nematodes | He directs the Cloud Physics Lab. |
| Tuan Nguyen | Assist. | Physics | Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley | Interface of physics and biology; specifically, studying the physics of living neuronal networks. | |
| Amanda Norvell | Assoc. | Biology | Ph.D., U Penn | Cell biology and gene expression in fruit flies; Pattern formation during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis; mRNA localization during development; Regulation of nuclear import/export | |
| Romulo Ochoa | Prof. | Physics | Ph.D., Catholic U of America | Development of experiments for physics education; raman and photoluminescence studies of CdTe and CdS nanocrystals and cocrystals; molecular dynamics simulations of crystalline and amorphous materials; raman microprobe studies of CdTe quantum dots | |
| Michael Ochs | Assoc. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., Brandeis U | Intersection of statistical learning and biological systems, with a primary interest in inference on molecular activity in cancer; presently developing computational statistical methods for refining our understanding of cell signaling | Dr. Ochs focuses all courses on developing an ability to choose statistical approaches and techniques for real world problems, as computers can now easily handle even the most arduous statistical calculations but cannot decide what analysis fits the data. |
| Marcia O’Connell | Assoc. | Biology | Ph.D., State U of New York, Stony Brook | Zebrafish developmental biology; Determination and formation of the embryonic axes in vertebrates; Regulations of tissue specific genes in zebrafish embryos; Maternal regulation of polyadenylation | |
| Abby O’Connor | Assist. | Chemistry | Ph.D., U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Development of more energy efficient and sustainable means to produce our supply of fuels and chemicals; finding new homogenous transition metal complexes for different catalytic applications; find new ways to stabilize highly reactive intermediates | During her post-doctoral position, O’Connor also developed a highly successful outreach program that highlights the role of chemists in solving the current energy crisis and plans to bring similar programs to TCNJ. Teaching the next generation of students. |
| Jeff Osborn | Dean | Biology | Ph.D., Ohio State University | Plant evolutionary biology; Evolutionary relationships among seed plants based primarily on the study of pollen ontogeny and pollen structure; Pollination biology, including the evolution of pollination mechanisms and the functional role that pollen plays | He is a an administrator-teacher-scholar. He has led a number of institutional and multi-institutional programs to support the advancement of undergraduates and faculty who are underrepresented in sciences, mathematics, and engineering. |
| Dimitris Papamichall | Assist. | Computer Science | Ph.D., Stony Brook University | Applied algorithms; data structures; computational biology | His research projects include: algorithms for synthetic gene library design, and advancing computational phylogenetic stemmatics |
| Aigli Papantonopoulou | Prof. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley | Classification problems in Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, specifically on algebraic curves and surfaces over the complex numbers | Her textbook Algebra: Pure and Applied has been published by Prentice Hall. |
| Keith Pecor | Assist. | Biology | Ph.D., U of Michigan | Behavioral and evolutionary ecology; crayfish biology; exotic species biology | |
| Nina Peel | Assist. | Biology | Ph.D.., U of Cambridge | Cell biology and genetics; Using C. elegans as a model organism; How centrosome duplication is controlled; The functions of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) in early development; How microtubule dynamics are regulated by post-translational modifications | |
| Monisha Pulimood | Assoc. | Computer Science | Ph.D., Tulane U | Web-based information management; Social Computational Systems; CS Education | Her research projects include: (1) Collaborative infrastructure to support the NSF-funded TUES grant. This project will entail development of web and mobile applications, social computing integration, and hosting on the Amazon AWS EC2 cloud instance. (2) |
| Dave Reimer | Assoc. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., Rutgers U | Combinatorics, graph theory | |
| Howard Reinert | Prof. | Biology | Ph.D., Lehigh U | Vertebrate ecology and conservation; Ecology, behavior and physiology of reptiles and amphibians; Molecular genetic structure of snake populations and gene flow; Habitat selection, predator/prey interactions and foraging behavior; Vertebrate conservation | |
| Robert Richard | Assist. | Physics | M.S., Lehigh U | ||
| Alan Richards | Assist. | Physics | Ph.D., Rutgers U | Physics education research, specifically studying how students use their prior knowledge to build understanding of new physics topics | Uses modern, research-validated teaching methods to build an engaging classroom environment that focuses on active-learning techniques. |
| Jeremy Russell | Visit. | Mathematics Statistics | |||
| Andrea Salgian | Assoc. | Computer Science | Ph.D., University of Rochester | Computer vision and digital image processing; object recognition; face recognition and biometrics; artificial intelligence; human-computer interfaces | She is widely published and has presented at numerous conferences and workshops (http://www.tcnj.edu/~salgian/index_files/Page510.html). |
| Stephanie Sen | Prof. | Chemistry | Ph.D., Stony Brook University | Determine the structure and function proteins that are involved in construction and regulation of isoprenoids, with particular emphasis on insect and plant metabolism | |
| Dennis Shevlin | Assoc. | Biology | Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley | Population biology of fungi; Life cycles and population biology of plant parasitic fungi; Antioxidant production by marine algae | |
| Rachel Snider | Assist. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., University of Michigan | Dr. Snider’s research focuses on mathematics teacher knowledge and teacher education. In particular, she considers the knowledge and reasoning entailed in carrying out particular teaching practices, such as selecting examples and giving explanations. | Drawing on her own experience as a secondary mathematics teacher, Dr. Snider teaches content and methods courses for elementary and secondary pre-service teachers. She also has experience supervising student teachers and teaching in informal settings. |
| Jia Tao | Assist. | Computer Science | Ph.D. – Computer Science – Iowa State University | Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Modal Logic | |
| Leeann Thornton | Assoc. | Biology | Ph.D. – Washington University in St. Louis | Cytochrome P450 regulation of plant development, Plant steroid hormone inactivation, Relationship between structure and function in metabolic proteins, Molecular genetics of multi-gene protein families | |
| Anthony Uzwiak | Assist. | Biology | Not engaged in research at TCNJ | ||
| Suriz Van der Sandt Wang | Assoc. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., Potchefstroom University (South Africa) | Pre-service | She regularly visits schools to observe senior mathematics education majors during their student teaching. |
| Chamont Wang | Prof. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D., Michigan State U | Data Mining, Predictive Modeling, Detection of Misused Statistics, Dynamic Data Visualization, Chaos and Dynamical Systems | |
| Wad Thulsi Wickramasinghe | Prof. | Physics | Ph.D., U Penn | Cosmology; observational astronomy; mathematics; archeoastronomy; astrobiology | |
| Paul Wiita | Prof. | Physics | Ph.D., Princeton U | Extragalactic astronomy and astrophysics and in experimental and computational fluid dynamics | |
| Matthew Wund | Assoc. | Biology | Ph.D., U of Michigan | Evolutionary ecology; the interplay between individual plasticity and evolutionary processes; evolution of animal behavior; evolution of adaptive radiations | He is broadly interested in how populations respond to novel environments, both from the perspective of individuals expressing altered morphology and behavior (phenotypic plasticity), as well as populations evolving over successive generations. |
| David Wynne | Assist. | Biology | Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley | Mechanisms of chromosomal movement during meiosis and mitosis | |
| Sejong Yoon | Assist. | Computer Science | Ph.D., Rutgers University | Research interests include: Statistical Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Multimedia & Informatics | |
| Qifu Zheng | Assoc. | Mathematics Statistics | Ph.D. University of Vermont | Group Representations, Integral Transformations, Multivariate Statistics | |
| Kalani Hettiarachchilage | Assist. | Physics | |||
| Tamika Royal-Thomas | Assist | Mathematics & Statistics | Ph.D., University of Delaware | biostatistics, specifically looking at longitudinal data analysis which involves looking at data over time and how the trend in these data predict health outcomes with the aid of creating novel and better methodology for these data. Her research examines early life predictors of cardiovascular disease and takes into consideration other factors over time that predicts this disease. Her research interests also include factor analysis, principal component analysis, survival analysis and meta-analysis. | |
| Melkamu Woldemariam | Assist. | Biology | Ph.D. – Friedrich-Schiller University and Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany | Regulatory mechanisms of plant defense responses |