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