Meet the Teacher-Scholar Mentors
Department: Center for Medical Education
Research Area: Glycogen metabolism in genetically modified mouse models.
Department: Construction Management and Interior Design
Research Area: Local Community. Exploring human and environmental dimensions of wellbeing in built environments through design, sociology, and religious studies.
Department: Construction Management and Interior Design
Research Area: Solar Panel Projects - Net Metering - Utility Companies.
Department: Architecture
Research Area: Heritage Interpretation
Department: Landscape Architecture
Research Area: History and Theory of Built Environment, Urban Conservation, Inclusive Excellence, and the Built Environment, Design Pedagogy
Department: Construction Management and Interior Design
Research Area: Green building and community, Post Occupancy Evaluation, Energy efficiency
Department: Architecture
Research Area: Building performance--comfort, energy, green, sustainability, decarbonization
Department: Landscape Architecture
Research Area: Re-engagement with our wooded natural heritage.
Department: Construction Management and Interior Design
Research Area: Autism, behaviors and environmental factors
Department: Construction Management and Interior Design
Research Area: Biomimicry ideas to save building energy consumption
Department: School of Journalism and Strategic Communication
Research Area: Eyewitness misidentification and avoiding misinformation and wrongful convictions.
Department: School of Journalism and Strategic Communication
Research Area: Motivated cognitive and psychological processing of strategic communication messages (e.g., for advertising, public relations, computer-based learning, public health and environmental campaigns) in traditional and emerging media.
Department: Communication Studies
Research Area: College Students and Work-Life Balance issues
Department: Center for Communication and Information Sciences
Research Area: Career and Technical Education (CTE)
Department: Media
Research Area: Video game research, - Video game effect and E sports
Department: Media
Research Area: Media and telecommunication-based issues examining marginalized ethnic, gender and age groups' uses, challenges and portrayals.
Department: School of Journalism and Strategic Communication
Research Area: Testing psychophysiological and self-reported responses to emotional content and narrative strategies in ‘Child Hunger’ prosocial communication
Department: School of Journalism and Strategic Communication
Research Area: Teaching with Magic, Creativity, Learning Game/Simulation Design and Development
Department: School of Art
Research Area: My research involves the creation of contemporary objects for exhibition in galleries and museums that utilize metalsmithing, enameling and community engagement.
Department: Music
Research Area: Unpublished Music
Department: School of Art
Research Area: Methods of navigation
Department: Theatre and Dance
Research Area: LPre-production research for the BSU dance concert Contemporary Collaborations with a focus on underrepresented female artists/figures in history.
Department: School of Art and David Owsley Museum of Art
Research Area: Arts of Asia
Department: School of Music
Research Area: Teacher Concerns, Teacher Development and Growth, Equity in Education, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Cultural Competence
Department: School of Art
Research Area:The art of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Department: Music
Research Area: I am exploring the ways that musicians, reporters, and other writers use terminology when describing music.
Department: Theatre and Dance
Research Area: LGBTQ+ Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Queer Representation and Pedagogy.
Department: School of Music
Research Area: New music/research, percussion works in the 21st century, percussion pedagoy
Department: Music Education
Research Area: I am looking at ways in which music educators teach percussion within a large ensemble setting (or otherwise). I am also interested in document analysis in qualitative research and the ways in which researchers use documents as artifacts.
Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Culturally sensitive health promotion and health care with the goal of preventing and reducing chronic disease among racial/ethnic minority and low-income communities.
Department: Sport Administration
Research Area: I focus on amateur sport, specifically research on interscholastic and intercollegiate sport.
Department: Speech Pathology and Audiology
Research Area: Auditory-visual communication, executive function/working memory, hearing across the life-span
Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Nutrition and Health Education for under-served audiences, specifically those who rely on food pantries to meet their everyday food needs.
Department: Biology
Research Area: Athlete health, well-being, and performance
Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Research focuses on various aspects of nutrition and health.
Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Cardiovascular disease prevention and "real-world" nutrition
Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Diet quality screening in the community and clinical settings
Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Preventing chronic disease and promoting health for all by understanding relationships between physical health, healthy behaviors, and psychological and social factors.
Department: School of Kinesiology
Research Area: Effects of exercise on cognition, exercise motivation
Department: School of Kinesiology
Research Area: Dr. Marciniak's research seeks to inform training and recovery practices of firefighters through the utilization of cardiovascular and musculoskeletal performance measures.
Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Maternal and Child Health, Substance Use Disorder
Department: School of Kinesiology
Research Area: Physical Fitness and Wellness
Department: Social Work
Research Area: Family dynamics in youth sports, mainly examining the programmatic dimensions and parent behaviors in youth sports.
Department: Speech Pathology & Audiology
Research Area: Pediatric tinnitus and hearing loss and their relation to noise exposure
Department: Speech Pathology & Audiology
Research Area: Augmentative and Alternative Communication Artificial Intelligence and Speech Pathology
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Area: Victimization; Victimology; Sexual Violence; Intimate Partner Violence (DV)
Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Election Administration, Technology of Voting Systems
Department: English
Research Area: Masculinity and queerness in early and nineteenth-century American literature and culture
Department: Biology
Research Area: Micro and Molecular Biology
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Applications of task-specific ionic liquids and development of paper-based microfluidic devices
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: First semester chemistry students can be nervous about identifying and handling lab equipment. I’m interested in developing learning activities to help these students better prepare for their lab experience.
Department: Sociology
Research Area: Lesbian studies, qualitative research methods, gender studies, LGBTQ community, feminist research
Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Urban anthropology, feminist anthropology, immigrants and refugees
Department: Biology
Research Area: Studying and mitigating the progression of Colitis in mouse models
Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Video game preservation and sustainable game development.
Department: English
Research Area: Contemporary Irish literature
Department: Biology
Research Area: Biomechanical and physiological mechanisms underlying animal locomotion, with the goal of understanding what processes govern the interaction between animals and their environment.
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Engineering enzymes as green chemical catalysts. We apply the technologies of synthetic biology and directed evolution to make targeted changes to existing natural enzymes to develop catalysts with new or improved reactivity.
Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Historical archeology of the eastern US, Midwest and Southeast from 1700s to early 1900s.
Department: English, Immersive Learning & High Impact Practices
Research Area: Qualitative research on teaching and learning in higher education
Department: Environment, Geology and Natural Resources
Research Area: Hydrology, water resources, natural resources, water quality, geography, GIS, climate change
Department: Political Science
Research Area: Research on emergency management and homeland security policy implementation in the United States.
Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: My research investigates some of the social, cognitive, and neural processes involved in (mis)communication in digital contexts.
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Area: The effects of media consumption on attitudes related to crime and justice; Criminological theories; Substance use.
Department: Disability Services/Women's & Gender Studies
Research Area: 1) All things related to student disability accommodations in higher education, but specifcally transitioning from high school to college; 2) The intersections of feminism and disability; 3) Feminism/WGS in the real world or what do you do with a WGS degree after graduation? 4) Feminism & women's history in Muncie & at BSU
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: My research is broadly focused on BioNanotechnology, which involves design, assembly, synthesis, and application nanometer scale Nucleic Acid-based (made of DNA, RNA, or both) materials.
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Structure and function of the protein mitoNEET, a protein implicated in type-2 diabetes, Parkinson's, and breast cancer.
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Area: Police/community interactions, police militarization, and police accountability technology like body-worn cameras
Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Computer science education: exploring ways to create learning environments that permit learners to reach (and perhaps exceed) their potential.
Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: Interconnections between work, family, and gender across the life span
Department: GEOM
Research Area: Remote sensing, GIS, data analytics, statistical modeling, programming, enviromental science
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Synthesis of semiconductor materials and their applications in energy conversion (photovoltaic or solar cells) and environmental remediation, as well as electrochemical scanning probe microscopy studies of surface, molecules, and materials.
Department: Psychological Sciences
Research Area: Scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education
Department: Modern Languages and Classics
Research Area: Kanji recognition, teaching language, culture and perspectives, Japanese linguistics, developing speaking fluency, and translation
Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: Empathy, Reading, Gender, Educational Equity, neurosciences
Department: Biology
Research Area: Science Education
Department: Biology
Research Area: Antibiotic discovery from dairy farm-associated bacteria.
Department: History
Research Area: Indiana Artist biographies, Pioneer iron industry, Pioneer taverns, and Indiana pioneers
Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: Human perception, memory, and behavior in spatial tasks
Department: Biology
Research Area: Plant Systematics, Modelling trait evolution, Phylogeny, Bioinformatics
Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Investigating Relationships between marginalized communities and the ways in which they use entheogenic plants and fungi in the healing of trauma
Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Medical anthropology and women's health
Department: Biology
Research Area: Fish collections in the field, and macroinvertebrate collection and identification.
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Organic Chemistry/Physical organic chemistry/Bioorganic Chemistry
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: First semester chemistry students can lack experience with laboratory techniques and proper use of equipment. I am interested in developing videos to help these students better prepare for their lab experience.
Department: Biology
Research Area: Science Education
Department: Criminal Justice & Criminology
Research Area: Criminological theory; juvenile delinquency; bullying.
Department: Biology
Research Area: Our lab studies the cellular mechanisms underlying the development of neurons in the brain. We use the powerful genetic tools available in the fruit fly model organism to manipulate the serotonin system and ask how that changes intracellular processes, anatomical structures, and behavioral outcomes in the animal.
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Intermolecular Interactions
Department: Biology
Research Area: Our research lab studies how cells recognize and destroy dysfunctional protein molecules before these proteins cause harm.
Department: Applied Anthropology Laboratories
Research Area: Archaeology, Collections Management, Artifacts
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Organic Chemistry for reaction methods development (organic synthesis) and molecules with potential biological activity (medicinal chemistry). Specific projects have focused on the formation of carbon-carbon bonds and the synthesis of heterocycles.
Department: Geography
Research Area: Relations between history and geography of Peace Corps volunteers in Latin America
Department: Biology
Research Area: Understanding the cellular and molecular underpinnings of cardiovascular development and regeneration.
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Utilize medicinal and organic chemistry to understand biological systems
Department: Biology
Research Area: G-quadruplex nucleic acid structures and the cellular enzymes that unwind them with relevance to ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), dementia, and cancer.
Department: Mathematical Sciences
Research Area: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Statistics
Department: History
Research Area: The Indiana Synagogue Mapping Project (ISMP) is a survey of all the built-to-be synagogues across the State of Indiana. Archival documents need to be found to supplement the survey data
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Environmental Physical Chemistry and Surface Science
Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Data Analytics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning
Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Internet security & privacy issues, networked applications, and emerging technologies
Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: Understanding and predicting sleep habits using methods from Health Psychology and Applied Social Psychology. Recent work has focused on how attitudes, social pressure, and control beliefs predict college student sleep habits (e.g., Tagler, Stanko, & Forbey, 2017, available upon request).
Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Cybersecurity
Department: English
Research Area: African American Literature, African American Studies, Archival Research, Periodical Studies
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Research Area: Light variability of eclipsing binary stars.
Department: English
Research Area: Language learning, Coding data, Linguistics
Department: Criminal Justice & Criminology
Research Area: Policing, Death Penalty, Drug Use, and Criminological Theory
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Area: Policing, police training, police-citizen relations, public attitudes toward the police, crime prevention, correctional rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, and comparative studies.
Department: Biology
Research Area: Animal behavior, embryonic learning, social communication, and effects of anthropogenic environmental change on behavior
Department: Biology
Research Area: Microbial Ecology
Department: Environment, Geology, and Natural Resources
Research Area: Understanding of the biogeochemical and hydrological cycle with in the terrestrial ecosystem, and the exchange of greenhouse gases across the land-atmosphere interface and riverine fluxes across land-ocean interface
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: How metal and semiconductor nanomaterials can be prepared, how they interact with various molecules, and how they initiate chemical reactions when irradiated with light.
Department: Accounting
Research Area: Qualitative Disclosures, Textual Analysis, Informational Efficiency
Department: Department of Information Systems and Operations Management
Research Area: Dr. Kang's research explores the impact of communication on the success of new ventures, focusing on entrepreneurship and startups.
Department: Applied Business Studies
Research Area: 1) Marketing and consumer behaviors in the realms of hospitality and tourism and (2) applications of psychological measurement techniques in business areas.
Department: Applied Business Studies
Research Area: Social and historical aspects of dress and appearance.
Areas of interest: fashion theory, fashion history, and appearance management.
Department: Applied Business Studies
Research Area: Robots and AI in service industries and the policies for the regulation of robots/AI in industry.
Department: Center for Local and State Policy
Research Area: My research examines how low-income households make ends meet (livelihood strategies), and the impact of community-level attributes to facilitate or inhibit those strategies.
Department: Applied Business Studies
Research Area: Human resource management issues in the hospitality industry
Department: Educational Psychology
Research Area: Vocabulary learning, Reading comprehension, Spanish-speaking children and parents, Monolingual and Bilingual environments.
Department: Educational Psychology
Research Area: Promoting learning outcomes through the application of psychological principles in traditional and non-traditional learning contexts
Department: Special Education
Research Area: Updated resources, new technologies, documenting lived, personal experiences of those with disabilities
Department: Educational Psychology
Research Area: How do parents help children navigate challenging online learning tasks?
Department: Educational Leadership
Research Area: Exploring academic, professional, and personal development and support systems for educational leaders in national and international settings.
Department: Educational Psychology
Research Area: Interventions for academic underachievement; social-emotional aspects of talent development; gifted education
Department: Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies
Research Area: Early childhood teacher professional development, documentation, Reggio Emilia approach, technology integration, play
Department: Special Education
Research Area: Early numeracy mathematics acquisition, culturally relevant content, virtual manipulatives usage
Department: Special Education
Research Area: Expediting the novice-to-expert teaching curve in proactive classroom management strategies and issues related to special education law.
Department: Teachers College
Research Area: Socio-emotional interventions for helping students to deal with anxiety, failure and enhance academic achievement.
Department: Educational Leadership
Research Area: Studying restorative practices in school settings
Department: Educational Studies
Research Area: To identify better ways to support preservice teacher development
Department: Special Education
Research Area: Developing flexible programming supports that higher education institutions can implement to improve access, participation, and graduation of autistic college students
Department: Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies
Research Area: Dating, mate selection, courtship, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, parenting adult children, family stress (and about anything else having to do with relationships and family).
Department: Elementary Education
Research Area: Reading Comprehension in digital versus paper platforms, including motivation.
Department: Educational Psychology; Research Design Studio (RDS)
Research Area: Classroom Assessment; Instructional Design; Learning Technologies; Design Thinking; Teacher Development; UX/UI/QA
Department: Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies
Research Area: Parenting, Cross-Culture Perspective, Social development, Children, Adolescents
Department: Elementary Education
Research Area: Novice teacher induction and mentoring
Department: Special Education
Research Area: My research focuses on how practitioners can be culturally responsive when providing services to their Autistic clients.
Department: Elementary Education
Research Area: Technology use in elementary ducation
Department: Elementary Education
Research Area: Bilingual and biliteracy development of children, Elementary teacher professional development, culturally responsive pedagogy
Department: Honors College
Research Area: Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Neoliberalism, and Decoloniality