Faculty Advisory Board
The next meeting of the Faculty Advisory Board will be Friday, November 13, 2009 from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. in SVC 5012.
Materials from September 25, 2009 FAB meeting:
Agenda
Attachment - Citizen Workshop
Attachment - "Lonesome George and the Battle for Galapagos"
Attachment - Faculty Travel Award Update
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Current Faculty Advisory Board Members:
Dr. Henry Alegria is an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the University of South Florida. He has more than ten years’ experience designing, executing and supervising research projects on the fate and transport of pollutants, including organic pollutants and other in air, soil and water in the U.S., Mexico, Central America, Canada and Europe. He has also conducted research on chiral analysis of pesticides to track their movements in the environment.Dr. Elizabeth Aranda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on immigrant incorporation and the emotional facets of migration. She is also interested in how race, ethnicity, social class and gender shape the process of immigrant adaptation. Dr. Aranda’s book, Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico: Migration, Return Migration, and the Struggles of Incorporation, was published in 2006 by Rowman & Littlefield. Her work is also published in the American Behavioral Scientist, The Sociological Quarterly, and Gender & Society. Dr. Aranda teaches courses on immigration, Latinos in the U.S., Race, and Sociology of Families, among others. She is currently working on a book about ethnic and race relations in Miami.
Todd Chavez, Director of Academic Resources for the Library at University of South Florida’s Tampa campus, received his M.A. in Library and Information Sciences from USF in 1998. His administrative portfolio includes collection development, including ARL collection initiatives, strategic planning and assessment, grants oversight, collection analysis and assessment, materials budget management, statistical compilation and analysis, shared governance advancement, and leadership in library fundraising. His research interests include applying bibliometric research methodologies to document and visualize scholarship in the sciences, integrating the library’s collections, services, and personnel into global, interdisciplinary scientific research through information portal design and implementation, and building non-traditional library collections.
Dr. Ann Cranston-Gingras is a Professor of Special Education and Director of the Center for Migrant Education. She holds a Doctoral degree in Curriculum and Instruction/Special Education, a Master's degree in Special Education and a Bachelor's degree in English Education. She is the Principal Investigator and Director of the federally funded High School Equivalency Program for Youth from Migrant Farmworker Families and the College Assistance Migrant Program. Her research and writing focus is on children who have been marginalized by schools and society including children with disabilities and those from migrant farmworker families. She is the co-author of the texts, Teaching Learners with Diverse Abilities and Rethinking Professional Issues in Special Education. Dr. Cranston-Gingras is a past president of the National Migrant HEP/CAMP Association and is active on several local, state and national committees working on behalf of youth from migrant farmworker families. She teaches special education undergraduate and graduate classes and supervises doctoral student research.
Dr. Thomas Crisman is a Professor of Integrative Biology as well as the Patel Center for Global Solutions’ Professor of Environment at the University of South Florida. Prior to coming to the University of South Florida, Dr. Crisman served as the Director of the Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands at the University of Florida. He has also taught or lectured in several foreign countries, including Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, Turkey, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Dr. Crisman currently serves on the editorial boards of several publications, including Southeastern Naturalist, African Journal of Aquatic Science, and the Journal of Limnology.
Dr. John Gathegi received a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. He is Associate Professor for the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of South Florida. His research and teaching interests include information law and policy, First Amendment issues, access to legal information for justice and government transparency, and information security. He is also involved in intellectual property and traditional knowledge issues. A native of Kenya, he directs the USF Africa Interest Group and is part of the Africa-US Universities Collaboration.
Dr. Valerie Harwood is an Associate Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of South Florida. She received her B.A. in Biology from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in 1983 and her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from Old Dominion University and Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1992. She is a leading researcher in microbial source tracking, discovering the sources of dangerous levels of bacteria in water. Her research interests include the nexus between water, public health and ecology.
Dr. Al Hine is an Associate Dean and Professor of Geological Oceanography at the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science. He has been honored by the Society for Sedimentary Geology with their Francis P. Shepard Medal for excellent in marine geology and has also served as a distinguished lecturer for the U.S. Science Advisory Committee (now Consortium for Ocean Leadership). Dr. Hine’s research includes studying the geologic origins and evolution of submerged ancient shorelines, ancient and current reefs and barrier islands. His recent work includes scientific ocean drilling and work surveying the sea floor using high-resolution seismic reflection, side-scan sonar profiling and remotely-operated vehicles. His research takes place in the waters around Florida and in the Caribbean.
Dr. John Jermier is a Professor in the Department of Management and Organization at the University of South Florida College of Business Administration. He also holds an affiliate professor appointment on USF's faculty of Environmental Science and Policy and is past chair of the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management. In addition to acting as co-editor of Organization & Environment, he serves on the Editorial Review Boards of Human Relations, Organization, Organization Science, Leadership Quarterly, Leadership, and the Journal of Workplace Rights. Most of his research has focused on the philosophy and social theory underwriting organizational studies with special emphasis on research methodology. His current research is focused on the greening of organizations and on green energy/technology.
Dr. Lynn McBrien is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Social Foundations in the College of Education at the University of South Florida. She received her doctorate in Educational Studies from Emory University in May, 2005, where she was the 2004 recipient of the university’s Humanitarian Award, given to students who demonstrate exemplary service in social justice. Dr. McBrien’s service and much of her research focuses on resettled refugee students and their families in the United States. She has explored the connection between discrimination and academic motivation in adolescent refugee girls. Currently she is working on projects with refugee youth in the Tampa Bay area.
Dr. Jim Mihelcic is a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and a State of Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar at the University of South Florida. Dr. Mihelcic is a past President of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) and is a recipient of the AEESP-Wiley Interscience Award for Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Engineering & Science Education. He has also received several teaching awards. Dr. Mihelcic is also a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board Environmental Engineering Committee and a Board Certified Member of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE). Dr. Mihelcic’s teaching and research interests are in green engineering, sustainable development, reform of engineering education, and global water/sanitation issues. He founded the very first Master’s International Peace Corps Program in 1997 and now directs such a program at the University of South Florida. He is the lead author of three textbooks on environmental engineering. He has studied environmental policy as an AAAS-U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Fellow and traveled extensively in the developing world to conduct research and work on development issues related to water, sanitation and global health.
Dr. Fraser Ottanelli is Chair and Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida. His specialties include the U.S. radical experience, labor, migration and Italian studies. He received his Ph.D. in Modern European History from Syracuse University in 1987 and has taught previously at the Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot and Université d’Artois in France.
Dr. Nancy Romero-Daza is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She also holds an M.A. in Linguistics and a B.A. in Modern Languages from Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. Her research areas include HIV/AIDS, women’s health, health problems in the inner city, infant mortality, drug abuse and commercial sex in the U.S. as well as Costa Rica and the Southern Africa regions of Basotho and Lesotho.
Dr. Wade Weast became the Director of the School of Music at the University of South Florida in July 2003. He holds a doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Masters of music from the Manhattan School of Music, with additional study at the Tanglewood Institute and Columbia University. While living in New York City, he performed regularly with the New Haven Symphony, New York City Opera, American Symphony Orchestra, and on Broadway. As a collaborative musician, he has performed with a diverse group of artists including the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, New York City Ballet, Natalie Cole, and the rock group YES. As a soloist, Dr. Weast has performed throughout the United States and in Europe with his trumpet-organ duo ensemble, Baroque Consort, and received praise for his performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #2 at the Bach and Beyond Festival.
Dr. Yiliang Zhu is a Ph.D. Professor of Biostatistics as well as the Director of both the Biostatistics Ph.D. Program and Center for Collaborative Research at the University of South Florida. His research interests include health risk assessment, exposure to environmental contaminants and health consequences, and evaluation of healthcare systems and outcomes. Dr. Zhu’s research has spanned the globe including China, India, Pakistan and Egypt. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Toronto in 1992.