New Faculty for 2003-2004

August 21, 2003

School of Architecture

Jason ChandlerAssistant Professor

Mr. Chandler attended Cornell University where he graduated with a bachelor of architecture. He later attended Harvard University Graduate School of Design and graduated with a master of architecture. He has been in private practice since 1997 and prior to that, he worked with several architects as project designer. Mr. Chandler is a member of the American Institute of Architects and a registered architect in the State of Florida. He has taught as an adjunct professor at FIU since 1998 and as a lecturer at UM School of Architecture. Courses taught include graphic communication, design, method and materials, and lighting.

Janine KingAssociate Professor

Prior to joining FIU, Ms. King was the chair of the Department of Interior Design-College of Design and Planning at the University of Florida, where she worked since 1993. She holds a BA in art history, a BA in fine arts and a master of interior architecture, the latter from the University of Oregon. Ms. King is the chair of the Interior Design Continuing Education Council, as well as a member of an editorial review board and a publication board member of the Journal of Interior Design. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, honors and grants.

Henry E. Lares, Visiting 1st yearAssistant Professor

Mr. Lares graduated from FIU with a BA in history, and a minor in psychology and religious studies. He also took some courses in architectural history and design at FIU and later graduated from Texas A&M with a master of architecture. Mr. Lares’ previous work experience includes working as an architectural draftsman and an AutoCAD operator. He also worked as a design teacher at Texas A&M and a lecturer in Paris, giving on-site lectures at the Place Dauphin, Place Royal and the Place Victoire. Mr. Lares has been an assistant designer with a consulting firm since 1992.

College of Arts & Sciences

Office of the Dean

R. Bruce DunlapDean

Dr. Dunlap graduated from Beloit College with a BS in Chemistry and holds a PhD in Chemistry from Indiana University. Dr. Dunlap was originally hired in

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1971 at USC as the first biochemist in the Department of Chemistry. He went on to collaborate with the new (1974) School of Medicine there, where he still teaches one course a year. During his 31 years at USC, he has published over 150 refereed journal articles and his research has received nearly $5 million in support from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the American Cancer Society. He has received numerous recognitions for his work, including a 1993 R&D 100 Award for Innovations in Science and Technology from Research and Development Magazine.

He has held numerous leadership positions at USC including six years as Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. As Chair, he provided leadership for a department of 26-tenure track faculty, 30 professional staff, 33 research faculty and postdoctoral fellows, 115 graduate students and 160 undergraduate majors. During this period, he hired eight new faculty, collaborated in the design and funding for a new 150,000 square foot Graduate Science Research Center, and moved the department into the facility. He also developed the Department’s first Friends of Chemistry and Biochemistry, which contributed in excess of $2.5 million for the department while he was chair. Throughout his career, Dr. Dunlap has been involved in the development of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research initiatives. Working with an oncologist at the Richland Memorial Hospital, he built a network of cancer researchers that subsequently received laboratory space at the hospital’s new Center for Cancer Treatment and Research. Later, he helped to build the nanoscience center at USC through support from the National Science Foundation. Finally, he has taken leadership for the South Carolina Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network, which promotes biomedical research and its funding in institutions of higher education in South Carolina. He has served as advisor or co-advisor for 44 graduate students who have earned the PhD degree.

An active community fund-raiser, Dr. Dunlap chaired the Education Funds Crusade Committee for the American Cancer Society. For three successive years, his committee increased the funds raised—leading to a Diamond Award from the ACS—indicating outstanding performance. He also chaired the statewide campaign for the American Cancer Society that raised over $2.5 million.

Biology

Michael HeithausAssistant Professor

Prior to joining FIU, Dr. Heithaus was a staff scientist at the Center of Shark Research, Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, FL. He attended the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia where he graduated with a PhD from the Behavioral Ecology Research Group. During 2002, Dr. Heithaus was on loan to National Geographic Television as a research fellow in the remote imaging department. He has over 20 major publications; his most recent currently in press: “Novel insights into the behavior of sea turtles from animal-borne cameras,” Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK. He has been a

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guest lecturer in undergraduate courses such as animal ecology, marine biology, advanced freshwater biology, animal behavior, and marine ecology. In addition, Dr. Heithaus has been the recipient of numerous honors, awards and grants from sources such as the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society Expeditions Council, and the Australian Geographic Society, among others. He is an avid scuba diver who enjoys nature photography and has published photographs in several reference books and magazines.

Leung KimAssistant Professor

Dr. Kim holds a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from Rutgers University. He attended the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, where he graduated with a MS in biochemistry. Dr. Kim’s professional career includes teaching at the Korea Institute of Technology, postdoctoral fellow and later research fellow in the Lab of Cell and Developmental Biology at the National Institute of Health. Dr. Kim’s publications and articles have appeared in Genes and Development, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Cell Biology, Current Opinions in Genetics and Development, as well as a recent article “Receptor-dependent and Tyrosine Phosphate base-Mediated Inhibition in GSK3 Regulates Cell Fat Choice” in Developmental Cell.

Polly K. PhillipsLecturer

Dr. Phillips attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she graduated with a MS in biology and a PhD in physiology. She taught at Miami-Dade Community College courses such as human anatomy and physiology, general biology, energy and the environment, as well as general zoology. Dr. Phillips also worked as associate professor of physiology and director of alumni affairs at the American University of the Caribbean in St. Maarten and was recently adjunct faculty at Barry University. She has numerous publications in professional journals such as the Journal of Thermal Biology, the online journal Science in Africa, and Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, among others. Dr. Phillips has assisted with museum research on taxonomy of the family Cicadidae at over 40 different institutions since 1996. She has also assisted with field studies on environmental adaptation and communication in North American, Costa Rican and South African cicadas.

Maureen WalterInstructor

Maureen Walter has been teaching at FIU since 1999, however she was teaching as a visiting and/or adjunct instructor. She graduated from FIU with a MS in biology. As a teaching assistant, she taught human biology lab, marine biology lab and ecology lab. Ms. Walter is a member of the Biological Sciences Department Library Committee and a member of Biological Sciences

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Department Academic Advising Committee. Ms. Walter has also been involved with FIU’s Freshmen Interest Groups and has advised incoming freshmen and current students on the University curriculum requirements.

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Chemistry

Douglas Heller, Visiting 1st yearAssistant Scholar

Dr. Heller joined FIU as an assistant scholar/scientist to teach organic chemistry and forensic science to undergraduate students. He will also assist the International Forensic Research Institute in business development, public outreach and other strategic initiatives. Dr. Heller graduated from the University of Chicago with an MBA in finance/economics, a MS in organic chemistry and a PhD in organic chemistry. He previously worked with Ivax Corporation managing and planning the set up of a multi million-dollar oncology drug. He also worked with Arch Development, the technology transfer/venture capital affiliate of the University of Chicago and the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratories. While at the University of Chicago, he worked as a teaching assistant/research assistant in the Department of Chemistry.

Watson James LeesAssociate Professor

Dr. Lees graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in chemistry and had previously attended McGill University in Montreal where he obtained his BS in chemistry. His research interests include the rate of protein folding, development of new materials for optical memory and design of improved drugs with multivalent interactions. Most recently, Dr. Lees was assistant professor at Syracuse University, where he taught both graduate and undergraduate courses. Graduate courses included biochemistry, physical organic chemistry I and II; undergraduate courses included analytical biochemistry, organic chemistry and independent study course on polyvalent interactions. He has been the recipient of several research grants, has numerous publications and holds a patent in “meso 2, 5-Dimercapto-N,N,N,N – tetramethyladipamide and its use in reducing disulfide bonds.”

Alexander M. MebelAssistant Professor

Dr. Mebel did his undergraduate studies at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys where he obtained his BSc in physical chemistry. He later attended the Kumakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Science where he graduated with a PhD in physical chemistry. Dr. Mebel worked as an associate research fellow at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences in Taipei, Taiwan. He also worked as a visiting assistant professor in Tamkang University in Tamsui, Taiwan. Dr. Mebel has over 180 publications and articles in scientific journals including the Journal of Chemical Physics, the International Journal for Quantum Chemistry, and the Chemical Physics Letters.

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Computer Science & Information Technology

Peter J. ClarkeAssistant Professor

Dr. Clark graduated with a PhD in computer science from Clemson University. His research interests include software engineering, software testing, software maintenance and programming languages. His professional teaching experience includes working as a teaching assistant at Clemson’s Department of Computer Science; an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Computer Science of the University of the West Indies in Barbados; a teaching assistant at the Department of Computer Science at Binghamton University, and a lecturer at Barbados Community College. Dr. Clark is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society.

Chi ZhangAssistant Professor

Professor Zhang is a PhD candidate in computer science at Northeastern University in Boston. He expects completion during 2003 and his thesis is “Receiver-oriented and measurement-based transmission control for heterogeneous networks”. He has been a research assistant since 2002 at Northeastern’s College of Computer Science. Professor Zhang has a US patent pending on “retrieval of cursive Chinese handwritten annotations based on radical model.” He has taught object-oriented design; advanced operating systems; object oriented database; internetworking: principles, protocols and applications; as well as computer networks: theory, modeling and analysis.

Earth Sciences

Michael SukopAssistant Professor

Dr. Sukop holds a PhD in soils with a minor in civil engineering from the University of Kentucky and a MS in soils from Washington State University. He holds professional registrations as a certified hydrogeologist and certified geologist in California, and as a professional geologist in Kentucky. Dr. Sukop’s interests include groundwater and solute transport modeling from pore to aquifer scales, fluid dynamics in unsaturated porous media, multiphase lattice Boltzmann models, porous media, fractals, multifractals, cellular automata, percolation phenomena, stochastics, geostatistics, and surface chemistry. His professional experience includes working as principal hydrogeologist for numerous projects throughout the western United States, including groundwater aspects of large water resources studies, Superfund sites, municipal and industrial wastewater treatment and disposal systems, industrial facilities, military installations and landfills. Dr. Sukop is a technical expert in groundwater and unsaturated zone hydraulics and modeling,

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groundwater and unsaturated zone chemistry, including contaminant transport modeling and sorption phenomena.Economics

Prasad BidarkotaAssistant Professor

Dr. Bidarkota holds a PhD in economics from Ohio State University. Her primary teaching and research fields include econometrics, macroeconomics and finance. She most recently taught economics at Kansas State University and previously was a lecturer at La Trobe University’s School of Business in Australia. Courses taught include doctoral level econometrics II and time series analysis; undergraduate courses include principles of macroeconomics, intermediate macroeconomics, econometric methods, applied economics, principles of microeconomics, risk management, investment and portfolio management as well as management information systems.

Jonathan B. HillAssistant Professor

Dr. Jonathan Hill holds a PhD in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has been a visiting lecturer and/or professor of economics and econometrics at the University of California-San Diego; San Diego State University; China Agricultural University in Beijing; University of Colorado in Denver, and the University of Colorado in Boulder. Dr. Hill’s teaching experience includes advanced econometrics and forecasting at the masters level and undergraduate courses in public economics as well as introduction to statistics with computer applications. His research interests include time series econometrics, theoretical econometrics, statistics, applied econometrics, business forecasting and public economics.

Mihaela I. Pintea, visiting 1st yearAssistant Professor

Ms. Pintea is currently working on her PhD in Economics at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her areas of interest include economic growth, economies in transition and econometrics. She has worked as an instructor and teaching assistant at the University of Washington, where she taught introductory macroeconomics, introductory microeconomics, and econometrics. Ms. Pintea is fluent in Romanian, English, and French, with a working knowledge of Italian.

English

Heather AndradeAssistant Professor

Dr. Andrade graduated from Rutgers University with a PhD in literatures in English. Most recently at Barry University, her teaching experience includes Caribbean literature, survey of African American literature, Black women

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writers, world literary masterpieces, American literature, literary analysis, introduction to literature and first year composition I and II. Dr. Andrade also taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Rutgers University. Her teaching interests include African American literature, Caribbean literature, postcolonial studies, gender studies and cultural studies.Environmental Studies

Anne HartleyAssistant Professor

Dr. Hartley holds a PhD in botany from Duke University and an MES in geographical information systems from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her research interests include ecosystem dynamics, global change, carbon-nitrogen linkages, plant-microbial interactions, GIS and remote sensing. Dr. Hartley’s professional experience includes working as a postdoctoral scientist in the Biology Department at Indiana University; research associate II at the University of Michigan; postdoctoral scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences Department at Indiana University, and a teaching assistant at Duke University. She has been the recipient of numerous grants, awards and fellowships.

Raymond ScattoneAssistant Professor

Dr. Scattone graduated from the University of Delaware with a PhD in urban affairs and public policy and from Johns Hopkins University with an MA in public policy. Dr. Scattone's research interests are in the environmental, social and political dimensions of sustainable development, including analysis on both practical and theoretical levels. He is particularly interested in what policies and programs that have been offered in the name of sustainable development actually mean to people and the environment. His research has centered on federal, state and local brownfields initiatives in the United States, as well as national and international energy policies and programs. He has examined these areas in accordance with environmental justice and sustainable development concerns. Dr. Scattone is also very interested in looking at the role of the social scientist in contemporary society and the integration of science, technology, the environment and society.

Keqi ZhangAssistant Professor

Dr. Keqi Zhang received his Ph.D. from the Department of Geography, University of Maryland at College Park in December 1998. Since 1999, he has been a Research Assistant Professor at FIU’s International Hurricane Center. Specific research include development of algorithms to automatically identify ground and non-ground points and to extract three-dimensional shapes of building and trees from airborne LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) measurements; development of high resolution storm surge model; development of georeferenced, three-dimensional, visualization and animation platforms for hurricane-induced flooding and wind damage;

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analysis of long-term and storm-induced beach erosion using shoreline position data from LIDAR measurements, field GPS surveys, aerial photographs, and historical maps, as well as examination of long-term trend and interdecadal variations in the number and severity of coastal storms using hourly water level records from tide gauges. Dr. Zhang has authored and co-authored 25 papers in journals, refereed conference proceedings and book chapters. Currently, he is leading a team to map storm surge influenced areas in south Florida using airborne LIDAR, and to develop the high-resolution storm surge model and a 3D visualization and animation system for storm surge flooding. He is a member of FIU’s GIS Advisory Committee and co-director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research.

International Relations

Claire ApodacaAssistant Professor

Dr. Claire Apodaca holds a PhD in political science from Purdue University and most recently has been a lecturer in the Department of International Studies at the University of Miami. Courses taught included globalization and human rights, women’s human rights, global perspectives, research design and methods as well as statistical methods. Previously, Dr. Apodaca had worked as a visiting assistant professor of international relations at FIU where she taught theories of international relations, US foreign policy, international protection of human rights, introduction to international relations and a graduate seminar in research design and methods.

Bongman Seo, Visiting 1st yearInstructor

Mr. Seo is a doctoral candidate with the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota. He previously attended Seoul National University in South Korea, where he obtained both his BA and MA. His NSF-funded dissertation research is on the globalization of Japanese city banks in global syndicated credit markets. His interests include ways in which Korean financial subsidiaries in Los Angeles or Korean American financial firms have affected cross border flows between Korea and the US after the 1997 financial crisis. Most recently, Mr. Seo presented at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in New Orleans – “Who dominates Asian financial markets? Network positions of Japanese city banks in Asian syndicated credits market.”

Modern Languages

Nancy Franco, Visiting 1st yearInstructor

Ms. Franco has been an adjunct lecturer at both FIU and Broward Community College since 1998. She has been teaching different levels of Spanish to

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native and non-native speakers. An FIU alumnus, Ms. Franco graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Spanish and later with an MA. She is a Florida certified teacher. In 2001, Ms. Franco received the Adjunct Faculty Excellence in Teaching award.

María Antonieta GarcíaInstructor

Ms. García graduated from FIU with a BS in French and later attended UM where she graduated with a MA in French. She has all the required courses for a Florida Teacher’s Certificate and is currently working on her DML. Ms. García has been a lecturer in Spanish at UM, an adjunct French/Spanish coordinator at FIU and Miami-Dade Community College, as well as a field coordinator for FIU’s summer program in Angers, France. Courses taught include beginning French language and culture; intermediate and advanced French conversation, French literature, as well as beginning and intermediate Spanish language and culture.

Music

Sam LussierAssistant Professor

Professor Lussier is currently a candidate for a doctorate in education at FIU. He graduated from the University of Miami with a master of music. He is a composer, orchestrator, jazz arranger, trumpet and piano player. Since 1995, Mr. Lussier has worked as adjudicator for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, as well as a Clinician and Adjudicator for Miami-Dade County and Broward County Public Schools. He has also taught jazz, trumpet, music education, music appreciation, fundamentals of music, jazz arranging, jazz rehearsal techniques and evolution of jazz.

Nancy RaoAssistant Professor

Dr. Rao has degrees from National Taiwan Normal University (BA) and the University of Michigan (MM and PhD), where she worked on the music of Schoenberg, Crawford, Babbitt, and Carter. Her article "Partnership of Ruth Crawford and Charles Seeger in Modern Composition" was published in American Music. She has taught at Michigan and Oberlin and regularly delivers papers at music theory conferences. Special interests include 20th-century American music, women composers 1900-1950, and contemporary Chinese composers. She has taught at Rutgers University, the Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Michigan and the National Taipei Teacher’s College. Courses taught include monophony and polyphony, 16th century counterpoint, tonal harmony, orchestration, 20th century music analysis, as

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well as interdisciplinary courses such as gender, genre and musical forms in the works of Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann and Amy Beach. Dr. Rao’s research interests include modern music and American women composers in the 20th century; compositional theory of America in 1920–1950; music of American ultra modernist tradition; music of Chinese composers in the last two decades of the 20th century, and race, ethnicity, gender and historiography of American music.

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Michael Siciliano, Visiting 1st yearAssistant Professor

Professor Siciliano attended the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated with a BM in clarinet performance. He later attended the University of Chicago where he obtained both his MA and PhD in music. Dr. Siciliano has been a music lecturer and/or visiting instructor at the University of Wisconsin, Grand Valley State University, and the University of Chicago. He was also a clarinet instructor at Joan’s Studio for the Performing Arts in Chicago and a private theory instructor. Dr. Siciliano has performed at the Madison Savoyards, with the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, the University of Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Wind Ensemble, the Contemporary Music Ensemble, and the Symphonic Band. While in Chicago, he performed with the Lyric Opera Center, the University of Chicago New Music Ensemble, the Symphony Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra.

Philosophy

Sean Allen-HermansonAssistant Professor

Dr. Allen-Hermanson holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto. His area of specialization includes philosophy of mind and cognitive ethology. He has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards. His teaching experience includes a graduate seminar in philosophy of the mind, philosophy of biology, introduction to philosophy, artificial intelligence, theories of mind, mind and machines, introduction to philosophy, intermediate logic, introductory logic, ethics and logic.

Christopher Mark GrauAssistant Professor

Dr. Grau attended Johns Hopkins University, where he earned his MA and his PhD in philosophy. He specializes in ethics, philosophy of mind and philosophy of action. His areas of competence are philosophy of film, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Wittgenstein, and logic. Dr. Grau has taught at Brooklyn College, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Maryland. Courses taught include introduction to philosophy, philosophy of religion, history of modern philosophy, utopia and history, professional ethics and “the concept of a person,” among others. Dr. Grau has also produced various film-related websites and is the producer and editor of the “Philosophy and The Matrix” section of the official Warner Brothers website for the film The Matrix.

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Physics

Wenzhi LiAssistant Professor

Dr. Li attended Shandong University in China, where he obtained his BS in physics. He later graduated with a MS in condensed matter physics from Beijing Normal University and went on to graduate with a PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics and Center for Condensed Matter Physics. Dr. Li’s research interests include synthesis and characterization of novel nanomaterials including nanowires, carbon nanotubes, nanotubes arrays, nanotubes junctions and nanoparticles. He has over 40 papers published in reviewed scientific journals such as Science, Nature and Applied Physics Letters as well as several patents. Dr. Li’s professional experience includes the Department of Physics at Boston College where he worked as a senior research scientist and the Institute of Physics and Center for Condensed Matter Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.

Political Science

Jamie CarsonAssistant Professor

Dr. Carson graduated from Michigan State University with a PhD in political science. His research and teaching interests include American politics, research methods (econometrics, maximum likelihood estimation, strategic choice and selection models, time series analysis) and formal theory-game theory, social choice theory and game-theoretic applications. At Michigan State, he taught introduction to methods of political analysis, American legislative process, American executive process, political parties and interest groups, campaigns and elections, introduction to American national government, environmental politics and American government and politics.

Alan Melchior, Visiting 1st yearAssociate Professor

Dr. Melchior has held positions as assistant professor of political science at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, the University of Mississippi and Townson University in Maryland. He graduated with a PhD in government and politics from the University of Maryland in College Park and has an MA in political science from Wayne State University. Dr. Melchior’s publications include “A Case for Particularism in Public Administration Theory,” co-authored with Mary Beth Melchior, published in Administration and Society, as well as “Public Entrepreneurism: A New Paradigm for Administration?” published in the Handbook of Organization Theory and Management: The Philosophical Approach.

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Psychology

María Félix-OrtizAssistant ProfessorDr. Félix-Ortiz graduated with a PhD in clinical psychology from UCLA. Her research interests are in etiology and prevention of drug use and abuse, especially among Latino youth, and in the development of client-led support groups as adjuncts to structured addiction treatment. She recently worked as a research consultant in partnership with Behavioral Assessment, Inc, UCLA Psychology and others. She has taught at the University of Southern California courses such as minority mental health, introduction to clinical psychology as well as graduate courses in cognitive behavioral therapy didactic practicum, assessment, and group therapy seminar. Dr. Félix-Ortiz was a Ford Predoctoral Fellow and was awarded the Joseph A. Gengerelli Award for Most Distinguished Dissertation in the UCLA Department of Psychology. She was also the recipient of USC’s Psi Chi Outstanding Teacher Award in 1995 and in 1997. Her publications have appeared in the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Dr. Félix-Ortiz is experienced in administering, interpreting and reporting on several cognitive, personality and neuropsychological screening tests.

Kevin M. O’NeilAssistant Professor

Dr. Kevin O’Neil holds a PhD in psychology-social/personality from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln as well as a JD with high distinction from the same institution. His teaching experience includes a seminar in law and psychology at Barnard College and research design and methods for masters-level students at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His most recent publication explores the effects of attitudes towards the death penalty on capital sentencing verdicts-Psychology, Public Policy and Law. He has also published a guide to running surveys and studies on the worldwide web (available online).

Sociology

Laura OgdenAssistant Professor, Sociology and Environmental Studies

Ms. Ogden is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Florida. Her fields of academic interests include cultural anthropology, specializing in environmental anthropology, political ecology, economic anthropology, and history and theory of ethnography. She is a fellow in the US EPA Science to Achieve Results Environmental Fellowship; co-principal investigator in a project funded through the Critical Ecosystem Studies Initiative – Public Participation in Ecosystem Restoration Planning; and served as a consulting anthropologist to the Governor’s Commission for a Sustainable South Florida from 1997 to 1999. She developed the “Environmental Anthropology” course

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at UF’s Honors College, and developed two courses while a visiting instructor at FIU: “Global Environment and Society” and “The Everglades: Cultural History and Environmental Restoration.”

Statistics

Leonid Bekker, Visiting 1st yearInstructor

Mr. Bekker has been with FIU since 2001 as a part-time instructor but has become a visiting instructor starting with the Fall 2003 semester. He is an FIU graduate, with a MS in statistics. He also attended the Military Academy of Radioelectronics in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he obtained a MS in electrical engineering. Mr. Bekker has a soon to appear publication in Statistics and Probability Letters, “Shape and Crossing Properties of Mean Residual Life Functions,” written with J. Mi.

College of Business Administration

Accounting

Kannan RaghunandanProfessor

Dr. Raghunandan (Raghu) has a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Madras University and an MBA (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta). He worked as an internal auditor with Tube Investments of India Ltd., before obtaining his PhD in business administration from the University of Iowa. Before coming to FIU, he taught at Bentley College, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, and was the Radcliffe Killam Distinguished Professor of Accounting at Texas A&M International University. Dr. Raghu’s teaching interests include accounting and auditing. He is the author of three computer-assisted instructional software packages in the areas of financial and managerial accounting. His research interests have spanned audit opinions, internal auditing, and corporate governance. He has multiple publications in each of the following premier accounting and auditing journals: Journal of Accounting Research; Contemporary Accounting Research; Auditing: a Journal of Practice and Theory; Accounting Horizons, and Issues in Accounting Education. He also has multiple publications in practitioner journals such as Journal of Accountancy, CPA Journal and Internal Auditor. His recent research has been cited in testimony before the U.S. Senate (the post-Enron hearings) and he has served as a consultant to the U.S. General Accounting Office. He is currently serving as Associate Editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. He has served on the Editorial Boards or as ad-hoc reviewer of many other journals including Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, and Issues in Accounting Education.

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Dasaratha RamaProfessor

Dr. Rama obtained her bachelors in electrical and computer engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. She later attended the University of Iowa where she graduated with a PhD in business administration. She is also a certified management accountant. Her teaching experience includes teaching at Bentley College, University of Massachusetts and Texas A&M International University. Courses taught and teaching preferences include accounting information systems, systems and auditing, systems analysis and design, database systems as well as e-commerce and web development. Dr. Rama has written numerous articles in professional journals such as Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory; Accounting Horizons; Issues in Accounting Education, and Technical Communications Quarterly, among others.

Decision Sciences & Information Systems

Kaushik DuttaAssistant professor

Dr. Kaushik Dutta is a PhD candidate in information technology management at Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned a MS in computer science at the Indian Statistical Institute and a BS in electrical engineering at Jadavpur University. He has worked as a software engineer and his research interests include electronic commerce, database systems and data management. His research has been published or is scheduled to appear in refereed journals such as Management Science, IEEE Internet Computing, VLDB Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, among others.

Michael J. PrietulaEminent Scholar / Professor

Dr. Prietula holds a PhD in information systems from the University of Minnesota and was most recently professor of decision and information analysis at the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University, where we was also an adjunct professor of psychology. Dr. Prietula worked as a research scientist at Honeywell’s Systems Research and Development Center, and has taught at Dartmouth College; Carnegie Mellon University; the Fisher School of Accounting at the University of Florida, and was department chair at Johns Hopkins University, where he also held an adjunct appointment in the School of Medicine. He has published in journals such as Organizational Science, Human Factors, Cognitive Science, Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the ORSA Journal on Computing, and the Harvard Business Review. He has co-edited two books: Computational Organization Theory (Erlbaum, 1994) and Simulating Organizations: Computational Models of Institutions and Groups (MIT Press, 1998). Dr. Prietula’s primary research areas are human-computer interaction and computational models of individual and group behaviors. Dr. Prietula has received numerous research grants and has worked on such

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systems as MacMerle (artificial intelligence scheduling), Rheumer (medical expert advisor), Steambal (an engineering tutorial and simulation), Plural-Soar (distributed artificial intelligence), jEstor (software effort estimation), and TrustMe (social science simulation). His current projects include CM (book and market simulation based on A Behavioral Theory of the Firm), TrustUs (evolutionary social science simulation), Clifford (research browser), FAHE (a model of expert advice), the ACT Emotion Engine, Affect (simulated emotional agents), and Norm (a norm and group evolution model). Dr. Prietula has also served as a musician, a stage manager and member of the Board of Directors for a theatre company, taught an acting workshop for MBAs and Executives, and is a certified PADI scuba diving instructor.

Finance

Brice DupoyetAssistant Professor

Dr. Dupoyet’s areas of interest include international finance, fixed income securities and derivatives, and investment. He graduated with a PhD in finance and business economics from the University of Washington in Seattle. He has taught finance courses such as options and futures, financial theory and analysis, corporate finance, as well as business economics and managerial economics. Dr. Dupoyet is fluent in French and English and has working knowledge of Chinese (Mandarin) and Spanish. His industry experience includes working as a financial analyst for E&J Gallo Winery and a financial planner assistant with Merrill Lynch.

Suchismita MishraAssistant Professor

Dr. Mishra recently graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a PhD in finance, where she also graduated with a MA in international economics. Previously, she attended Utkal University in India, where she earned her BA in economics and her MA in applied and analytical economics. Her teaching interests include corporate finance, international finance, financial institutions, and investments, including derivative securities. Dr. Mishra’s research interests include asset pricing models and tests, market microstructure, international asset valuation and risk management, market efficiency, corporate takeovers and divestitures, and investments. In addition, Dr. Mishra is experienced in FORTRAN, SAS, Shazam, RATS, MATLAB, CRSP, and COMPUSTAT.

Management & International Business

Alan Lee Carsrud, 1st year of multi year appointmentInstructor

Dr. Alan Carsrud graduated from Texas Christian University with a BA in Psychology and Sociology. He later attended The University of New

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Hampshire where he obtained both his MA and PhD in Psychology. Post-doctoral studies include applied, industrial and organizational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Carsrud’s professional and academic positions include senior lecturer in Electrical Engineering teaching and directing the Entrepreneurship for Engineers Program at UCLA; senior lecturer and academic coordinator at UCLA’s Price Center of Entrepreneurial Studies; visiting associate professor of Entrepreneurship at Bond University School of Business in Queensland, Australia; visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore; visiting scholar at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay and adjunct associate professor at Pepperdine University’s School of Business and Management. Dr. Carsrud’s research interests include the relationship of micro and macro level variables to entrepreneurial strategies and firm success; international entrepreneurship and regional economic development; the analyses of strategy and complex organizational behaviors and their relationship to personality factors, and transfer of technology and university-based research to entrepreneurial firms. Dr. Carsrud has been a principal investigator and co-principal investigator in many research projects and has numerous professional business publications.

Aya ChacarAssistant Professor

Dr. Chacar obtained her PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles. She has just joined FIU from the London Business School, one of the top 10 business schools in the world, where she was an Assistant Professor of Strategic and International Business. Dr. Chacar has also visited at Ohio State University, the University of Utah, and Balamand University. Dr. Chacar’s research and teaching are on business and corporate strategy and the management of innovation and change. Her research has been singled out twice for publication in the yearly Academy of Management Proceedings, which compiles the best 5% of papers, and twice for publication in the yearly Strategic Management Society’s ‘best of the conference’ edited books. Her most recent paper, with her PhD student, Bala Vissa, now at INSEAD, won the best paper award from the International Management Division at the Academy of Management Meeting in Denver in 2002. Her latest publication is titled “Innovation and Value Creation in Major League Baseball: 1860-Present”, with Bill Hesterly and is forthcoming in Business History.

Sumit K. KunduAssociate Professor

Dr. Sumit K. Kundu holds a PhD in international business from Rutgers University. He has an MBA in finance and an MBA in marketing from Rutgers University and University of Calcutta, respectively. He also received an MBA in international business from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Dr. Kundu has taught several international business courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at Saint Louis University, the State University of New York, Northeastern University, and Rutgers University. His extensive international experience includes teaching at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), City University of Hong Kong (China), Saint Louis University

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Madrid Campus (Spain), and the Indian Institute of Management. Dr. Kundu has been the recipient of several teaching awards namely, Outstanding Graduate Teacher of the Year Award (2003), Teacher of the Year for Executive Master’s in International Business program (2003), and Teacher of the Year for the Full time MBA program (2003). On the research front, Dr. Kundu has published several articles in prestigious journals, namely, Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Journal of Small Business Economics. His research interests are in the areas of internationalization of service industries, theories of multinational enterprise, global strategic alliances, international entrepreneurship, and emerging multinationals. Dr. Kundu has received several competitive research grants at various institutions. He has chaired and served on dissertation committees, and presented numerous papers in the Academy of International Business and Academy of Management conferences. Dr. Kundu has also served as the President and Program Chair for the Midwest Academy of International Business Conference in 2003 and 2002 respectively. His corporate experience includes cash flow management and international marketing for Unilever PLC, Fedders Lloyd PLC, and Phillips Petroleum PLC. Dr. Kundu has been a consultant to several multinational corporations such as MasterCard International, Ingersoll Rand-Hussmann International, Boeing, and CPI-Sears Portrait Studio.

Marketing

Anthony MiyazakiAssistant Professor

Dr. Anthony Miyazaki holds a PhD in Marketing from the University of South Carolina. He comes to FIU from the University of Miami where he taught strategic marketing management, market analysis, and strategic planning in the undergraduate, MBA, and executive MBA programs. He also taught the marketing modules for the Spanish-language executive MBA programs. Dr. Miyazaki often incorporates the case method into his course structure, having received training in this method at both the University of Western Ontario and Harvard Business School. He has been the recipient of school-wide and university-wide Excellence in Teaching Awards. Prior to obtaining his doctorate, Dr. Miyazaki held positions in bank marketing and industrial marketing. Dr. Miyazaki's academic research focuses on buyer and seller decision making under uncertainty, perception and management of risk and uncertainty, risk communication, and the marketing and consumption of high-risk products. His research considers the perspectives of the firm, the consumer, and regulatory (i.e., policy-related) agencies. He also examines pricing and price-setting, as well as corporate charisma and organizational image.

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College of Education

Educational & Psychological Studies

William Bryce HagedornAssistant Professor

Dr. Hagedorn has a CACREP accredited PhD in counseling and counselor education from the University of North Carolina. He is a licensed professional counselor in North Carolina and a national certified counselor. Dr. Hagedorn taught contemporary topics in counseling, stress management and helping skills while a doctoral teaching assistant at the University of North Carolina. He was also a counselor in private practice as well as substance abuse counselor/assessment and crisis counselor with the Moses Cone Behavioral Health Center, the University of North Carolina Counseling and Consulting Clinic; and the Choices Counseling Center. Dr. Hagedorn also has specialized training as a cognitive behavioral intervention instructor. He is a member of the American Counseling Association; the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision; the Association of Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling; the Counseling Association for Humanistic Education and Development; and the International Association of Addictions and Offender Counselors.

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies

Jeffrey S. BrooksAssistant Professor

Dr. Brooks attended the University of Missouri where he obtained his BA, his MEd in curriculum and instruction and later his PhD with specializations in educational policy analysis, educational leadership, organizational analysis, foundations of education and qualitative research methodologies. Dr. Brooks’ professional experience includes working as a substitute teacher, teaching intern, graduate teaching assistant, middle school teacher, graduate research assistant and adjunct professor. Courses taught include communications in educational administration, school law, microcomputer applications for administrators, and ethics in educational administration. Dr. Brooks is a member of the American Educational Research Association, the Politics in Education Association, the International Society of General Semantics, and the Midwest Philosophy of Education Society.

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College of Engineering

Biomedical

Nikolaos TsoukiasAssistant Professor

Dr. Tsoukias attended the University of California–Irvine where graduated with both an MS and a PhD in chemical and biochemical engineering. He studied chemical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Dr. Tsoukias has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at both the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering of the University of California-Irvine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He was also a lecturer at the Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. His latest research experience includes angiogenesis and tissue oxygenation; high performance computing simulations of oxygen transport in three-dimensional microvascular networks in the presence of hemoglobin-based blood substitutes; oxygen and nitric oxide transport in the microcirculation in the presence of blood substitutes; the estimation of the endogenous NO production distribution from dynamically changing flow rate maneuvers, and lung mechanics: modeling the expiratory flow properties after laser or staple lung volume reduction surgery in emphysema.

Electrical

Roman Chomko, Visiting 1st yearAssociate Scholar & Scientist

Dr. Chomko attended the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he graduated with a BS in natural sciences, earned a diploma of engineer-scientist and later a MS with high honors in applied physics. He went on to attend the University of Miami and he graduated with a PhD in physics, with 18 credits taken in biomedical engineering. Since 1999, he has worked as a research associate and assistant scientist at the NASA sponsored Atmospheric and Ocean Optics Group of UM’s Physics Department. Dr. Chomko’s research interests include physics of nanosystems and devices; micromagnetic dynamics of nanoscale devices; electromagnetic fields; wave scattering and propagation; NASA ocean color sensors; and perpendicular recording technologies.

Sakhrat KhizroevAssociate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Khizroev graduated with a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He graduated from UM with an MS in physics and from Moscow PhysTech with a MS in quantum electronics. Dr. Khizroev has over 60 publications in scientific journals in the area of

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nanoscale applications of magnetism; more than 90 provisional patents and more than 32 US and international patents filed on behalf of IBM Research and Seagate Research. His research interests include nanoscale magnetic applications and recording; nanoscale patterning of biological materials; nanoscale devices for bioengineering applications; nanoscale metrology and MRAM. Dr. Khizroev’s research at Carnegie Mellon and IBM Almaden Research Center demonstrated the presence of “practical” magnetic properties in devices with dimensions smaller than 50 nm.

Roberto R. PanepucciAssistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Panepucci attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he graduated with a PhD in electrical and computer engineering. He obtained his BS and MS at the University of São Paulo. His professional experience includes providing consulting services for a state of the art micro and nano fabrication company. As a senior research associate at Cornell, he worked on the development of fabrication processes for novel nanophotonic devices based on Si as an optical material. His research interests include optical properties of III-V nanofabricated structures and nanophotonics; nano-systems fabrication using the element/device/component technology developed at FIU.

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Seongmoon KimAssistant Professor

Dr. Kim’s research interests include stochastic dynamic vehicle routing and scheduling; stochastic operations research and Markov decision processes; transportation logistics; supply chain management and network optimization with heuristic search algorithms. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a PhD in industrial and operations engineering. Dr. Kim’s teaching interests include linear programming; nonlinear programming; dynamic programming; network flows; stochastic processes; facilities planning and material handling; statistical quality control; engineering economy and financial engineering. He has regularly published articles in The Business Logistics, Korea’s oldest and most prestigious magazine in the field of logistic.

Mechanical

Wonbong ChoiAssociate Professor

Dr. Choi attended North Carolina State University in Raleigh where he graduated with a PhD in materials science and engineering. Since 1998, he worked as a senior researcher/ project manager for Samsung AIT, where he developed world’s first carbon nanotube field emission display and developed

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selectively grown carbon nanotube and CNT-FET device. He also worked as a research scientist in the materials laboratory at the Agency for Defense Development in Korea. Dr. Choi is fluent in English and Korean. He has been invited to speak at numerous conferences throughout the US and Europe as well as published over 40 articles in professional journals. Dr. Choi has 15 granted patents, 25 applied for, and he invented the first vertical transistor in carbon nano-tubes. Dr. Choi’s research areas include carbon nanotubes functional devices, nanotubes transistors and nanoelectronics.

George DulikravichProfessor and Chair

Professor Dulikravich has authored and co-authored approximately 300 technical publications in diverse fields involving computational and analytical fluid mechanics, subsonic, transonic and hypersonic aerodynamics, and theoretical and computational electro-magneto-hydrodynamics. Dr. Dulikravich attended Cornell University where he graduated with a PhD in aerospace engineering and applied mathematics. He is also a registered professional engineer in Texas. His areas of expertise include multi-disciplinary aero-thermo-structural-electro-magnetics analysis; inverse design; optimization turbo machinery aerodynamics; heat transfer, and elasticity simulation and design optimization. His teaching experience includes courses taught at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington; the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University; and the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Novi Sad in Yugoslavia, among others.

Hexiong YangAssociate Professor

Dr. Yang is currently working at Center for the Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions, where he is studying the properties of materials at various conditions (high temperatures and pressures.) He attended the University of Washington in Seattle where he graduated with a PhD in crystallography and mineralogy. Prior to joining FIU in the summer of 2003, Dr. Yang worked as a staff scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He conducted research on interactions between minerals and microbes to understand the effects of crystal properties on microbial activities. His research interests include high-resolution crystallography, atomic ordering, nanomaterials and materials characterization.

College of Health & Urban Affairs

School of Public Health

Dev S. PathakDirector

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Prior to joining FIU, Dr. Pathak was interim dean, School of Public Health; interim chair, Division of Health Services Management and Policy; director, Center for Health Outcomes, Policy, and Evaluation Studies (HOPES); and, Merrell Dow Professor in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Administration at the Ohio State University. Professor Pathak received his MS in economics from Southern Illinois University, and MBA and DBA in marketing and finance from Michigan State University. He is widely published in peer-reviewed journals. He has authored/co-authored and edited/co-edited 19 books, monographs and/or special journal issues, and more than 160 peer-reviewed articles. His articles are published in journals such as Journal of Health Care Management, Health Economics, Annals of Pharmacotherapy, Drug Information Journal, Journal of Health Care Marketing, American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Economics, and Journal of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management. Dr. Pathak is frequently invited to speak at national and international meetings related to his research interests. These include topics such as economic evaluation of health care and pharmaceutical programs and services with special emphasis on health status valuation using utility analysis and health related quality of life measurements, drug distribution and public policy, health care marketing, and strategic planning and health care organizations. He has functioned as an adviser to various business and professional organizations including Pfizer (New York, NY), Searle (Peapack, NJ), Glaxo-Welcome Inc. (Research Triangle Park, NC), Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Cincinnati, OH), Upjohn (Kalamazoo, MI), Ritzman Pharmacy, Inc. (Akron, OH), and Ministerio de Salud (Lima, Peru). In 2002, Dr. Pathak received The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. He also received the Research Achievement Award from Economics, Marketing and Management Section of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in 2000. In 1994, he received the Research Achievement Award from the American Pharmaceutical Association, and the Chaterjee Memorial Award from the Indian Pharmaceutical Association for outstanding contribution to the discipline of pharmaceutical administration in 1989.

Jessy Devieux, Visiting 1st yearScholar, Public Health

Dr. Devieux is a research professor of Public Health at Florida International University working with the AIDS Prevention Program (APP). She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a PhD in clinical psychology. She is a licensed psychologist in Florida and Tennessee, has a certification in redecision therapy and related techniques as well as clinical membership certification in transactional analysis. Prior to joining FIU, she worked as a clinical associate professor at the University of Miami, an assistant professor at Meharry Medical College in Nashville and an assistant professor at Tennessee State University in Nashville. Dr. Devieux has two books and monographs published and over fifteen juried or refereed journal articles. Her research has focused on AIDS prevention and education, with over $16 million in sponsored research during the past 10 years.

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Robert Malow, Visiting 1st yearScholar, Public Health

Robert Malow, Ph.D., ABPP, is a diplomat in health psychology and a licensed clinical psychologist. He is a research professor of Public Health at Florida International University, and director of the Florida International University AIDS Prevention Program (APP). The APP includes a research team of highly trained, experienced and dedicated assessors, interventionists, data entry operators and analysts, statisticians, manuscript and grant writers, and grant specialists. The APP is anchored by several federally funded projects in the area of translational design and technology transfer. It aims at addressing the gap between research and practice in HIV/AIDS prevention. Its focus is the translation and transfer of effective interventions for culturally diverse groups. The APP’s international projects include collaborations with community sites in the Caribbean and South Africa. Dr. Malow has conducted numerous HIV prevention studies with socio-economically disadvantaged, minority, drug-abusing, adolescent and adult populations. He has authored over 100 scientific publications including several recent adolescent HIV prevention articles. Dr. Malow has had considerable experience as a principal investigator on eight NIH funded projects including HIV prevention studies with high-risk adolescent, mentally ill and adult drug abusers.

Mary Jo TrepkaAssociate Professor, Public Health

Dr. Trepka majored in chemistry and German at Grinnell College in Iowa and later graduated from the University of Minnesota, School of Medicine with an MD degree. She went on to attend the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and graduated with a MSPH. For the past four years, she has been the director of the Office of Epidemiology and Disease Control with the Miami-Dade County Health Department. She has taught at FIU as an adjunct professor since January 2000. Dr. Trepka is a member of the American Board of Preventive Medicine in Public Health & General Preventive Medicine as well as a fellow in the American College of Preventive Medicine. She holds medical licenses in Florida and Colorado and is a member of the American Public Health Association, the American College of Preventive Medicine, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, as well as the Florida Public Health Association.

Won SuhAssistant Professor, Health Services Administration

Professor Suh is a doctoral candidate in health services administration with a concentration in strategic management of health care organizations and healthcare finance. He is participating in a joint program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Houston with a MHA in healthcare administration. Mr. Suh’s fields of interest include strategic management of healthcare organizations, healthcare finance, healthcare policy, information system for healthcare executive scanning, organizational theory and research methods. His teaching interests are

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institutional change and strategic management of healthcare organizations, healthcare finance, organizational behavior, managed care and research methods. He worked as a researcher and consultant for the Korean Health Industry Development Institute and as a resident at the Seoul School Health Center in Seoul.

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School of Health

Jean MeadAssistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders

Dr. Mead graduated from Marshall University where she obtained her BA and MA in communication disorders. She later graduated from West Virginia University with a EdD in leadership studies. Her teaching experience includes Southeastern Louisiana University where she taught voice disorders, diagnostics, assessment of individuals with special needs, public school methods and materials; and clinical supervision. In addition, her clinical experience includes working as a speech-language pathologist for over 10 years, where she was responsible for identifying, diagnosing and treating communication science disorders in infants, children, adults and the elderly.

Mark J. Witkind, 1st year of multi year appointmentAssociate Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders

Dr. Witkind’s educational background includes a BA in speech and hearing sciences from the University of Miami, a MS in speech-language pathology and a MEd in program development and health services from Columbia University, a professional certificate in health care management from the City University of New York and a doctorate in speech-language pathology from Nova Southeastern University. His professional experience includes over 12 years as specialty clinical supervisor and coordinator of the Continuing Education Programs in USF’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Dr. Witkind developed the curriculum and taught the professional ethics course; he coordinated and supervised the clinical practicum for language/phonology; taught diagnostics I and II, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in voice and fluency disorders. In addition, Dr. Witkind is a licensed and registered speech and language pathologist in Florida and New York.

Catherine PeirceAssistant Professor, Occupational Therapy

Dr. Peirce attended Nova Southeastern University where she graduated with a PhD in occupational therapy. Her concentration was on research, community-based services for people with chronic conditions and occupational therapy programming. Her research skills include qualitative methodologies including focus group, in-depth interview, descriptive and true experimental design. As an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University, she taught courses on wellness and health promotion and grant writing. Dr. Peirce also worked as a clinical consultant where she provided and coordinated training of occupational therapists and other rehabilitation professionals. Dr. Peirce is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association, the Florida Occupational Therapy Association, the National Adult Day Services Association, and the National Council on Aging. She also holds a Florida license in occupational therapy.

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School of Nursing

Kathryn AndersonAssistant Professor

Dr. Anderson has several degrees, including a BSN from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, a MS in guidance and counseling and a MS in marriage and family from the University of Wisconsin at Stout; a MS in psychiatric mental health and a PhD in nursing from the University of Minnesota. She is licensed/certified in Wisconsin as a marriage and family therapist and as an RN and as a medical assistance provider. Nationally, she is a clinical member of AAMFT. Her prior appointment was as a professor in the Department of Family Health Nursing at the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire. She has also worked as a family therapist, psychotherapist and as a family mental health consultant. Dr. Anderson has been the recipient of numerous awards and research grants. Courses taught include advanced theories and practice in family health, nursing I, nursing II, family concepts affecting family health, as well children and families with health deviations, among others.

Charles M. BoboAssistant Professor

Mr. Charles Bobo holds several degrees, including a Juris Doctor in Law from Georgia State University College of Law, MS in Nursing and an MBA from Florida Atlantic University, an Associate Degree in Nursing from MDCC, as well as a BA in English from the University of Florida. His teaching experience includes introduction to professional nursing practice; skills lab instructor/skills seminar lecturer; pharmacology (guest lecturer); primary prevention; tertiary prevention and synthesis of care across the lifespan; and nursing trends and issues (lecturer). Mr. Bobo is a registered nurse in Georgia and Florida and is a Certified Critical Care Registered Nurse, is certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support and certified in Basic Cardiac Life Support. He is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, American Nurses Association, American Association of Nurse Attorneys, American Bar Association, Georgia Bar Association, and the Florida Bar Association.

Juan E. GonzálezAssistant Professor

Mr. González attended Barry University, where he obtained a BS in biology with a minor in chemistry, a BS in nursing and a MS in the anesthesiology-CRNA program. He has worked as a CRNA clinical instructor for SRNA’s at Jackson Memorial Hospital; as a CRNA at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood and the Summit Medical Center in Nashville. Mr. González also worked as an RN at Baptist Hospital and the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.

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Sharon SimonAssistant Professor

Ms. Simon is a registered nurse with an MS in nursing from the University of Miami. She has a broad nursing background, as she worked in critical care, surgical units, post anesthesia care units and same day surgery. She has been working as an RN II in ambulatory surgery at Cedars Medical Center, where she also held the position of hand surgery coordinator. In the latter position, she educated surgery staff and emergency personnel on the care of a patient with a severed limb.

School of Policy and Management

H.T. Smith, 1st year of multi year appointmentLecturer, Criminal Justice

Professor Smith graduated from Florida A&M with a BS in mathematics and later from the UM School of Law with Juris Doctorate degree. He was the first African-American assistant public defender and later the first African-American assistant county attorney with Miami-Dade County. Mr. Smith has been in private practice since 1977, specializing in civil, criminal, personal injury and wrongful death. In 1973, he was admitted to the Florida Bar and is admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court, Florida Supreme Court, US Second Circuit Court of Appeals, US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, US District Court - Southern District of Florida and the US District Court – Eastern District of Wisconsin. Mr. Smith is a Golden Heritage Life Member of the NAACP; an advisory board member of First Union National Bank for Miami-Dade/Monroe County Chapters. He has been the recipient of numerous honors, most recently the Leadership and Service Award – Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter of the National Bar Association; the Community Service Award of Metro Miami Action Plan Trust, and the Citizen of the Year Award by The King of Clubs of Greater Miami, Inc.

School of Journalism & Mass Communication

Yolanda CalAssistant Professor

Dr. Cal graduated with a PhD in advertising from the University of Texas at Austin, where she also taught psychology of advertising, introduction to creativity, mass media and society, and worked as a slide and archives librarian. Dr. Cal also taught public relations and humanities courses at Alabama State University. Her research experience includes “Perceptions, exceptions and stereotypes: visual representation and the Monster’s Ball” (accepted for AEJMC Convention in 2002), and Emerging Scholarship Conference Paper in Women’s and Gender Studies, “The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice: Halle Berry and the Black Barbie Image,” among others.

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Fernando Figueredo, Visiting, 1st yearAssociate Professor

Mr. Figueredo graduated from the University of Florida with a BS in industrial engineering and later graduated from FIU with an MBA. He has lectured at UM, UF and FIU as well as been a speaker and panelist in professional conferences including the Annual International Conference for the Public Relations Society of America, the Annual International Advertising Association Conference, the Annual Conference on Social Communications in Brazil, and the Latin America Technology Conference in Tampa, among others. Mr. Figueredo is the vice president for corporate communications at AOL Latin America and previously worked in the same capacity with Lucent Technologies. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Silver Anvil Award for implementing the year’s top international integrated communications campaign; he was one of the seven recipients honored by Hispanic Magazine receiving the Hispanic Leadership Award for 2000, and honored by UF in 2001 as the recipient of the Corporate Leadership award.

Michael Sheerin, Visiting, 1st yearAssistant Professor

Mr. Sheerin is an FIU graduate with a MS in communications. He has a BS in medical technology from UM and a BS in communications from FIU. As an adjunct professor at FIU, he has taught courses in visual communications, new technologies in mass communication, basic videography and video production. Since 2002, he has also worked as a visual effects producer and art director, designer and multimedia specialist. Mr. Sheerin is a member of the AEJMC, FIU’s Kappa Tau Alpha (National Honor Society), FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication Advisory Board and the Florida Chapter of Siggraph. In 2002, he was awarded merit recognition for excellence in teaching FIU’s Academy for the Art of Teaching.

College of Law

Lillian R. AponteLecturer

Professor Aponte graduated from the University of Florida, Levine College of Law with a JD with honors, where she was also awarded the book award for legal research and writing, the book award for appellate advocacy, and the book award for jurisprudence. Her teaching experience includes working as a teaching assistant (appellate advocacy and legal research and writing) at the University of Florida. She also worked as a litigation associate with a private firm, a certified intern with the Office of the State Attorney – Domestic Violence Division, and as a clerk with the Supreme Court of Florida.

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Karen Pita LoorLecturer

Professor Loor attended Washington College of Law, American University where she graduated cum laude with a JD. She is a member of the Florida Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Ms. Loor’s professional experience includes working as an appellate attorney, a felony attorney and a juvenile attorney with the Public Defender Service in Washington DC. She also worked as a staff attorney with the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center in Miami.

Peggy MaiselAssociate Professor, Clinical Programs

Ms. Maisel’s educational background includes a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Antioch School of Law, a JD from Boston University School of Law, an MA from the Occidental College in Los Angeles, as well as a BA from Pomona College. Her academic experience includes working at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa. In 1996, she was a Fulbright Professor of Law and from 1997 to 2001, she worked as associate professor of law. During this time, Ms. Maisel led the design and several revisions of two new core courses entitled Introduction to Law and Foundations of South African Law: Critical Issues. She has co-authored two textbooks for these new courses, published in 2001 and 2002. In addition, she assisted with the restructuring of the Campus Law Clinic into units specializing in development and land reform, gender and children’s rights, and juvenile and administrative justice.

Jerry MarkhamProfessor

Professor Markham graduated with a J.D. from the University of Kentucky, College of Law and later with a LL.M from Georgetown University in Washington DC. Professor Markham comes to the FIU College of Law from the University of North Carolina where he had been a member of the law faculty for 12 years. Before that, he served for 10 years as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University School of Law. He is a nationally recognized scholar and proven classroom teacher in the fields of corporate finance, banking, commodities trading, securities and international trade law. He has written numerous law review articles that have been published by law school journals at Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Yale, Columbia, Duke, Iowa, Emory, Notre Dame, Fordham, Washington & Lee, Temple, Seton Hall and San Diego. He is the author of a three volume financial history of the United States and has co-authored four casebooks on corporate law and banking regulation. He also has published a two-volume treatise and a history book on the law of commodity futures regulation, and was the principal co-author of a two-volume treatise on securities regulation. In 1994, Professor Markham was a lecturer at the Université Jean Moulin in Lyon, France. He also has lectured in Sydney, Warsaw, Beijing, Mexico City, Montevideo, Fukuoka, and Bangkok. He is coeditor and contributor to an English handbook on United States securities regulation. He served as chair of the

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International Commodity Regulation Committee for the American Bar Association and as co-chair of the Commodity Subcommittee of the Securities Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association. Before his move to academia, Professor Markham had been secretary and counsel, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.; chief counsel, Division of Enforcement, United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and a partner with the international firm of Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance) in Washington, D.C. In law school, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Kentucky Law Journal and was named to the Order of the Coif.

Charles PouncyAssociate Professor

Professor Charles Pouncy is a graduate of Fordham University and the Cornell Law School. Professor Pouncy has been a law professor since 1995, previously serving on the faculties at the University of Florida, College of Law and the Temple University School of Law. He teaches in the areas of business associations, corporate finance, commercial law, banking law and professional responsibility. Professor Pouncy has written in a wide range of areas, including corporate law, stock markets in developing countries, law and economics, and critical race and gender theory. His articles have appeared in leading journals, including the Cardozo Law Review, the S.M.U. Law Review, the Rutgers Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania, Journal of International Economic Law. Professor Pouncy also has lectured widely, and in 2000 taught Business Associations and Securities Regulation to Chinese law professors at Jilin University School of Law in Changchun, Jilin, P.R.C. In addition, he had served as a Senior Trial Attorney at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and at the Office of Thrift Supervision, U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Howard WassermanAssistant Professor

Mr. Wasserman graduated magna cum laude with a JD from Northwestern University School of Law, where he served as associate articles editor of the Law Review and was named to the Order of the Coif. His bar admissions include United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and the Illinois Bar. After law school, he worked as a litigation associate at a Chicago law firm, and then clerked for Chief Judge James T. Giles of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for Judge Jane R. Roth on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before coming to FIU, Professor Wasserman served for two years as a visiting assistant professor of law at Florida State University College of Law. He teaches and publishes in the areas of civil procedure, evidence, civil rights and free speech. In his academic career thus far, he has published a number of scholarly articles, including pieces in the Emory, Tulane, Kentucky, and George Washington law journals.

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Library

Inna IlinskayaReference and Instructional Services Librarian

Ms. Ilinskaya graduated from the Department of Information Studies, University of California with a MLIS. Her specialized coursework included information access, information resources for business, government information, computer–based information resources, and design of library and information services as well as electronic publishing. She worked as a research assistant at UCLA’s Department of Information Studies, where she served as associate editor for An English-Russian Dictionary of Library and Information Science Terminology. Ms. Ilinskaya is also experienced as a records specialist, developing curricula for RRM’s classes, and counseling departments on records management procedures. In Russia, she worked as a cataloger and librarian; the latter in the US Consulate General in St. Petersburg.

Amy KaneEvening and Weekend Service Librarian

Ms. Kane is a graduate of the University of Washington, where he obtained an MLIS from The Information School. Her experience includes working as a graduate reference assistant at the University of Washington, Bothell/Cascadia Community College. Ms. Kane assisted patrons with research, including catalog searching, electronic databases and print resources. She also assisted librarians with various projects, including the development of a bibliography and research web site and collection development activities.

Denise RobistowLibrarian

Ms. Robistow graduated from Simmons College with a MLIS and her cataloging experience includes a year in a large academic library (University of South Florida) and eight years non-professional technical services experience in two major academic libraries (MIT and Harvard University). At the University of South Florida’s Tampa Bay Library Consortium, she worked on upgrading USF’s special collections, a grant -funded project to catalog backlog of early American literature. She is experienced with AACR2r, LCRI, LCSH, MARC21 formats, LC classification and the principles of authority control. Ms. Robistow is a member of the American Library Association, Florida Library Association, Special Libraries Association and Suncoast Information Specialists.

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Academic Affairs

Administration

Kyle PerkinsVice Provost for Budget & Operations

Dr. Perkins holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Michigan. As an undergraduate, he studied German and English at Union College, where he received his BA. Dr. Perkins’ entire professional career has been at Southern Illinois University, where he held a variety of academic administrative roles including acting chair of linguistics, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs--planning (1992-1999) and then planning and budget (1999-2002). During this period, Dr. Perkins also served as interim provost and vice chancellor (Spring 2002-December 2002). He was promoted to professor of linguistics in 1985, and has held a joint appointment as professor of internal medicine at Southern Illinois in the School of Medicine since in 1997. He was the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher in 1984. He has also been a visiting associate professor of linguistics at the American University in Cairo, Egypt (1982-83 academic year). His professorial appointment will be as Professor of TESOL in the College of Education.

At SIU, Dr. Perkins led the development of a strategic faculty hiring plan intended to raise the National Research Council rankings of SIU’s competitive programs, and to enhance core doctoral programs lacking critical mass; he developed and coordinated the academic planning procedures, including an annual campus resource allocation management plan, and he had responsibility for academic facility and space utilization/allocation within the academic affairs area.

A nationally recognized expert on language testing, Dr. Perkins is the author/co-author or editor of four books and over 100 articles. His most recent publication is a multi-authored assessment on “risk-factor fusion for predicting multifactorial diseases” in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 49, 72-76, 2002.

Marie ZeglenVice Provost for Planning & Institutional Effectiveness

Dr. Marie Zeglen came to FIU from Cleveland State University, where she held the position of vice provost for planning, assessment, and information resource management. Dr. Zeglen holds a PhD in sociology (with a specialization in research methods and statistics, family studies and social gerontology) from Washington State University. She holds a BA in anthropology from Ohio State University where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa as well. Dr. Zeglen's past academic administrative appointments include director of biomedical communications and manager of computer resources and services at the College of Veterinary Medicine in Washington

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State University (1976-84); senior policy and planning analyst in the office of analysis services and associate director of information systems in the University of Wisconsin System (1984-1989); executive director of policy analysis in the University System of New Hampshire (1989-1995); associate provost for planning and institutional research at Northern Arizona University (1996-2000); and finally vice provost for planning, assessment and information resource management since 2000 at Cleveland State University, where she reported jointly to both the President and the Provost.

Dr. Zeglen has extensive experience in enterprise-wide data system implementation, strategic and master planning, accreditation and program review, and fundraising to support strategic program change. Nationally, she serves as a member of the ten person national Academic Planning Academy for the Society for College and University Planning, and she also serves as an examiner for the Baldrige based Governor's Award for Excellence in Ohio.

She presented a paper, “The Budget Iceberg: Using Planning to Create Capacity for Change” at the July 2002 national meetings of both the Society for College and University Planning and the National Association of College and University Business Officers. Her most recent publication, “Policy Analysis: Scouting for the Academic Wagon Train,” can be found in Doing Academic Planning by B.P. Nedwek (ed.).

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