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Faculty Spotlight

Anna Paparcone

Assistant professor of Italian

"My objective is to encourage students not only to simply learn and investigate more deeply into their own studies and preferences, but also to develop a personal, independent critical point of view that they can bring to class and discuss with their peers."

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Nate Siegel

Asssistant professor of mechanical engineering

"We want to come up with technologies that can be deployed in the marketplace today to replace traditional energy sources. We should be able to do it in a way that could compete with the types of gasoline prices you might pay over the next 10 years or so."

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Song Chen

Assistant professor of Chinese history

"We study history in different ways. One way is to see history as full of change. Another is to see history as continuous. What's going on in China is a combination of both. The past always finds way into the present, yet with new meanings and new looks."

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Jodi Black

Assistant professor of mathematics

"I am confident that every student benefits from learning to think mathematically as part of the process of becoming a more informed citizen of the world."

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Michelle Oswald

Assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering

"Transportation planning affects all aspects of civil engineering. By learning about green design principles, students learn to test solutions in an engineering environment with unknown factors at work.

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Kevin Gilmore

Assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering

"The sustainability of human civilization on earth is an ideal to which we should strive. Our work helps balance the need for equitable quality of life for all with an environment that is not threatened by human impacts."

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Heidi Lorimor

Assistant professor of linguistics

"Errors aren't random; they're systematic and constrained. Every 'error' is a window into the underlying mechanisms that are involved in producing speech."

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Claire Vaye Watkins

Assistant professor of English

"If you want to be an artist and a craftsperson, you have to be able to understand a piece of artwork as a result of specific choices made by the writer. The other side of that coin is I do want to maintain some of the magic and mystery and the sort of intangibility of the art-making process."

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Alejandra Roncallo

Assistant professor of international relations

"When people understand the relations between countries to be one of war, then when they come to power, that's what they want. But what if you start thinking about the impact of that war and start looking at the local scale, and you put people at the center?"

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Anna Kell

Assistant professor of art

"My whole idea was that the image of nature or decoration of nature actually removes us from an authentic experience with the outdoors. We get a false sense of connection from our surroundings."

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Melvin Gonzalez-Rivera

Assistant professor of Spanish

"I can read English and French, but if I cannot read in Arabic, for instance, people working on Arabic can give me a definition by using the mathematical tools and I can understand the definition of that sentence in Arabic even though I don't speak the language."

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Peter Mark Jansson

Associate professor of electrical engineering

"We stand at a very unique time in the electric grid's evolution and at the same time we stand at a very critical time for taking action on climate change."

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Linda Smolka

Associate professor of mathematics

"Imagine water flowing over a wall as in a waterfall. If you stare at the waterfall, you'll notice the flow tapers at the lateral edges where it breaks up into droplets. In fluid mechanics, we call this an instability."

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David Mitchell

Associate professor of political science and international relations

"When students get to the point where they can say 'I don’t know' – that's when they really can begin to learn and their minds open."

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Paul Macdonald

Associate professor of religion

"Most humans seek answers to deep questions about ourselves, the world we live in, and whether there is an ultimate reality or truth that transcends us."

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Sheila Lintott

Associate professor of philosophy

"I am most passionate about how philosophy can help people live lives that are more meaningful, more just, more careful – literally more care-full."

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David Del Testa

Associate professor of history

"I want students to have a good appreciation of historical narrative and the way that people have thought about history, that there isn't just one way to tell a story."

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Zhiqun Zhu

MacArthur Chair of East Asian Politics, associate professor of political science and international relations

"Not a single day goes by without China being covered in the news. China is already affecting our daily lives, and it is going to shape the future of the world."

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Joe Tranquillo

Associate professor of biomedical and electrical engineering

"Over the course of this challenge students learn that they are not trying to uncover how the world works, as they would in science. Rather, they learn the design process of transforming an idea into reality."

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Mike Malusis

Associate professor of civil and environmental engineering

"I am a firm believer that students learn best by doing, and that's how I teach. We work on solving problems together. I try to keep them interested and engaged by showing them the possibilities of engineering."

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Kevin Daly

Associate professor of classics

"If you pull an inscription out of the ground, you have in front of you a text that was written at an exact historic moment. That's as close as you can get to shaking hands with an ancient person."

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Matt Bailey

Associate professor of management

"The hospital is a very complex system. Moving patients is like moving chess pieces. We take that information and look at all the dynamics and interplay and put it into a logical form. There may be a hundred options, and you have to figure out what works best."

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Lea Wittie

Associate professor of computer science

"By the time students graduate, a language may not have been invented yet. But when they start a job, they're going to be expected to pick it up -- and quickly."

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Emily Stowe-Evans

Associate professor of biology

"The students will come out with more advanced skills that typically they would not get until later in their college career."

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Karline McLain

Associate professor of religion

"Ideally when my students leave the classroom, they have learned something about the history of Hinduism and its amazing classical scripture, but they are also prepared to travel to India, or just to interact with friends and classmates they may meet who are Hindu."

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Jie Lin

Associate professor of electrical engineering

"The biggest difference is that electrons cannot travel as fast as photons. In this world, there is nothing that can travel faster than light."

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Erin Jablonski

Associate professor of chemical engineering

"In my lab, I focus on micro- and milli-fluidics, or the flow of liquids through channels about the size of human blood vessels."

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Katharyn Nottis

Professor of education

"The difficult questions that educational researchers must address are ultimately broader than methodological and disciplinary boundaries. We must have multiple disciplines working together."

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Emek Uçarer

Professor of international relations

"It’s important for the EU to work with non-state entities and take into account the viewpoints of civil society, so that its policies are relevant to the people who are affected. We’re at a point where NGOs, international organizations and individuals want a piece of the decision-making process."

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Thomas Kinnaman

Professor of economics

"What I've found is that to really make environmental improvements that will last, there has to be an increase in prices of the things that pollute. We can try to educate the public, but in the end people will do what's cheap."

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Paula Closson Buck

Professor of English

"How we reconcile the self with what is beyond the self is something students struggle with all the time."

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Ghislaine McDayter

Professor of English

"For me, a truly successful class is one in which the professor and the students have developed between them a rich and complicated dialogue about the subject under debate."

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Rivka Ulmer

Professor of Jewish studies

"It’s important for students to be able to live with questions and ambiguities, and to have the capacity to draw their own conclusions. Bucknell’s undergraduate environment allows me to help them to do that."

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Christiane Andersson

Professor of art history

"I don’t know of any other artist of the period who expresses himself as clearly across the centuries. This is utterly fascinating to me."

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Maurice Aburdene P'98, P'00

Professor of electrical engineering

"We do a lot of signal processing in engineering. Why can't we apply that to biological phenomena?"

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Matthew McTammany ’95

Associate professor of biology

"We contribute over half the water to the (Chesapeake) Bay and well over half the nitrogen and phosphorus, so the nutrients (that those who fish) care about are coming from us."

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Wendy Wright

Assistant professor of mechanical and chemical engineering

"It is so rare that an entirely new class of materials like metallic glasses comes along, that just on a scientific level, it is very interesting to think about."

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Jennie Stevenson

Assistant professor of psychology

"There is an assumption in the field that estrogen modifies oxytocin in a clear-cut manner, and that is it increases oxytocin across the board. That is not what I'm finding."

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Seth Orsborn

Assistant professor of management

"If you want to do good design, it has to make good business sense, or else it is not going to happen."

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Kate McCoy

Assistant professor of sociology and anthropology

"I wanted to look at how this phenomenon of military outsourcing and privatization is happening, in contexts that are more perhaps long-range, perhaps less on the front pages and sensational. It may serve as a kind of window to what we can expect if this trend continues in places like Iraq and Afghanistan."

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Eric Martin

Assistant professor of management

"If your organization feeds people, you don't have time to sit back and analyze your organizational structure — people are dying."

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Brian R. King

Assistant professor of computer science

"In order to accomplish anything today, you must work with others who don't have the background that you have. You have to be able to complement each other's strengths and weaknesses."

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Will Kerber

Assistant professor of chemistry

"I'm studying model reactions but I want to find a place where they are applicable. It is not that useful to study a model unless there is a real-world situation where that model applies."

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Cynthia Guthrie

Assistant professor of management

"You don't want students with one-track minds. You want students who can talk to all levels of people about all types of ideas and be open to learning things that may not be their subject matter. That is one reason the liberal arts environment does well to prepare one for business."

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Ramona Fruja

Assistant professor of education

"The educational system is a significant gatekeeper in terms of further integration, in terms of the opportunities students will have. We need to work toward structures in which students of all kinds of groups have equitable access."

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Chipper Dean

Assistant professor of psychology

"Understanding which factors are most important for a given behavior could not only improve our theoretical understanding of health decision-making but also could tell us how to help adolescents make better decisions."

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Logan Connors

Assistant professor of French

"What really brought me to studying theater was how radically different the experience of theater-going was in the 18th century compared to our idea of a nice quiet night at the playhouse. It was an interesting period."

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Morgan Benowitz-Fredericks

Assistant professor of biology

"Students can come into my lab and say they are interested in behavior, physiology or molecular biology, and we've been able to craft projects for them, no matter what level of biology they are interested in."

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Mala Sharma

Associate professor of mechanical engineering

With grants from both the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Research Laboratory, she is studying a new nanomaterial and coating system to prevent and repair corrosion on military vessels and vehicles, including the F-35 joint strike fighter.

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Ned Searles

Associate professor of sociology and anthropology

From the personal stories and interviews he collected, he's weaving together a model of Inuit identity. Hunting camps, such as the one where Searles stayed, reflect an Inuit respect for silence and are a vital part of Inuit culture.

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DeeAnn Reeder

Associate professor of biology

"There are more questions than answers for sure with white-nose syndrome. As soon as we figure out one thing, it raises 10 more questions. Meanwhile, it marches on."

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Susan Reed

Associate professor of women's and gender studies

"Women’s and Gender Studies is attracting more and more men into the program. We want to raise the profile in terms of its ability to speak to issues that concern men."

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Felipe Perrone

Associate professor of computer science

"In doing science, you can't just use a black box; you have to know what is inside, understand it, and be able to explain how it works."

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Bernhard Kuhn

Associate professor of Italian studies

"I think that opera going high-definition can, if it's done responsibly, enrich the art form immensely. It can create a new boom of opera in the 21st century because it makes opera accessible to a lot of people."

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Kelly Knox

Associate professor of theatre and dance

"We have gotten so far away from an integrated mind and body that we don't necessarily know how to tap into creative responses and how to express ourselves. Dance provides that. It's a wonderful outlet — I've never seen anybody leave a dance class who wasn't glad to be alive."

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Michael Johnson-Cramer

Associate professor of management

"It is not just my job to educate a manager; it is also my job to educate a citizen, an investor, a consumer, a parent – to educate somebody who is going to occupy all of those roles and may see all of them as opportunities for making a change in the way we do business with each other."

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Matthew Heintzelman

Associate professor of biology

A better understanding of gliding motility in parasitic species could lead to medicines that prevent disease. In diatoms, Matthew Heintzelman is driven by scientific curiosity.

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John Enyeart

Associate professor of history

Enyeart hopes his students not only learn to think more honestly and profoundly about issues; he also wants them to recognize that nothing about history is inevitable.

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Isabel Cunado

Associate professor of Spanish

"Students discover that in order to understand today’s Spanish society, one has to look back at political and social events taking place at the beginning of the 20th century. The same is true to understand U.S. history, as many U.S. citizens fought in defense of democracy during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s."

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Amy Golightly

Associate professor of education

"I feel strongly that future school psychologists should be prepared to be child advocates. The reason school psychologists do what they do is to facilitate the success of all kids."

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Tom DiStefano

Professor of civil and environmental engineering

"I believe universities have an obligation to help our students become aware of the need for sustainable systems."

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Janet Knoedler

Professor of economics

"It is not the iron laws of capitalism, but the purposive actions of economic actors and the inertia of capitalist institutions that drive economic and social change, for better or worse."

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Geoffrey Schneider

Professor of economics

"Every place has a particular set of institutional structures. In the African context, one of the interesting questions is, given various models for development and given the unique cultures and institutions of African countries, what actually might work? Given that so many things have been tried in Africa and not worked, that's a question that has always fascinated me."

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Annie Randall

Professor of music

"When I was in graduate school, popular music history wasn't taught. That's changing, thank goodness. Popular music studies is a rapidly expanding branch of musicology."

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Nancy White

Professor of economics

"Which is more effective, public policy aimed at moving people from locations with high crime rates or poor schools, for example, or improving the location by spending more on lowering crime and improving schools? This research sheds light on these questions."

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Renee Gosson

Associate professor of French and Francophone studies

"Persistent racial tension in France is symptomatic of 'un passé qui ne passé pas' — a past that will not pass."

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Matthew Heintzelman

Associate professor of biology

With the help of modern molecular tools, Associate Professor of Biology Matthew Heintzelman is teasing apart the secret of how cells move about with no obvious means of propulsion.

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Virginia Zimmerman

Associate professor of English

"One of many reasons Harry (Potter) ultimately triumphs is because of his ability to understand the past and integrate it into his present."

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Timothy Raymond

Associate professor of chemical engineering

"Trying to study this thing on the nanoscale is really trying to help the world on a global scale."

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Molly McGuire

Associate professor of chemistry

"Having that opportunity to do that kind of one-on-one teaching where you are actually showing students how to do chemistry — not just learn about chemistry, but how to do chemistry — is really rewarding."

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Stephen Jordan

Associate professor of biology

"Those trees are going to be here for hundreds of years. Every time the students come back, they are going to go look at their trees."

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Carmen Gillespie

Professor of English

"The literature that most moves me are the works that help us to not be confined by the experiences we've had, but to imagine something greater."

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Ken Field

Associate professor of biology

"If these drugs are found to specifically block transplant rejection without generally suppressing the immune system, it would be very exciting."

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Michael Drexler

Associate professor of English

"In the last 15 years, we have seen the digitization of almost everything written in the U.S. from 1639 up to the 1850s. We can do full text searches of newspapers, periodicals, books, novels and poetry and use our imaginations to see connections that were invisible 15 years ago."

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Karen Castle

Associate professor of chemistry

"Modeling the atmosphere is very difficult because there are so many different interactions that have to be considered. It's like trying to put together a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. The problem modelers face is, up to one-third of the pieces of their puzzle are not defined very well. My group tries to work on individual pieces of the puzzle to help make the modelers' job a little easier."

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Stephen Buonopane

Associate professor of civil and environmental engineering

"Modern engineers would look at these old bridges and say that doesn't make sense. My approach is to look at it almost like an archeologist, where this is a historic artifact of engineering, and you can learn something about the people that designed it and built it. You can learn something about their culture — what they knew, what they didn't know, what they understood and maybe what they misunderstood."

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Paula Kazi

Assistant professor of economics

"My main interest always was in trying to understand how people's well-being can be improved."

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Richard Henne

Assistant professor of education

"I think that Bucknell is the kind of environment where if you have a sound idea and a lot of passion, the resources will be there to fully explore it."

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Bastian Heinsohn

Assistant professor of foreign languages

"I'm not interested in films that deal with the 1980s but were shot in 2008. That is a reinterpretation of history, which is interesting in itself, but what I'm examining in my research is what does this film tell me about Germany at a certain time."

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Jessica Newlin

Assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering

"There have always been problems, but bridge safety has been brought to the public forefront by the collapse in Minnesota."

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Kathleen Creed Page

Professor of biology

In Perspectives in Health and Healing, students are introduced to the holistic techniques of complementary medicine, including reiki, yoga, shiatsu, and herbal medicine.

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DeeAnn Reeder

Assistant professor of biology

"Bucknell has been incredibly supportive of my research, both my work in ecophysiology and in mammalian taxonomy."

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Eric Tillman

Assistant professor of chemistry

"The reason I wanted to come to Bucknell is because it has a reputation of doing high quality research with undergraduates."

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Sue Ellen Henry

Associate professor of education

Service-learning is "real in a way that goes beyond the theories and ideas in the class; there's actual application, relevance, and resonance when students see theory and ideas present in real social situations that matter to them."

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