The College of Natural
and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) has numerous faculty members
who represent excellence
in their various disciplines and many talented staff members who support the departments and these faculty members. Research and position descriptions with contact information
for the CNMS faculty and staff members are provided for each of the four
departments in the following links:
Biological
Sciences - Dr. Philip Farabaugh, Professor and Chair
Chemistry
and Biochemistry - Dr. Dale Whalen, Professor
and Interim Chair
Mathematics
and Statistics - Dr. Nagaraj K. Neerchal, Professor and Chair
Marine Biotechnology -
Dr. Yonathan Zohar, Professor and Chair
Physics -
Dr. L. Michael Hayden, Professor and Chair
Welcome to the newest CNMS faculty, who are located at the Columbus Center in downtown Baltimore
Dr. Robert Belas: DoMB - Microbial Genetics
Dr. Chris Geddes: Director - Institute of Fluorescence
Dr. Keiko Saito: DoMB - Aquatic Microbiology and Ecology, Marine Aquaculture,
Dr. Harold Schreier: DoMB - Microbial Molecular Genetics and Physiology
Dr. Kevin Sowers: DoMB - Anaerobic Microbiology
Dr. Vikram Vakharia: DoMB - Viral Genetics, Vaccine Development
Dr. Yonathan Zohar: DoMB Chair - Fish Reproductive Endocrinology, Marine Aquaculture
Congratulations to the following CNMS faculty members on their promotions:
Dr. Philip Farabaugh - Chair, Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Philip Rous - Interim Provost
Dr. William LaCourse - Acting Dean, College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Dr. Kathie Seley-Radtke - Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dr. J. Vanderlei Martins - Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Dr. Tamra Mendelson - Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Tara Carpenter - Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Faculty and Staff Awards:
Dr. Matthias Gobbert, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was recognized as the recipient of the 2010 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Award for Excellence in Mentoring, and Ralph Murphy, Teaching Laboratory Technician in the Department of Biological Sciences, was recognized as the 2009-2010 University System of Maryland Board of Regents' Award for Exceptional Contribution to the Institution. At last year's event, Ramachandra Hosmane, Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was recognized as Presidential Teaching Professor, 2009-2012, and Thomas Cronin, Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, was recognized as the Presidential Research Professor, 2009-2012. Dennis P. Cuddy, the Manager of Administration and Facilities for the Department of Chemistry and Biology, was honored as the 2008-2009 University System of Maryland Board of Regents' Award for Exceptional Contribution to the Institution. Thomas Mathew, Professor of Statistics, was named as the Presidential Research Professor, 2008-2011, and Danita Eichenlaub, Associate Director of GEST and JCET, received the Presidential Distinguished Staff Award, Professional Staff, 2008-2009 at the UMBC 2008 Presidential Faculty & Staff Awards Ceremony.
Dr. Ray Hoff, Professor of Physics, was selected as a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. Dr. Hoff directs JCET and GEST, two collaborative NASA-UMBC research centers, and is recognized for his expertise on air pollution, climate and the atmosphere.
Dr.
Manil Suri,
Professor of Mathematics, who was selected to receive one of four
Wilson H. Elkins Professorships awarded for FY 2008 in recognition
of his work to foster interest and learning in mathematics among
K-12 students and the general public. Many outstanding scholars have
received this award,
which represents the first permanent endowed, university-wide professorship.
It was initiated in 1978 in honor
of Wilson H. Elkins, a former University of Maryland president,
and was expanded to include the USM family in 1988.
Dr. Robert
C. Reno, Associate Professor of Physics, was recognized for
his outstanding contributions to the education of graduate and
undergraduate students over his 33-year teaching career at UMBC.
Selected as the UMBC Presidential Teaching Professor, 2007 - 2010,
Dr. Reno was honored at the UMBC
Presidential Faculty & Staff Awards Ceremony on April 11,
2007.
Dr.
Jeff Leips, Associate Professor of Biology, was
selected to participate in the Geneticist-Educator Network of
Alliances (GENA), a project funded by a grant from the National
Science Foundation to the American
Society of Human Genetics and the Genetics
Society of America. Over the next year, Dr. Leips will work
with Lissa Rotundo, a high school biology teacher at nearby Baltimore
Polytechnic Institute, to develop and assess the success
of inquiry-based teaching modules for Properties of Inheritance.
Ms. Rotundo is an alumna of the 2004-2005 Teacher
Quality in Biology (TQB) Program at UMBC. The Leips/Rotundo
team will attend a three-day GENA workshop this summer in Bethesa,
MD and will then work on a high school curriculum piece for use
throughout the following academic year. Dr. Leips is one of only
12 geneticists, from more than 80 applications, who was selected
for the first cohort.
Breakthrough Science by UMBC Physics Faculty in the area
of
Active Galactic Nuclei
Dr. Jane Turner and Dr. Ian George, with collaborator Dr. Lance Miller
(Oxford University, U.K.) were awarded one of the longest observations
(500 ksec exposure) ever undertaken by the XMM-Newton satellite,
to observe an interesting "active" galaxy,
Mkn 766. The data have yielded a long-sought result, a tight correlation between
the strength of an emission line from the K-shell of Fe atoms (the strongest
line visible in the X-ray band) and the X-ray continuum flux that illuminates
the accretion disk. This long-sought correlation offers a breakthrough in understanding
the fundamental process of accretion onto a black hole (and ultimately the
co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxy.
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