Mentors
Current Mentors
Mentors are carefully chosen for each Scholar as they prepare to begin their master’s degree studies. The Bridges team and the Scholars’ home department work together to find a Mentor that fits the Scholars’ research interests.
Peter Bajorski, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Mathematical Sciences
Research interests:
imaging science, network communication, biomedical applications, high-dimensional data
Peter Boyd, Ph.D.
Lecturer and Graduate Program Coordinator
Center for Multidisciplinary Studies
Jess Cuculick, Ed.D.
Associate professor
Dept. of Liberal Studies
Research interests:
social media, public health, infant care, breastfeeding practice
Peter Hauser, Ph.D.
Director
Deaf Studies Laboratory
Professor
Dept. of ASL & Interpreting
Research interests:
Deaf cognition, sign language research, Deaf capital and psychosocial well-being, post-secondary science mentoring
Jeffrey Lodge, Ph.D.
Associate professor, extended faculty member
Gosnell School of Life Sciences
Research interests:
microalgae growth on wastewater for the production of biodiesel fuel, nutrient removal, food processing wastewater to decrease BOD
Corey Ptak
Lecturer
Gosnell School of Life Sciences
Research interests:
environmental remediation of soils in urban areas, sustainable urban development, reducing human health impacts from soils contaminated with heavy metals
P. J. Simpson-Haidaris, Ph.D.
Associate professor
Department of Medicine
Research interests:
role of fibrinogen in the pathogenesis of disease progression and resolution, vasculature in the prostate, breast carcinoma
Scott Smith, M.D.
Research Associate Professor
NTID/RIT
Research Interests:
Health literacy in deaf adolescents and adults
Tina Sutton, Ph.D.
Assistant professor
College of Liberal Arts
Research interests:
psychology of language, cognition and emotion, emotion word representation within and across languages, hemispheric specialization
Martin Zand, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Medicine, Nephrology
Professor
Dept. of Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Research interests:
B cell differentiation and antibody production regulation, translational studies of human immune responses to vaccination
Previous Mentors
Michelle Dziejman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology
Research interest:
Type III secretion system mediated pathogenesis of V. cholerae
Elizabeth Hane, Ph.D.
Assistant professor
Dept. of Biological & Environmental Sciences
Research interests:
factors that influence tree regeneration, calcium cycling
Michael Osier, Ph.D.
Associate professor
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Research interests:
data mining, metabolomics, pedagogy
Todd Pagano, Ph.D.
2012 US Professor of the Year
Director
Laboratory Science Technology Program
Associate professor
Dept. of Science & Mathematics
Research interests:
monitoring natural waters, multidimensional fluorescence with chemometric analysis of wine & grapes (Enology & Viticulture), intermolecular energy transfer in fluorescence spectroscopy, fate and transport of carcinogens from cigarette smoke in the lungs, chemical analysis of electronic cigarettes, development of novel instrumentation for the simultaneous detection of spectral data, characterization of fruit components for migratory bird studies
Kate Wright
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Research interests:
Cognitive issues in student understanding of biological processes, research-based tools for improving student understanding in cell and molecular biology
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