MESA STATE COLLEGE
FACULTY & STAFF
SPEAKERS BUREAU AND EXPERTS GUIDE

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GEOLOGY

Dr. Rex Cole, Professor of Geology, Department Head of Physical and Environmental Sciences
Expertise: Energy and mineral resources; earth sciences; geology equipment; mineral and fossil collections
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Gigi Richard, Assistant Professor of Geology
Expertise: Surface water hydrology; water resources; human impacts on river systems; environmental river mechanics/applied fluvial geomorphology; GPS/GIS applications
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

 

GENETICS

Dr. Steve Werman, Professor of Biology, Department Head of Biological Sciences
Expertise: Molecular genetics - recombinant DNA; biology of amphibians and reptiles
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Tony Schountz, Associate Professor of Biology
Expertise: Hantavirus disease; immunology; genetics and biotechnology; evolution and science education
Media: Program presentation

 

HAZARDOUS WASTE

Dr. Russ Walker, Professor of Environmental Restoration
Expertise: "Sins of the Past: Cleaning Up Our Hazardous Waste Sites"
Media: Program presentation

 

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Dr. Jill Cordova, Professor of Human Performance and Wellness.
Expertise: Health and wellness issues for individuals with disabilities; corporate fitness; nutrition - weight control and exercise
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Keith Fritz, Associate Professor of Human Performance and Wellness
Expertise: The health benefits of incorporating physical activity into your daily routine
Media: Print; program presentation

Dr. Gig Leadbetter, Professor of Human Performance and Wellness
Expertise: Antioxidants; attitude physiology; exercise programming (strength and cardiovascular); general knowledge of exercise-induced asthma; all performance and exercise related topics
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

Dr. Steven Murray, Associate Professor, Department Head of Human Performance and Wellness
Expertise: Personal wellness; health concerns
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

Dr. Kristy Reuss, Professor of Nursing, Department Head of Nursing and Radiologic Sciences
Expertise: Community health; nursing; health promotion; disease prevention; complementary and alternative medicine; teen pregnancy; homelessness; public health issues
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

Cindy Thomas, Associate Professor of Nursing
Expertise: Health promotion; wellness and exercise; health care careers; heart health
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

Dr. Bette Schans, Professor of Radiologic Technology/Director of Radiologic Technology Program
Expertise: Radiologic technology; ethics; health care management
Media: Print

HISTORY

Dr. Steve Schulte, Professor of History
Expertise: American Indian history; American western history; environmental history of the American west
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Sarah Swedberg, Associate Professor of History
Expertise: American colonial history; American Revolution; U.S. women's history
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Douglas O'Roark, Professor of History
Expertise: Ancient Greece/Rome; classical archeology
Media: Program presentation

 

HUMAN RELATIONS

Dr. John Knappenberger, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Business management; communications; human relations; personal finances; stock market; languages; total quality management
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

Dr. Pat Schutz, Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Management; communications; ethics; human relations; human resource management; employee elations; organizational culture/structure
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Dr. Donald Carpenter, Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems
Expertise: Corporate planning for information technology; information requirements determination; database design; e-commerce and web design; data communications and network design and management; managing and motivating computer personnel; staffing IT functions; work design to enhance meaningfulness of work and improve motivation
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

 

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Dr. Tim Casey, Associate Professor of Political Science
Expertise: Current world events; international relations
Media: Program presentation

 

KENYA

Dr. Julie Barak, Associate Professor of English, Department Head Languages, Literature and Communication
Expertise: Kenyan literature; Kenyan politics and history; ethnic groups in Kenya; contemporary American ethnic literature; contemporary American women writers
Media: Program presentation

 

KITCHEN LAB / EDIBLE MICROBIOLOGY

Dr. Denise McKenney, Professor of Biology
Expertise: "The Kitchen Laboratory: Isolate DNA from Food;" edible microbiology
Media: Program presentation

 

LANGUAGES

Dr. John Knappenberger, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Business management; communications; human relations; personal finances; stock market; languages; total quality management
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

Dr. Maureen Neal, Associate Professor of English
Expertise: Language politics; language diversity (slang, dialect, register, Ebonics, Spanglish, ESL and acquisitions issues); English education and teacher preparation issues (disciplinary)
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Betsy McLoughlin, Associate Professor of Foreign Language
Expertise: Spanish literature survey; Medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature; Spain's epic poem "el Cid;" history of the Spanish language
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Andrew Gordon, Associate Professor of Spanish
Expertise: Spanish and American Sign Language
Media: Program presentation

 

LEARNING STYLES

Dr. Mary Zimmerer, Professor of Business
School of Business and Professional Studies
Expertise: Team learning techniques; learning styles and teaching to different styles; cooperative education Internships; small business management and accounting
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

 

LITERATURE

Dr. Julie Barak, Associate Professor of English, Department Head Languages, Literature, and Communication
Expertise: Kenyan literature; Kenyan politics and history; ethnic groups in Kenya; contemporary American ethnic literature; contemporary American women writers
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Esther Broughton, Professor of English
Expertise: Southwestern literature and culture; southern writers
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Matts Djos, Professor of English
Expertise: Modern and contemporary American literature; 17th century British poetry; research methods; literature and alcoholism
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Kurt Haas, Associate Professor of English
Expertise: Medieval literature, particularly Chaucer; the legends of King Arthur; Shakespeare
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

Dr. Barry Laga, Associate Professor of English
Expertise: Current trends in contemporary literature and film; 20th century American literature; experimental prose; politics of fairy tale; postmodernism; image/culture/ideology; critical/cultural theory
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Betsy McLoughlin, Associate Professor of Foreign Language
Expertise: Spanish literature survey; Medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature; Spain's epic poem "el Cid;" history of the Spanish language
Media: Program presentation.

Dr. Janine Rider, Professor of English
Expertise: Shakespeare; contemporary writers; women writers; issues in teacher education; liberal arts in the 21st Century
Media: Program presentation

 

MANAGEMENT

Dr. Richard Vail, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Management - production; operations; organizational theory; strategy; policy; international
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Pat Schutz, Assistant Professor of Business Administration/Management
Expertise: Management; communications; ethics; human relations; human resource management; employee relations; organizational culture/structure
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

Dr. Donald Carpenter, Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems
Expertise: Corporate planning for information technology; information requirements determination; database design; e-commerce and web design; data communications and network design and management; managing and motivating computer personnel; staffing IT functions; work design to enhance meaningfulness of work and improve motivation
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

Dr. Frank Markham, Associate Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Strategic planning; strategic management
Media: Print; program presentation

MARKETING

Dr. Tim Hatten, Associate Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Small business management; entrepreneurship (new venture creation); marketing; business planning
Media: Program presentation

 

MATHEMATICS

Dr. Cathy Barkley, Director of the Center for Teacher Education, Professor of Mathematics
Expertise: Mathematics education K-12; mathematics of the Maya; ethnomathematics topics; solstice markers of the Anasazi/Fremont
Media: Program presentation

 

MEDIA / POLITICS

Dr. Michael Gizzi, Associate Professor of Political Science
Expertise: Constitutional law and civil liberties; American presidency; American political thought; politics of cyberspace; media and politics
Media: Program presentation

MUSIC

Dr. Monte Atkinson, Professor of Music
Expertise: Choral clinics; guest conducting
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Calvin Hofer, Associate Professor of Music, Department Head of Fine and Performing Arts/Music
Expertise: Guest conductor; trumpet soloist; clinician / adjudicator
Media: Program presentation

 

NURSING AND HEALTH CARE

Jeanne Marie, Associate Professor of Nursing
Expertise: Pediatric nursing; care of children; child development
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

Dr. Kristy Reuss, Professor of Nursing; Department Head of Nursing and Radiologic Sciences
Expertise: Community health; nursing; health promotion; disease prevention; complementary and alternative medicine; teen pregnancy; homelessness; public health issues
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

Judy Goodhart, Professor of Nursing
Expertise: Nursing
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

Dr. Bette Schans, Professor of Radiologic Technology/Director of Radiologic Technology Program
Expertise: Radiologic technology; ethics; health care management
Media: Print

 

PERSONAL FINANCES

Dr. John Knappenberger, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Business management; communications; human relations; personal finances; stock market; languages; total quality management
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

 

PHYSICS

Dr. Gordon Gilbert, Professor of Physics
Expertise: Astrophysics: the big bang; life in the universe; galaxies; quasars; astronomy; black holes; high energy physics: fundamental particles; solar neutrinos; cosmic rays; physics foundations: relativity & quantum theory; cosmology
Media: Program presentation

 

POETRY

Dr. Randy Phillis, Professor of English
Expertise: Poetry workshops; poetry readings; magazine editing and production
Media: Program presentation

 

QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Dr. John Knappenberger, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Business management; communications; human relations; personal finances; stock market; languages; total quality management
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

 

PSYCHOLOGY

Dr. Susan Becker, Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Stress management; ethical issues
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Jessica Miller, Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Sports psychology; developmental psychology in childcare; parenting; cognitive development; areas of normal child and adolescent development
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Harry Tiemann, Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Industrial and organizational psychology; environmental psychology
Media: Program presentation

 

RADIOLOGY

Patti Ward, Associate Professor Radiology Technology
Expertise: Radiology
Media: Print

SOUTHEAST ASIA

Dr. Clare Boulanger, Professor of Anthropology
Expertise: Peoples of Borneo; human evolution; islands of Southeast Asia
Media: Program presentation

 

SPANISH HERITAGE

Dr. Tom Acker, Associate Professor of Spanish
Expertise: Anglos as seen in classics of Hispanic literature; the paintings of Diego Velazquez; theatre of the Spanish Golden Age; playwright Pedro Calderon de la Barca; Emblemata; lady fortune; and the Jesuit moralist Baltasar Gracian
Media: Program presentation

Dr. Betsy McLoughlin, Associate Professor of Foreign Language
Expertise: Spanish literature survey; Medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature; Spain's epic poem "el Cid;" history of the Spanish language
Media: Program presentation

Luis Silva-Villar, Associate Professor of Spanish
Expertise: Spanish in the U.S.; Spanish in the world; Spanish linguistics (syntax, morphology, phonology, history); language variation; language awareness in the media; Spanish heritage speakers; the interface between music and language
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

 

SPEECH AND DEBATE

Dr. Tim Casey, Associate Professor of Political Science, Advisor for Student Speech and Debate Club
Expertise: Current world events; international relations
Media: Program presentation

 

STATISTICS

Dr. Tim Novotny, Professor of Statistics
Expertise: Monte Carlo simulation; statistical software (Minitab); global positioning systems (GPS); sampling distribution software
Media: Program presentation

 

STOCK MARKET

Dr. Morgan Bridge, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Department Head of Business Administration
Expertise: Finance: stock market and investing; economics: wage increases; monetary policy; Federal Reserve
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

Dr. John Knappenberger, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Business management; communications; human relations; personal finances; stock market; languages; total quality management
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

 

STRESS MANAGEMENT

Dr. Susan Becker, Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Stress management; ethical issues
Media: Program presentation

 

SURVIVAL

Dr. Bruce Baurele, Professor of Biology
Expertise: Plants; fisheries; ecology; survival; whales; adventures in Antarctica, the coral reefs; Alaska; the rain forests; Australia and New Zealand; cruise ships and ecology tours
Media: Program presentation

 

WATER

Dr. Gigi Richard, Assistant Professor of Geology
Expertise: Surface water hydrology; water resources; human impacts on river systems; environmental river mechanics/applied fluvial geomorphology; GPS/GIS applications
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation

 

WRITING WORKSHOPS

Dr. Allen Learst, Associate Professor of English
Expertise: Writing workshops in fiction; writing workshops in nonfiction; readings
Media: Program presentation

 

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