Faculty Spotlight

Timothy Otteman

Tim Otteman is an authority in the areas of sports gambling, sports administration and management, commercial recreation, and recreational programming. He also is a source on leisure activities, with an emphasis on games.... Read the Story

Mark Minelli

Mark Minelli is an authority in the areas of addictions, personal growth, and drugs and the athlete. He has studied about alcohol and other drug prevention programs and performance enhancing drugs for over 30 years. He is the author of... Read the Story

Topics covered: Personal growth, Steroids, Substance abuse

Alexandra Mascolo-David

Central Michigan University School of Music faculty member Alexandra Mascolo-David has performed and led workshops and master classes in Europe, Asia and the Americas. She has given solo recitals in Brazil, China, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Spain and the United States, including a New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall in May 2004, which received a favorable review in The New York Concert Review. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Peru and the USA and has completed five years of engagements with the CMU-based Orpheus Piano Trio. Read the Story

Topics covered: Arts and Entertainment, Music

Gary Dunbar

Gary Dunbar directs CMU's Brain Research and Integrative Neuroscience Center and specializes in the recovery of function after brain damage.He has published several articles and book chapters on pharmacological treatments of diseases that cause brain damage, including Huntington's disease, Parkinson's... Read the Story

Topics covered: Alzheimer's disease, Brain, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, Stem cell research

Lesley Withers

Lesley Withers focuses her teaching and research on nonverbal, interpersonal and emotional communication. Her research specialization is in the communication of embarrassment; she is one of just a few communication researchers in this area of expertise. Withers' focus on nonverbal... Read the Story

Patty Williamson

Patty Williamson is an expert on reality television, among other media-related topics. She is available to comment on reality shows, reality stars, media criticism, popular culture and more. Among Williamson's additional areas of expertise are audience research and the film... Read the Story

Topics covered: Cinema, Popular culture, Television

Rick Sykes

Rick Sykes is knowledgeable in almost every area of broadcast journalism, including news writing, editing, reporting and newscast production. He is the faculty adviser to CMU's award-winning student television station and has broadcast news experience in both Saginaw and Detroit.... Read the Story

John K. Hartman

John K. Hartman is a widely quoted authority on issues related to newspapers and online news, as well as the intersection of journalism and politics. He researches USA Today, free publications aimed at young adults and news readership issues. Hartman... Read the Story

Tom Kromer

Tom Kromer is an authority on service-learning programs that promote student learning through community service. One of CMU's first service-learning advocates, Kromer has made numerous presentations on the subject and works closely with Michigan Campus Compact, a service-focused, statewide coalition... Read the Story

Topics covered: Service-learning, Teacher education

Michael Stewart

Michael Stewart specializes in noise-induced hearing loss and hearing conservation. He can talk about industrial noise exposure, recreational noise exposure (especially firearm noise), noise measurement procedures, hearing conservation programs, and various types of hearing protective devices (HPDs).... Read the Story

Topics covered: Health, Noise and hearing conservation

Thomas Gehring

Thomas Gehring specializes in wildlife conservation and management. He focuses on developing and testing management strategies for wildlife species, and he studies predator-prey relationships and how to stop the negative impact on landowners and wildlife. His field-based research utilizes such... Read the Story

Topics covered: Science, Wildlife biology

Elizabeth Alm

Elizabeth Alm has particular expertise at the interface of public health microbiology with environmental microbiology. A large focus of her research concerns the microbial quality of Great Lakes beaches with a particular emphasis on beach closings and the role of... Read the Story

Topics covered: Microbiology, Science

Stephen Thompson

Stephen Thompson, director of CMU's sexual assault services program, is a national authority on issues dealing with sexual aggression, rape, harassment, avoidance and prevention strategies, behavioral analysis and profiles of offenders. He is the author of the book "No More... Read the Story

Topics covered: Sexual assault, Stalking and harrassment

Jason Taylor

Jason Taylor is an authority on American economic history, particularly the Great Depression and New Deal, and has a strong interest in contemporary U.S. macroeconomic policy. He has published numerous scholarly articles on the economic policies during the Great Depression... Read the Story

Topics covered: Economics, Minimum wages

Michael Pisani

Michael Pisani is an authority in the areas of international business, Mexico, Central America, Latin America and the United States-Mexican border. He has studied microenterprise development, micro-finance, informal sector and economic development. He is an expert on business in Mexico,... Read the Story

Topics covered: Cross-border business, Currency substitution, International business, Labor informality, Microfinance, NAFTA

Deborah Gray

Deborah Gray is an authority in the field of Internet marketing, e-commerce, Internet advertising and focus group research. She has done research on marketing online to adolescents and Internet marketing strategies and approaches. She is credited with writing the first... Read the Story

Topics covered: Advertising, Consumer behavior, Internet marketing

Philip Thompson

Philip Thompson is an authority on energy and regulatory economics. His research has been in the areas of residential energy efficiency, residential demand for natural gas, and oil and gasoline price fluctuations. He also can speak about microeconomics, industrial organization... Read the Story

Topics covered: Economics, Energy

Jeffrey Weinstock

Jeffrey Weinstock is an authority on popular culture, American literature and literary criticism. He is an expert on ghost stories and wrote the book, "Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women as a Form of Social Protest," which examines the... Read the Story

Topics covered: American literature, Popular culture

Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson studies crime and violence in modern society. He argues that big cities themselves aren't the real cause of crime and that historical evidence shows that past rural societies in America and Europe were many times more violent than... Read the Story

Topics covered: Crime and violence in modern society, Holocaust

Larissa Niec

Larissa Niec is an expert on parent-child interaction therapy, young children with disruptive behavior disorders, children's interpersonal functioning and child abuse. She is director of CMU's Parent Child Interaction Therapy Clinic, one of only five university-based clinics in the country... Read the Story

Topics covered: Child abuse, Counseling, Family life

Richard Backs

Richard Backs is an expert on psychophysiology - the science that links psychology and physiology. Recent projects have included monitoring how people respond to stimuli while driving a car, and research on older drivers and drivers with attention disorders in... Read the Story

Topics covered: Aging, Attention, Brain, Driving

Brigitte Bechtold

Brigitte Bechtold is an economic sociologist and an expert on the economic impact of minimum wages. She has served on a Congressionally sponsored minimum wage study committee and has written research papers on economic forecasting and women in the economy.... Read the Story

Topics covered: Economics, Minimum wages, Women's issues

David Gillingham

David Gillingham is a prize-winning composer of wind and percussion music and one of the top composers for band in the United States. He won first prize in the International Barlow Composition Contest in 1990. His compositions have been performed... Read the Story

John Robertson

John Robertson is an authority on the history and cultures of the Middle East, from the region's earliest civilizations to its recent history, current events, and impact on U.S. policies. He has taught many different courses, at both the graduate... Read the Story

Topics covered: Archeology, Middle East

Joseph Inungu

Joseph "Jeff" Inungu specializes in HIV/AIDS research, HIV and infectious disease prevention and cancer epidemiology.He has researched HIV infection in older adults, the factors associated with antiretroviral drug adherence among HIV-infected patients and the challenges facing health professionals who care... Read the Story

Topics covered: AIDS

Kevin Love

Kevin Love is an authority on employee selection and performance appraisal and organization change with over 30 years of professional experience and research in the area.He has conducted research in a variety of settings from law enforcement to manufacturing to... Read the Story

Topics covered: Law enforcement personnel system design, Organization change, Workplace management

Debra Poole

Debra Poole, an experimental child psychologist who specializes in child development and social policy, is a national authority on children's memory, children as eyewitnesses and forensic interviewing.She has provided training to defense attorneys, prosecutors, judges, law enforcement and mental health... Read the Story

Topics covered: Memory

Justin Oh-Lee

Justin Oh-Lee is a behavioral neuroscientist who researches cures and treatments for neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson and Alzheimer's diseases.Oh-Lee has over 10 years of experience as a preclinical neuropharmacological researcher in Parkinson's disease. His recent focus has been testing... Read the Story

Topics covered: Alzheimer's disease, Brain, Parkinson's disease

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