2024 | Faculty Promoted to Professor

38 OSU Faculty are Promoted to Professor

As Oregon's land grant university, Oregon State University is committed to educating, both on and off-campus, the citizens of Oregon, the nation, and the international community, and in expanding and applying knowledge. Candidates for promotion are evaluated objectively for evidence of distinction in their performance of assigned duties and in their scholarship or creative activity. The excellence of our faculty is paramount and we are very proud of the faculty recently promoted to the rank of professor.

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Kaci Buhl Professor of Practice | Environmental and Molecular Toxicology

Kaci Buhl, MS is a Professor of Practice at Oregon State University (OSU). She leads the Statewide Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP), working to educate professional pesticide applicators in collaboration with state agencies and NGOs. On the national level, Ms. Buhl is the Deputy Director of the Pesticide Educational Resources Collaborative (PERC), which creates pesticide-related videos, manuals, exams, and other resources for farmworkers, pesticide handlers, and licensed applicators. She studied Integrated Pest Management (IPM) at Michigan State University and previously coordinated the National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC).

 

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Alec Kowalewski Professor | Horticulture

Alec Kowalewski enjoys teaching a wide variety of topics at OSU, including courses on plant nutrition, irrigation and drainage, career development and turfgrass maintenance. Alec provides extension and applied research for stakeholders in turfgrass and landscape management. Since his hire his extension program has reached employees from 100% of Oregon public school districts and people from 25 countries. His program has also produced 67 peer review publications, and 18 Extension publications pertaining to sustainable turfgrass management. His research has been presented to peers 76 times, and he has generated $7,513,563 ($606,960 from federal competitive grants) for the OSU Turf Program.

 

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Cynthia Ocamb Professor | Botany and Plant Pathology

Cynthia Ocamb joined the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology in 1997 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004. Before arriving at OSU, Cynthia earned a B.S. from North Carolina State University, a M.S. degree in Plant Pathology from NCSU, and a Ph.D. degree in Plant Pathology from the University of Minnesota, and was a postdoctoral researcher at USDA Forest Service in St. Paul, MN. Cynthia is an Extension plant pathologist with research focuses on pathogen biology and diseases management for vegetable and field crops with an eye towards building resilience in cropping systems to the climate change disaster.

 

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James Peterson Professor, Courtesy | Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences

Dr. Peterson is the Leader of Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Professor (Courtesy) in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences at Oregon State University. He received graduate degrees from the University of Illinois and University of Missouri. Dr. Peterson has an extensive background in animal population estimation and modeling, and the application of decision theoretic methods to solving complex ecological and resource management problems. He is author more than 100 peer reviewed publications including the book, Decision Making in Natural Resource Management: a structured adaptive approach that received an honorable mention for the Prose Awards.

 

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Dana Sanchez Professor | Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences

Dr. Sanchez conducts research on native wild mammals, their habitats, and management. In her role as Extension Wildlife Ppecialist, she promotes sustainable management of Oregon’s wildlife through daily interactions with Oregonians ranging from Ask Extension inquiries and delivery of educational presentations and products to collaborative, need-based applied research projects conducted with public agencies, agricultural producers, and local governments and the communities they serve. She is best-known within the wildlife profession for her leadership in efforts to broaden equitable and inclusive participation among colleagues positioned in one or more identity communities that have been historically excluded and underserved.

 

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Vidyasager Sathuvalli Professor | Crop and Soil Science

Dr. Vidyasagar Sathuvalli is a Professor of Potato Breeding and Genetics in the College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, USA. Dr. Sathuvalli earned his Bachelor’s in Horticulture from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India and his Master’s and PhD from Oregon State University with specialization in Plant Breeding and Genetics. Dr. Sathuvalli’s twelve years as faculty in Department of Crop and Soil Science have been characterized by his leadership, creativity, collaboration and his sustained record of scholarly outputs and service to the potato industry and the University. Dr. Sathuvalli is a sought-after speaker whose contributions extend far beyond the USA. His highly successful potato breeding and variety development program seeks to find genetic and genomic solutions to existing and emerging disease problems in potato production, ensuring that sustainable production of this globally important source of nutrients and calories continues. During his tenure he has released ten potato varieties as the lead breeder and contributed to seven additional varieties as a Tri-state partner. Dr. Sathuvalli has published over 50 peer reviewed publications and generated extramural funding of over 5.5 million dollars. Dr. Sathuvalli is actively involved in introducing Tri-state varieties in other countries especially in India.

 

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Elizabeth Tomasino Professor | Food Science and Technology

Dr. Elizabeth Tomasino is a Professor of enology at Oregon State University. A Wine Enthusiast’s 2022 Wine Star Awards winner, Tomasino was recognized as an “Innovator of the Year” for her research on grape smoke exposure and smoke taint in wine. She has been involved in research projects for E & J Gallo, Yalumba Winery, Robert Mondavi Winery, Giesen Wine Estates, and Pernod Ricard NZ. Her current research program is at the interface of wine chemistry and sensory. Of particular interest, she links chemical compounds to sensory perception, exploring the many interactions that occur.  

 

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Jeewon Cho Professor | Management, Entrepreneurship, and Supply Chain

Jeewon Cho (PhD) is a professor of Management at the College of Business, Oregon State University. Dr. Cho received her PhD in Management from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. Her research focuses on leadership processes, cognition and behavior in information systems contexts, and peer mentoring in higher education/organizations. Her research papers appeared in leading peer-review journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, the Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management, Information and Management, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, etc. Dr. Cho has a number of proceedings and presentations in major conferences, such as the Academy of Management (AOM), the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), etc. Her teaching interests include leadership and cross-cultural management. Currently, she is an associate editor of Group and Organization Management and an editorial board member of Journal of Organizational Behavior and Information Systems Frontiers.

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Pauline Shilpzand Professor | Management, Entrepreneurship, and Supply Chain

Pauline Schilpzand is A Professor of Management in the College of Business at Oregon State University, and is the School Head for Management, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, and Supply Chain Management. Pauline received her Ph.D. in Management from the University of Florida. Her primary research areas include leadership, employee presenteeism, and workplace incivility. Her research has been published in top-tier outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. She is a recipient of multiple prestigious research awards including Academy of Management Journal’s Best Paper Award in 2011, the Saroj Parasuraman Award for Outstanding Publication in 2011, and an honorable mention for University of Michigan’s Center of Positive Organizational Scholarship Best Research in Positive Organizational Scholarship in 2015 and the Ascendant Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management (2016). She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Management (2020-2023). Pauline has been elected to and has served on the Executive Leadership Team for the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management from 2019-2023, holding the consecutive roles of PDW Chair, Program Chair, Division Chair, and Past-Division Chair. Her research utilizes a variety of methodologies including qualitative, experimental, field and survey-based, experience sampling, and narrative review.

 

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Inara Scott Professor | Marketing, Analytics, and Design

Inara Scott is the Gomo Family Professor and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Business at Oregon State University (OSU). In her role as Senior Associate Dean, she manages and oversees the academic leadership in the College of Business and oversees the achievement of the strategic mission and vision of the college. Inara’s primary teaching and research areas at Oregon State University include sustainable business, business law, and environmental law and regulation. Her research has appeared in numerous premier outlets, including the American Business Law Journal, Harvard Environmental Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. She is the Editor in Chief of the American Business Law Journal. Prior to arriving at OSU, Inara practiced law for almost a decade, both in private practice and as corporate counsel. Inara received a J.D. summa cum laude from Lewis and Clark Law School (2000) and A.B. summa cum laude from Duke University (1994).

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Kim Bernard Professor | Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

Dr. Kim Bernard is a Biological Oceanographer who has conducted research in a broad range of marine ecosystems across the world’s major oceans. Central to her work is a desire to understand the effects of climate change and other anthropogenic disturbances on zooplankton ecology, with implications for the structure, function, and services of marine ecosystems. Her research has made significant contributions towards understanding global trends in the response of zooplankton to climate change, resolving the physical drivers of zooplankton patchiness and dispersal to aid in development of marine protected areas, and identifying survival strategies of zooplankton in extreme polar environments.

 

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Kristen Buck Professor | Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

Kristen Buck is a seagoing chemical oceanographer in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. Her research is focused on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in the marine environment, with particular emphasis on the role of metal-binding organic ligands in the cycling of iron, copper, and nickel. Her recent work with the U.S. GEOTRACES program has contributed to advances in understanding of iron cycling in the global ocean across spatial and temporal scales. She has served in leadership positions in The Oceanography Society (TOS), the Association for Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), and the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) group, and as a Co-Chair of the biannual Ocean Sciences Meeting. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for Limnology and Oceanography: Letters.

 

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Melanie Fewings Professor | Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

Melanie Fewings joined the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences as an Associate Professor in 2018. She earned her Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program. Her work combines observations from ships, underwater moorings, and satellites to reveal the underlying processes that control coastal ocean currents and water temperature, including along Oregon and Washington States, enabling these processes to be more accurately represented in climate projections. She works across disciplinary boundaries, translating coastal ocean physics to solve biological, ecological, and fisheries oceanography problems and co-leading the NOAA Sanctuaries Task Force.

  

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Jennifer Hutchings Professor | Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

Jenny Hutchings became interested in Polar science in childhood. Leading her to sea-ice geophysics. Ph.D. studies under the supervision of Dr. Seymour Laxon, University College London, and a brief stint at the UK Met Office, developed her interest in sea-ice dynamics in forecast and climate models. After a post-doc for Bill Hibler, then soft funded researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, she landed at Oregon State University. Over 25 years she has worked to improve understanding of the relationship between loading on pack ice and its response, leading field campaigns to better constrain these ad-hoc models.

 

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Robert Kennedy Professor | Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

Robert Kennedy is driven by questions of how, when, and why terrestrial ecosystems change. Leveraging the long-term record of satellite imagery, he monitors and characterizes how forests, rangelands, and other systems grow, die, and change due to human and natural factors. He collaborates with foresters, natural resource scientists, social scientists, and land managers to translate these discoveries into better ways of appreciating and managing our world. Increasingly, he participates in international training programs to build capacity for the next generation of scientists and managers to make their world a better place.

 

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Pamela Sullivan Professor | Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

Dr. Pamela Sullivan is a hydrogeologist interested in understanding how terrestrial water storage and quality are influenced by climate, land cover, and land use. Her goal is to project Earth’s near surface fluxes (e.g., water and solutes) and architecture (e.g., hydrologic properties) — a process termed earthcasting — to examine how human and climatic perturbations will drive the evolution of terrestrial Earth. To accomplish this goal, her lab examines the interactions among vegetation, soil, and water across climatic gradients in varying spatial and temporal scales; making targeted observations of chemical, physical, and biological variables to support process understanding and predictive model development.

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David Blunck Professor | Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering

Dr. Blunck’s research focuses on combustion, ignition, radiation, and energy. His group conducts research which seeks to understand the science associated with practical (e.g. gas turbine engine) and natural (e.g. forest fires) chemical energy conversion. He is the lead PI on more than three-million dollars of funded research at Oregon State and has many national and international collaborations. He received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Blunck is currently the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs in the College of Engineering.

 

 

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Elain Fu Professor | Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering

Elain joined the OSU Bioengineering faculty in 2013. Her research focus is field-use sensor development with the goal of using an understanding of device operation to improve performance. Her collaborative work has produced over 60 peer-reviewed articles and patents. Her teaching goal is to engage students in life-long learning. She has co-developed multiple bioengineering courses for in-person and Ecampus delivery with a focus on active learning in an inclusive environment. Her service goal is to support her colleagues and foster collegiality through key committee service and conference organization/panel reviews, and she currently serves as Bioengineering Graduate Program Director.

 

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Geoffrey Hollinger Professor | Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering

In his MIME-based Robotic Decision-Making Laboratory, Geoffrey A. Hollinger’s research focuses on planning, coordination, and learning techniques for autonomous robotic systems. He received his PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.

 

 

 

 

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Tyler Radniecki Professor | Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Tyler Radniecki’s research focuses on biological wastewater and stormwater treatment systems with an emphasis on microbiome characterization to enhance treatment performance. He is also co-director of the OSU-Benton County Green Stormwater Infrastructure Research Facility. Additionally, in collaboration with a diverse set of colleagues, community stakeholders, and public health agencies, he has led numerous initiatives to create and implement wastewater surveillance programs for a variety of pathogens throughout the state of Oregon. He is a recipient of the 2019 NSF CAREER award, the 2020 OSU Beaver Champion Award, and the 2021 Oregon Association of Clean Water Agencies Outstanding Individual Award.

 

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Kevin Bladon Professor | Forest Engineering, Resources and Management

Dr. Kevin Bladon, with a Ph.D. in Forest Hydrology from the University of Alberta (2006) and a BSc in Environmental and Conservation Sciences (2002), is a prominent researcher specializing in the quantitative exploration of land cover and land use change impacts on hydrology, water quality, and aquatic ecosystem health. His research extends from hillslope to catchment scales, incorporating regional and state-level analyses. Dedicated to advancing forested source water management, Dr. Bladon enhances predictive capabilities in hydrologic and biogeochemical models. His commitment extends to fostering high-quality, trans-disciplinary collaborations aimed at addressing diverse water challenges globally, including municipal drinking water supply.

 

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Rajat Panwar Professor | Forest Ecosystems and Society

Rajat Panwar is a multidisciplinary scholar, specializing in corporate sustainability and corporate social responsibility in the natural resource sector. An OSU alumnus, Rajat returned to Corvallis as an Associate Professor of Sustainable and Responsible Business in 2021, following academic roles in Wisconsin, British Columbia, and North Carolina. Currently serving as the Deputy Editor of the journal Business & Society, Rajat has been a lead author in various global and regional reports and assessments conducted by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

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Miles Phillips Professor of Practice | Forest Ecosystems and Society/Sea Grant

Oregon Sea Grant Extension Sustainable Tourism program lead. http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/tourism He works with tourism organizations and communities and manages the GORP guide training and certification program. http://gorpguide.org He serves on the board of the Oregon Coast Visitor Association and Travel Southern Oregon Coast as well as additional conservation organizations. He came to OSU from Texas A&M, where he was Associate Department Head- Extension in the Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences. Before Texas, he was the Coastal Tourism Specialist with South Carolina Sea Grant Extension. Before that he worked as a consulting engineer with an environmental engineering firm in NY and MN.

 

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Catalina Segura Professor | Forest Engineering, Resources and Management

Dr. Catalina Segura, originally from Bogotá, Colombia, holds a BS in Forestry Engineering and earned her MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington (2003) and a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Colorado (2008). With a background in environmental consulting and postdoctoral fellowships at NCSU, she joined Oregon State University's Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management in 2013. Dr. Segura actively focuses on research, understanding the physical processes shaping water movement, sediment transport, and their impact on water availability, quality, and stream ecology, particularly in mountainous-forested headwater streams.

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Cathleen Crowell Professor, Clinical | Exercise, Sport, and Health Sciences

Cathy Brown Crowell’s research focuses on postural stability and human motion deficits in the physically active with lower extremity joint instability and chronic injuries. She works to determine mechanisms for injury and biomechanical characteristics that can lead to better patient outcomes.
https://health.oregonstate.edu/people/cathy-crowell

 

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Perry Hystad Professor | Nutrition and Public Health

Perry Hystad leads the Spatial Health Lab at OSU that examines the connections between place and human health and wellbeing. His research focuses broadly on environmental exposure assessment and epidemiology – with applications to air pollution, healthy built environments, and climate resilience. Perry is an avid collaborator and believes that the most pressing environmental health problems must be addressed with interdisciplinary team science.

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Shannon Lipscomb Professor | Human Development and Family Sciences

Shannon Lipscomb is a Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences (HDFS) and the Associate Dean for Research for Oregon State University-Cascades. Dr. Lipscomb’s research examines mechanisms for nurturing resilience with children and families facing adversity and/or trauma. She conducts both basic research on adversity and resilience, and applied research to identify and strengthen factors that build resilience within individuals, relationships, and communities. Dr. Lipscomb has particular expertise in early learning environments (e.g., preschool, child care) and early childhood development. She collaborates with community partners, collective impact initiatives, and academic colleagues. Her research provides evidence for prevention and early intervention to improve conditions and opportunities for children, families, and teachers, particularly those most impacted by inequities and trauma. Dr. Lipscomb teaches undergraduate courses in HDFS and mentors both undergraduate and graduate students in research.

 

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Jeff Luck Professor | Nutrition and Public Health

Jeff Luck's research focuses on the performance of health care delivery systems and public health agencies, measuring and improving the quality of care, and implementation of new management practices and information systems in health care organizations.

 

 

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Susan Bernardin Professor | Language, Culture, and Society

A specialist in Indigenous literary and visual studies as well as gender & the US West, Susan Bernardin has published widely on foundational and contemporary Native authors as well as Indigenous mixed-media, visual arts, and comics. A former president of the Western Literature Association, she is a two-time recipient of its Walker Award for best published essay in the field of Western American Studies and is the 2023 recipient of its Delbert & Edith Wylder Award for Exceptional Service and the 2016 recipient of the Beatrice Medicine Award, given by the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures.

 

 

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Kathleen Bogart Professor | Psychological Science

Dr. Kathleen Bogart earned her PhD in Psychology from Tufts University and joined OSU’s School of Psychological Science in 2012. Her research focuses on the psychology of disability, rare disorders, and ableism. Dr. Bogart received the first annual Social Personality and Health Network Diversity in Research Award and was named OSU Honors College Eminent Mentor in 2022. She has served on several boards including the American Psychological Association Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology and the Moebius Syndrome Foundation Scientific Advisory Board. She co-founded the Disability Advocacy and Research Network (DARN) for psychologists who have and/or specialize in disability.

 

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Hilary Boudet Professor | Public Policy

Hilary Boudet is a Professor and Associate Director of Graduate Programs in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. Her research interests include environmental and energy policy, natural resource sociology, social movements, and public participation in energy and environmental decision-making. She has published two books and over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles on these topics, securing over $4.7 million in research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, and U.S. Department of Energy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering and political science from Rice University and a PhD in environment and resources from Stanford University.

 

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Grant Jacobsen Professor | Public Policy

Grant Jacobsen, PhD, is a professor at Oregon State University in the Economics Program within the School of Public Policy. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California-Santa Barbara, where he was a fellow in the National Science Foundation’s Economics and Environmental Science IGERT program. His work has addressed topics related to renewable energy, energy efficiency, electricity pricing, air pollution, extraction of natural gas and oil, carbon offsets, climate change awareness, and voluntary environmental protection. He has published articles in leading academic journals, including the Economic Journal, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Human Resources. He is a member on the editorial councils of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and Land Economics. Prior to joining OSU, he was a professor at the University of Oregon and Director of its Master of Public Administration program. He has served as a program reviewer for the U.S. Department of Energy and as an adviser to the Eugene Water & Electric Board. Dr. Jacobsen’s research has been supported by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Consumer Protection Research Fund.

 

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Christopher Stout Professor | Public Policy

Christopher Stout is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. His research agenda explores how Black candidates increase their chances of succeeding in their bids for elected office. Second, what role do contextual and personal factors play in shaping the political identities and attitudes of underrepresented groups? This part of his research agenda is most evident in his books, Bringing Race Back In: Black Politicians, Deracialization, and Voting Behavior in the Age of Obama and The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Realignment, Demographic Change, and the Efficacy of Racial Appeals.

 

 

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Elizabeth Gire Professor | Physics

Dr. Elizabeth Gire studies the development of expertise in physics. She earned her BS in Astrophysics from UCLA, and her MS and PhD in Physics from UC San Diego. She did post-docs at Oregon State University and Kansas State University before taking up faculty positions at the University of Memphis and Oregon State University. Currently, she is the director of the Paradigms in Physics program, an international recognized physics curriculum. Her research focuses on the development of physics sensemaking practices and ability to use multiple representations to learn and do physics. She is an OSU Inclusive Excellence Fellow and graduate of the Oregon State ADVANCE Seminar, reflecting her commitment to diversity and inclusion in physics. Her teaching has been recognized by Oregon State University twice with the Frederick H. Horne Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching Science and the Elizabeth P. Distinguished Professor Award.

 

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Kimberly Halsey Professor | Microbiology

Dr. Halsey is an environmental microbiologist. Her research focuses on processes that control the flow of carbon and energy through the microbial carbon cycle. She investigates the strategies phytoplankton use to optimize their growth and interact with surrounding bacteria. She is an enthusiastic educator and was named the Excellence in Microbiology Faculty Scholar in 2021.

 

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David Hendrix Professor | Biochemistry and Biophysics/Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

David Hendrix received bachelor's degrees in Applied Mathematics and Physics at Georgia Tech. He got his PhD in physics from the University of California at Berkeley and did postdoctoral research at Berkeley and MIT studying genomics, RNA structure and function, and machine learning. He has been on the faculty at Oregon State for ten years, starting summer of 2013. As part of both the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the College of Sciences and the School for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering, the Hendrix Lab seeks to combine mechanisms of molecular biology and state-of-the-art computational techniques. The Hendrix lab develops new bioinformatics tools to address known biological challenges answer new questions about nucleic acid sequence, structure, and function. Hendrix and students in the lab employ a broad range of computational approaches, from machine learning to data mining, to investigate questions concerning RNA and DNA. In his research, Hendrix seeks to use computational biology and bioinformatics to analyze RNA sequence and structure, and to uncover new mechanisms of gene regulation, as well as validate known biology. Going forward, we seek to leverage high-performance computing to study three-dimensional RNA structure to gain insight into function. We develop advanced computational tools to design new noncoding RNAs and investigate functions of those naturally occurring.

 

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Thomas Sharpton Professor | Microbiology/Statistics

Dr. Thomas Sharpton is a Professor of Microbiology and Statistics at Oregon State University (OSU). He obtained a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University California at Berkeley, and subsequently trained at the Gladstone Institutes as a postdoctoral fellow. He joined OSU as a faculty member in 2013 and has since developed an internationally recognized research program that uses systems biology methods to resolve the gut microbiome’s influence on the health and behavior of vertebrates. His lab well known for developing computational and quantitative strategies for the analysis of microbiomic and metagenomic data as well as the integration of data across study systems ranging from fish to humans. He has published over 100 manuscripts, edits and advises for a variety of microbiology and systems biology research journals, and serves as the founding director of the OSU Microbiome Initiative as well as the Director of the OSU Microbiome Core Facility.

 

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Bo Sun Professor | Physics

Dr. Bo Sun obtained his B.S in physics from Tsinghua University in Beijing and Ph.D in physics at New York University. Before joining OSU in 2013, he was a postdoc scholar at Princeton University. His research focuses on the experimental cell biophysics in neuron science and oncology. In recent years, his lab has been employing the latest models in artificial intelligence to help understand the metastasis of solid tumors, and to construct biocomputing devices from neuron cells. His lab is funded by a number of federal agents and private foundations, and has provided abundant opportunities for undergraduate and graduate trainees.