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New members of the Faculty - no matter how long they may have taught elsewhere - need an introduction to the University's expectations regarding teaching, scholarship, and service to the academic community.
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The faculty handbook for Bucknell University.
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Information about the faculty governance structure including minutes and agendas for faculty meetings.
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Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
College of Arts and Sciences
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Environmental Center
Film/Media Production Clinic
Griot Institute for Africana Studies
Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management
Institute for Lifelong Learning
Institute for Public Policy
Office of Civic Engagement
Office of International Education
Research Opportunities at Bucknell
Residential Colleges
Small Business Development Center
School of Management
Teaching and Learning Center
Writing Program & Writing Center

The Arts at Bucknell

Learn about the Presidential Arts Initiative as well as

Samek Art Gallery
Stadler Poetry Center
University Press
Weis Center for the Performing Arts
West Branch and West Branch Wired

Faculty Spotlight

Jeffrey Evans

Professor of civil and environmental engineering

"We have faculty that are circulating, researching and publishing with the best in America, while at the same time not sacrificing the quality of the undergraduate education we deliver."

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Eric Tillman

Professor of chemistry, Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar 2009-14

"Students can get involved in research pretty quickly once they come to Bucknell. It's not so much the exact area they choose, it's the experience of learning how to carry out scientific research that's going to help them be successful in whatever they do."

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Atiya Kai Stokes-Brown

Associate professor of political science

"You can't think about politics without considering the people on the ground -- the ones who are represented, particularly those who are often homogenized and marginalized."

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Matthew Amthor

Assistant professor of physics

"We really have to push the bounds of our capabilities to make rare isotopes in order even to be able to ask the questions that we need to ask."

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Paul Botelho

Assistant professor of music

"I shape sound. In my electro-acoustic works, it is akin to working with a canvas, which is time, where I create a trajectory or stasis or environment."

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JiaJia Dong

Assistant professor of physics and astronomy

"With physics, you aren't necessarily learning the set of tools that you are going to use in your future career. Rather, what you are learning is the methodology of thinking, the logic of thinking, the expertise of pooling different resources together to solve a problem put in front of you."

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Gabrielle Flynt

Assistant professor of mathematics

"When you are talking about clinical trials, missingness tends to be informative."

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Martin Isleem

Assistant professor of Arabic

"The Druze community lives in an identity crisis. They are between being Palestinians or being Druze. They live within a modern, westernized culture, but at the same time have a very traditional culture."

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Aaron Mitchel

Assistant professor of psychology, Swanson Fellow in the Sciences and Engineering

"We don't live in just an auditory environment. We typically have multiple senses interacting, with very important and very rich cues coming from visual input."

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Benoit Razet

Assistant professor of computer science

"When you design a programming language, you need to give semantics to it, you need to explain how the language is going to work. For that we use mathematics. We explain the behavior of the language using a mathematical formula."

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Kristy Schenck

Assistant professor of management

"A lot of people you interact with are not accounting people, so you need to be able to communicate with anybody."

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Allen Tran

Assistant professor of anthropology

"Learning how people in different parts of the world, near or far, think about something as seemingly simple as how to avoid getting a cold or when it's OK to cry in public, and how that organizes their behavior, unsettles our own assumptions and lets us reflect on why we do what we do."

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Matthew Watkins

Assistant professor of electrical engineering

"I'm looking at how to make the processor more power efficient, or how to get more performance from the same power so, for instance, you can record or edit your video on your phone while you're talking or multitasking in some other way."

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Christopher Martine

Associate professor of biology, David Burpee Professor in Plant Genetics and Research

"If you learn about biodiversity, you will find that there are many things, literally millions of things, left on the planet that we still don't know about."

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Alan Cheville

Professor of electrical engineering, T. Jefferson Miers Chair in electrical engineering

"When you say 'teaching,' I feel like that puts me at the center of a discussion -- and that's not what it's about. That's not why we're supposed to be here. We're here for the students."

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Judith Grisel

Professor of psychology, C. Graydon and Mary E. Rogers Faculty Fellow

"My favorite thing is to be in the lab, trying to uncover neural mechanisms of behavior with students, and sharing my appreciation for the complex interactions between brain and behavior."

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Kimberly Councill

Associate professor of music, Samuel Williams Professor of Music

"It's really wonderful to see my students transition into these loving, care-giving people in addition to becoming fabulous music teachers."

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Jason Cons

Assistant professor of international relations

"Our research experimented with a community-based strategy where we taught basic ethnographic techniques to a group of villagers in rural Bangladesh."

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Craig Beal

Assistant professor of mechanical engineering

"There is so much that can be done in the fields of control and safety. Plus, let's face it. Cars are cool."

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Collin McKinney

Assistant professor of Spanish

“Gender is something that we live with and experience everyday. It is not something we are born with, but what culture imposes upon us. It pervades different aspects of our lives.”

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Constance Ziemian

Professor of mechanical engineering

"It's an exciting time to be involved in research associated with manufacturing and materials characterization."

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Slava Yastremski

Professor of Russian

"The reality film creates is extremely important to us, as it exists in its own constant reality outside of our reality, which changes around us."

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Brian Williams

Professor of chemistry

"I think it is important for students to get that sense that they are doing or seeing something that was unknown. This permits them to stay curious and explore new ways to understand the material or solve problems."

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Katharina Vollmayr-Lee

Professor of physics

"There's nothing quite like witnessing a student having a 'Eureka!' moment to know I've really made a difference."

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Gregory Adams

Professor of mathematics

"I help students understand a subject which is usually and unfortunately taught as a body of facts to be memorized and not as a dynamic field of study that requires comprehensive understanding."

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Tom Cassidy

Professor of mathematics

"I am fortunate to work at an institution that values interdisciplinary scholarship and allows me to pursue two different research tracks."

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Christopher Magee

Professor of economics

"I enjoy working with students on their research projects because it feels like I am passing on the wisdom that I received from those who helped mentor me over the years."

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James Maneval

Professor of chemical engineering

"One of the mantras of the department is 'Results, not excuses.' I expect my students to pursue their work with academic rigor, and do a quality work of which they can be proud."

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Shara McCallum

Professor of English

"I love that I am able to contribute in different ways to Bucknell to help our community be a beacon for intellectual enterprise, artistic expression and curiosity."

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Alexander Tristan Riley

Professor of sociology

"Be conservative, be liberal, be wherever you want to be politically -- that's fine, it's up to you. But be the most informed person you can be."

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Mike Toole '83

Professor of civil engineering

"For something to be sustainable, it needs to be environmentally and economically viable over a long period of time. But it also means looking out for people who don't have a say."

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Emily Dryden

Associate professor of mathematics

"Mathematics and its study are not simply about numbers and esoteric theory, but also about the ability to reason logically and build increasingly complex arguments on a solid knowledge base."

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Charles Kim

Associate professor of mechanical engineering

"I always try to stress to the students that they're very likely doing things nobody else has done before."

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Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine

Associate professor of Russian

"A recent demonstration against Putin in Moscow, that drew 10,000 people, was organized and led by writers and poets -- literature still matters that much."

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Peter McNamara

Associate professor of mathematics

"The point of mathematics is that we're often not answering today's questions, but rather the questions of the future."

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Robert Rosenberg

Associate professor of English

"Contemporary English fiction has become wonderfully diversified, with a thrilling number of voices, all chiming in to capture the flux and interconnectedness of our time."

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Lori Smolleck

Associate professor of education

"We need to reintroduce the benefits of inquiry-based science instruction, which improves the knowledge of both the content and processes of science. That's win-win."

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Tristan Stayton

Associate professor of biology

"I didn't come here with an agenda of turtles, but this was where my work led me once I got here. It's always important that I supplement my work with rigorous and solid scientific study."

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Janice Traflet

Associate professor of management

"I derive a lot of satisfaction from helping my students become better writers and better thinkers."

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G.C. Waldrep

Associate professor of English

"In our present culture, awash as we are in sensory stimuli of every sort, attention is something we don't have natural access to. It's something we have to seek: a discipline, in the old sense of that word. Poetry is one way to cultivate and practice attention."

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Amanda Wooden

Associate professor of environmental studies

"I'm interested in how, when and why people engage politically about the environment, and I look at how political contexts influence environmental collective action."

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Mark Haussmann

Associate professor of biology

"An idea that has permeated gerontology for a century is that prolonged stress hastens the aging process. We're now at the exciting point where we have the knowledge and the tools to test that idea — and we're finding that it's true."

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Tom Solomon

Professor of physics and astronomy

"Discovery is thrilling. When you are teaching, you get to help people find that same thrill of discovery every day."

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Timothy Strein

Professor of chemistry

"I feel blessed that I get to the chance to work with intelligent and energetic young people, and with students who get a kick out of the same stuff that captivates me."

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Karen Morin

Professor of geography

"Every space we move through is embedded with all kinds of meaning. It is very important to understand how those spaces are created, what meaning we attach to them and how we develop as individuals through them."

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Carl Milofsky

Professor of sociology

"It is a terrific professional advantage for students to understand what they will be getting into if they go into public health."

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Hilbourne Watson

Professor of international relations

"The more you embrace the world, the more you discover things about yourself and help to build the infrastructure for global citizenship."

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Martha Verbrugge

Professor of history

"The gym strikes me as a wonderful place to look at daily life and Americans experiencing themselves as physical beings, but also learning about themselves as social creatures."

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Harriet Pollack

Professor of English

"The Southern story is all of our story, and that's important for students to keep in mind."

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Peter Morris-Keitel

Professor of German studies

"When students learn to analyze German literature, art, music and films, they also develop the tools to learn how to criticize their own culture."

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Janet Jones

Professor of classics

"I owe my shift toward environmental studies to my interactions with extraordinary people here who helped me look at what I was interested in from a different and a larger perspective."

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Rosalyn Richards

Professor of art

"Liberal arts students can learn to think more about what they are looking at by taking art classes. They often realize there is a lot they are not noticing."

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Barry Hannigan

Professor of Music, Ellen Williams Professor of Music

"Many former students I talk to are still playing. Piano has given value to them for decades and has continued to enrich their lives."

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Gary Grant

Professor of theatre

"Theater offers the opportunity of letting marginalized stories be told, giving voice to folks who don't get heard very often."

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Charles "Chuck" Knisely '75

Professor of mechanical engineering

"Having the Small Business Development Center at Bucknell provides us with a list of people looking for solutions, while giving students an opportunity to learn what's going on in the real world and how to solve real problems."

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Skip McGoun

William H. Dunkak Professor of Finance

"Magicians exploit certain cognitive processes to create their own illusions, so the idea is whether these same cognitive processes are being exploited in accounting."

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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, NEH Chair in the Humanities

"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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Wendelin Wright

Associate 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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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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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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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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Pamela Gorkin

Professor of mathematics

"The more people you work with, the broader your work becomes."

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Margot Vigeant

Associate professor of chemical engineering

"Soap dispels bacteria, but if you rinse, they come back and stick. It’s annoying."

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Elizabeth Capaldi Evans

Associate professor of biology and animal behavior

"I’m interested in how animals get around in the world — and bees are a good model for that kind of behavior."

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Chris Daniel

Associate professor of geology

"Understanding what happened geologically 1 to 2 billion years ago is like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle with only half the pieces."

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Andrea Halpern

Professor of psychology

"I’m trying to understand how memory works at the 'front end' as information is entered into our brains."

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