Colleges: Arts and Letters | Business | Education and Psychology | Health | Science and Technology

Departments in this College: Administration of Justice | Biology | Chemistry| Economic and Workforce Development | Engineering Technology | Geography | Geology | Math | Marine Sciences | Physics | Polymer Science

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Rex Gandy
Department	Physics
Title	Professor and Dean
Phone	O 266-4883
E-mail	rex.gandy@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Plasma physics, nuclear fusion
Research Areas	Magnetic fusion

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Stephen L. Mallory
Department	Criminal Justice
Title	Associate Professor
Phone	O 266-4511
E-mail	stephen.mallory@usm.edu
Degrees
Expertise	Law enforcement
Research Areas	Organized crime, statistics, drug enforcement, administration of justice, informants, sexual harassment, criminal investigation

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Michael Clay Smith
Department	Criminal Justice
Title	Professor/Director of Graduate Studies
Phone	O 266-4509 H 264-2906
E-mail	michael.smith@usm.edu
Degrees	Ed.D.
Expertise	Criminal trials and security operations
Research Areas	Crime prevention

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Alan Thompson
Department	Criminal Justice
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-6048
E-mail	alan.thompson@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Law enforcement, policing police policy and practice civil liability, police use of force, pursuits, police corruption, undercover operations, police administration, community policing, and police-community relations.
Research Areas

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Lisa S. Nored
Department	Criminal Justice
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-4509 H 266-7849
E-mail	lisa.nored@usm.edu
Degrees	JD (Ph.D. in progress)
Expertise	Juvenile justice, child welfare, child abuse, neglect
Research Areas	Child abuse related homicide; youth court practice in Mississippi, general legal, criminal law, and procedure

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	William Banrs Tayler
Department	Criminal Justice
Title	Professor
Phone	O 266-4509 H 79O 266-3670
E-mail	willlse74@msn.com
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Criminal jurisprudence, history of criminal institutions, political economy of criminal policy
Research Areas	Mississippi penal system, the state penitentiary at Parchment

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	David C. Beckett
Department	Biological Sciences
Title	Associate Professor
Phone	O 266-4378 H 268-3553
E-mail	david.beckett@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Freshwater biology
Research Areas	Ecology of large rivers, ecology of bats, cave biology

Will give an on-camera interview?	No
Name	RD Ellendor
Department	Biological Science
Title	Professor
Phone	O 266-4720
E-mail	rudolph.ellendor@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Microbiology/molecular biology
Research Areas	Environmental microbiology

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Carl Qualls
Department	Biological Sciences
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-6906
E-mail	carl.qualls@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Herpetology, ecology, evolution of amphibians and reptiles
Research Areas	Reproductive ecology, life-history evolution, and conservation of reptiles, conservation biology; natural history and ecology of southeastern ecosystems

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Mohamed Elasri
Department	Biological Sciences
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-6916 H 579-8477
E-mail	mohamed.elasri@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Microbiology/Pathogenic bacteria, microbial genetics
Research Areas	Regulation of virulence factors in path

Will give an on-camera interview?	No
Name	Wail Mostafa Hassan
Department	Biological Sciences
Title	Visiting instructor/lab coordinator
Phone	O 266-5796 H 266-3406
E-mail	wail.hassan@usm.edu
Degrees	B.S.
Expertise	General, clinical, environmental microbiology
Research Areas	Bacterial source tracking, cell proliferation, differentiation n gastric mucosa

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Newton C. Fawcett
Department	Chemistry and Biochemistry
Title	Professor
Phone	O 266-4703
E-mail	newton.fawcett@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Biosensors-Corrosion
Research Areas	Biosensors for DNA and corrosion consultant

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	John Pojman
Department	Chemistry and Biochemistry
Title	Professor
Phone	(O) 266-5035 (H) (504) 296-7224
E-mail	john@pojman.com
Degrees
Expertise	Physical chemistry and microgravity research
Research Areas	oscillating reactions, self-organizing chemical systems, microgravity research, polymer processing in space, thermodynamics of evolution

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Steven A. Stevenson
Department	Chemistry and Biochemistry
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-5142
E-mail	steven.stevenson@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Nanomaterials, Separation Science
Research Areas	Nanotechnology, nanomaterials, chromatography, separation science, organic synthesis of new pharmaceuticals (X-Ray, MRI contrast agents) using metallic nitride nanoclusters

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	David L. Wertz
Department	Chemistry and Biochemistry
Title	Professor
Phone	O 266-4702 H 268-3354
E-mail	david.wertz@usm.edu
Degrees
Expertise	Materials analysis, environmental chemistry, energy chemistry
Research Areas	Processing scrap tires into fuels, elemental analysis of soil, sediments, and vegetation, materials analysis of new high tech polymers

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Ken Malone
Department	Economic and Workforce Development
Title	Chair
Phone	O 266-4736
E-mail	ken.malone@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Technology development, commercializing new technology, economic development, workforce development, university and business joint ventures, downtown redevelopment
Research Areas	Commercializing university technology and technology-based economic development

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	David A. Marchman
Department	Engineering Technology
Title	Professor
Phone	O 266-5402
E-mail	David.Marchman@usm.edu
Degrees	MBC
Expertise	Construction scheduling, estimating, management, safety, education and training
Research Areas	Same as above plus transportation systems and safety

Will give an on-camera interview?	Maybe
Name	Ehsan Sheybani (Y)
Department	Engineering Technology
Title
Phone	O 266-5948
E-mail	ehsan.sheybani@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Telecommunication and networking digital signal processing
Research Areas	Biomedicine, Telemedicine, signal processing (speech, video, data, and image.) distance learning, oceanography and marine sciences.

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Tulio Sulbaran
Department	Engineering Technology
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-6419
E-mail	tulio.sulbaran@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Engineering education and training, virtual reality, construction management, estimating and scheduling, and intelligent transportation system
Research Areas	Same as above

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	J.O. Joby Bass
Department	Geography
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-4732 H 266-7654
E-mail	joby@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Cultural geography including: landscape studies, perception, and change, ethnicity, Latin America, United States South, and human-environmental relationships
Research Areas	Ethnicity and ethnic interactions

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Clifton Dixon
Department	Geography
Title	Professor and Chair
Phone	O 266-4729
E-mail	c.dixon@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Cultural and environmental geography, tropical Central America, tropical deforestation, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, agricultural ecosystems, hurricane impacts, biogeography, and coastal zone management tourism (development, ecotourism, and environmental impacts)
Research Areas	Settlements and changing land use patterns in Central America, spread of palm diseases in Central America, and hurricane impacts along the Caribbean shores

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Carl A. “Andy” Reese
Department	Geography
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-6486 H 266-0817
E-mail	carl.reese@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Biogeography, pale-ecology, the central Andes region of South America, and palynology
Research Areas	Reconstructing past environments using pollen recovered from ice cores taken in the high-central Andes of South America

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	David Cochran
Department	Geography
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-6014  H 310-9107
E-mail	david.cochran@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D. (2004-expected)
Expertise	Cultural geography and rabey, Latin American regional specialization, tropical land use, forest management, and geographic information technologies
Research Areas	Protected area conservation, tropical agriculture and forestry, Rio Platano biosphere reserves

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Jerry Griffith
Department	Geography
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-5350 H 261-1033
E-mail	griffith@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Remote sensing, landscape ecology, and environmental geography
Research Areas	Examining changes in land use and historic satellite imagery, using satellite imagery to characterize landscapes, then relate it to water quality, wetlands, and other general environmental issues

Will give an on-camera interview?	Maybe
Name	Gail Russell
Department	Geology
Title	Professor and Chair
Phone	O 266-4007 H 264-5009
E-mail	gail.russell@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Geochemistry, science education
Research Areas

Will give an on-camera interview?
Name	Edith Adan-Bante
Department	Mathematics
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O (228) 867-2645
E-mail	edith.bante@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Algebra, combinatorics, calculus
Research Areas

Will give an on-camera interview?	Maybe
Name	Beverly Jan Davis
Department	Mathematics
Title	Instructor
Phone	O 266-4304 H 264-1208
E-mail	jan.davis@usm.edu
Degrees	M.S.
Expertise	Pre-calculus, applied calculus
Research Areas

Will give an on-camera interview?	Maybe
Name	Charlotte A. Brunner
Department	Marine Science
Title	Professor
Phone	O (228) 688-3402
E-mail	charlotte.brunner@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Geological oceanography, marine micropaleontology, paleo-environments, biostratigraphy
Research Areas

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Steven E. Lohrenz
Department	Marine Science
Title	Professor and Chair
Phone	O (228) 688-3177
E-mail	Steven.Lohrenz@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D. in Oceanography
Expertise	Phytoplankton physiology and ecology, bio-optics and reomote sensing, nutrient cycling, biogeochemistry of carbon and other elements
Research Areas	Phytoplankton primary production and their role in elemental cycling, ecology of harmful algal blooms, detection and monitoring of harmful algal blooms, air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide in coastal waters, biological-physical interactions in continental margins

Will give an on-camera interview?	Maybe
Name	Robin Overstreet
Department	Coastal Sciences
Title	Professor
Phone	O (228) 872-4243 H (228) 875-7912
E-mail	robin.overstreet@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Parasites and disease of aquatic animals
Research Areas	Ecology, life histories, pathology, systematics, and host-parasite relationships

Will give an on-camera interview?	No
Name	Vladimir Kamenkovich
Department	Marine Science
Title	Professor
Phone	O (228) 688-3091 H (985) 688-3091
E-mail	vladimir.kamenkovich@usm.edu
Degrees	Doctor of Science
Expertise	Large scale ocean circulation and coastal dynamics
Research Areas	Same

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Jeffrey M. Lotz
Department	Coastal Sciences
Title	Professor
Phone	O (228) 872-4247
E-mail	Jeff.Lotz@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph. D
Expertise	Diseases of Marine Organisms, Marine Aquaculture
Research Areas	Shrimp Aquaculture, Pathology of Shrimp Disease, Ecology and Epidemiology of Crustacean Infectious Diseases

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Cynthia A. Moncreiff
Department	Coastal Sciences
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O (228) 872-4260
E-mail	cynthia.moncreiff@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Seagrass ecology/coastal marsh ecology, harmful algae, and food web dynamics
Research Areas	Harmful algal bloom monitoring; salt marsh plant (native) propagation and salt marsh restoration; mapping of seagrass, and coastal ecosystem food webs

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Alan Shiller
Department	Marine Science
Title	Professor
Phone	O (228) 688-1178
E-mail	alan.shiller@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D. in Oceanography
Expertise	Geochemistry of natural waters and trace element geochemistry
Research Areas	Dissolved metals in rivers, including Mississippi river, estuarine chemistry, dissolved metals in seawater, oceanography, global system

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Lawrence R. Mead
Department	Physics
Title	Professor of Physics/Mathematics
Phone	O 266-4937
E-mail	lawrence.mead@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Quantum physics, mathematical physics, astrophysics
Research Areas	Galactic astrophysics, quantum theory, and information theory techniques

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	W.L. Jarrett
Department	Polymer Science and Engineering
Title
Phone	O 266-4551 H 261-3972
E-mail	william.jarrett@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	NMR Spectrospy
Research Areas	Polymer characterization

Will give an on-camera interview?	No Response
Name	Joshua Otaigbe
Department	Polymer Science and Engineering
Title	Associate Professor
Phone	O 266-5596
E-mail
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Polymer science and engineering
Research Areas	Polymer science and engineering, materials science, composites

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	James W. Rawlins
Department	School of Polymers and High Performance Materials
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-4781
E-mail	ajmes.rawlins@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D., Polymer Scince and Engineering
Expertise	Coatings
Research Areas	Protective and decorative coatings with an emphasis on environmentally friendly and emerging technologies; polymer design for thermosetting systems; polymer-coated surfaces; polymer interpenetrating networks; compatible and incompatible blending in crosslinked polymers systems; forensic analysis of polymers, coatings, adhesvies, fibers, and films; structure property-relationships with crosslinked polymer systems; raw material development from natural and renewable resources; chemical and biological agent permeablilty with crosslinked systems; and intelligent and respnsive polymer systems.

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Robson F. Storey
Department	Polymers and High Performance Materials
Title	Professor/
Phone	O 266-4879 H 268-7345
E-mail	robson.storey@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Polymer chemistry, polymer properties, and polymer applications
Research Areas	Biomedical biodegradable polymers, and cationic chain polymaritation

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Sarah E. Morgan
Department	Polymer Science and Engineering
Title	Associate Professor
Phone	O 266-5296 H (228) 466-9021
E-mail
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Polymer blends and surfaces
Research Areas	Analysis of surface properties of biopolymers, and high performance polymer blends and composites

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Oliver Smith
Department	School of Polymers and High Performance Materials
Title
Phone	O 266-4781 H 582-7983
E-mail	oliver.smith@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Coatings and latexes
Research Areas

Departments in this College: Administration of Justice | Biology | Chemistry | Engineering Technology | Geography | Geology | Math | Marine Sciences | Physics | Polymer Science

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