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Deborah Padgett is a Professor at NYU Silver. She is internationally known for her mentorship and advocacy of qualitative and mixed methods in research. She is the editor of The Handbook of Ethnicity, Aging, and Mental Health (1995) and The Qualitative Research Experience (2004), author of Qualitative Methods in Social Work Research (3rd ed., 2016) and Qualitative and Mixed Methods in Public Health (2012), and co-author of Program Evaluation (6th ed., 2015). This expertise led to her appointment to an Institute of Medicine panel examining veterans’ mental health (2012-2017).
Dr. Padgett’s book Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Changing Systems and Transforming Lives (2016, Oxford University Press) (with co-authors Benjamin Henwood and Sam Tsemberis) documents the rise of a ‘paradigm’ shifting approach to addressing homelessness in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Padgett has lectured widely on the topic in Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Canada, and India.
Dr. Padgett has been co-principal investigator on several National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funded grants and a National Cancer Institute funded mixed methods study of African-American women and breast cancer screening; she was also national co-director of the Screening Adherence Follow-up (SAFe) project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She became principal investigator of two R01 qualitative methods studies funded by NIMH. The first, The New York Services Study (2004-2008), was a $1.4 million study of service engagement among dual diagnosed homeless adults in New York City. The second, the New York Recovery Study (2010-2015; $1.9 million) used ethnographic methods to examine the role of housing in mental health recovery among formerly homeless adults. Her ethnographic research on homeless ‘pavement dwellers’ in Delhi, India, is an extension of this interest in homelessness to cross-cultural contexts. Since 2015, she has worked closely with The Banyan, an organization in Chennai, India that assists homeless mentally ill women.
Dr. Padgett received the NYU Distinguished Teaching Award (2012) and was Director of the PhD program in Global Public Health (2014-2016). She was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) in 2011 and a Fellow of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) in 2013. She has been active in SSWR since its inception and served as a board member (2002-2007) and President (2004-2006). In 2006, SSWR announced the Deborah K. Padgett Early Career Award in recognition of her contributions.
She holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and received post-doctoral training in public health and psychiatric epidemiology at Columbia University and Duke University, respectively. She earned her MA in anthropology at Florida State University and her BA at the University of Kentucky.

 is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and an affiliate at the Center for Social & Behavioral Science at Illinois.
The goal of Rudolph’s research is to identify risk and protective processes that amplify or attenuate vulnerability to psychopathology across development, with a focus on adolescence as a stage of particular sensitivity.
Her research uses an interdisciplinary, multi-level, multi-method approach that bridges across developmental and clinical psychology and social affective neuroscience. In particular, her research considers how personal attributes of youth (e.g., gender, temperament, emotion regulation, social motivation, coping, neuroendocrine profiles, neural processing), development (e.g., puberty, social transitions), and contexts (e.g., early adversity, stressors, family and peer relationships) intersect to contribute to the development of psychopathology, particularly depression and suicide. This research aims to understand both the origins and consequences of individual differences in risk.
Her lab uses a variety of methodological approaches, including longitudinal survey-based research, interviews, behavior observations, experimental tasks, hormone assessments and fMRI. Recent work also involves the development of a prevention program for adolescent depression.
Rudolph received her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed a clinical internship at the Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital (now the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior) at UCLA before joining the faculty at Illinois. She served as co-editor of the "Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology" and an associate editor for the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. She has served as a PI and co-PI on several large-scale longitudinal studies funded by the National Institutes of Health.

The shortest day of the year, December 21, is almost upon us. And daylight saving time may soon be a thing . What does this mean for our bodies and our health?
Rockefeller scientist , a chronobiology, aging, and sleep scientist who studies the basic function and regulation of circadian rhythms and sleep, is available to discuss:  

The role of sunlight in controlling our circadian clocks—internal biological mechanisms that regulate the timing of daily rhythms in physiology and behavior.


How every cell in our bodies has a circadian rhythm, not just the ones that are related to sleep, and how disruptions to these biological clocks are associated with impaired learning and memory, weakened resistance to infection, and chronic diseases from diabetes to depression.

Dr. Axelrod is a research associate in Nobel laureate ’s lab, who  in 2017 for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. You can see Dr. Axelrod .

As an Assistant Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics at Saint Louis University and the leader of the MUNCH (Multicultural Understanding of Nutrition, Community and Health) Research Lab, I have guided my team to tackle issues related to culture, education, and socioeconomic status that affect people’s dietary patterns. Our current projects include Mama Latina, WIC Dietitians Making a Difference, Becoming a Mother, Gentle Nutrition, and Dietitians and Food Marketing. Each project has contributed to the development of culturally relevant theoretical frameworks and identified core biological, psychological, and social factors that determine eating habits. I have substantial training and experience in multiple areas of nutrition research, ranging from conducting fieldwork with indigenous rural populations in Mexico to working with Hispanic and immigrant caregivers in Texas, Connecticut, and Missouri.

Thomas Stopka is an Epidemiologist and Professor with the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Through his research, Dr. Stopka explores the interconnectedness of substance use, social and behavioral risk factors, and overdose and infectious disease outcomes among high-risk and often hidden populations through community-engaged, interdisciplinary, multi-methods, applied epidemiological research studies. His major research interests focus on the overlap substance use, infectious disease (HCV, HIV, and STIs), and opioid overdose. He employs qualitative, biostatistical, geographic information systems (GIS), spatial epidemiological, and laboratory approaches in his studies to assess the risk landscape, access to health services, and implement and test public health and clinical interventions to address health disparities. Stopka is currently a multi-Principal Investigator (MPI) on three National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded studies that aim to: 1) Predict future opioid overdoses in Massachusetts employing Bayesian spatiotemporal models to inform pre-emptive public health responses; 2) determine the best timing for extended-release medications (XR-Buprenorphine) for opioid use disorder among incarcerated people in Massachusetts; and 3) assess the effectiveness of a mobile telemedicine-based hepatitis C treatment intervention among rural people who inject drugs. He is also a Co-Investigator on the National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded HEALing Communities Study to reduce opioid overdose deaths in Massachusetts, in which he is leading GIS and spatial epidemiological analyses. These and other studies that Stopka is working on employ: 1) ethnographic and qualitative approaches to assess contextual factors tied to salient exposures and outcomes of interest and to generate hypotheses; 2) innovative epidemiological, legal, and policy scans to assess substance use-related morbidity and mortality and health services landscape; 3) spatiotemporal methods to explore the distribution of measures that affect risk, and to determine the geolocation of and access to current services, as well as gaps; and, 4) Bayesian spatiotemporal dynamic modeling approaches to inform small area forecasting of opioid-related mortality.

,  is a board-certified ophthalmologist and world-renowned expert on glaucoma whose expertise includes glaucoma surgery, cataract surgery, and glaucoma management.
A prolific author and investigator, Weinreb has published more than 1,000 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 24 books. He is the current president of the Pan American Glaucoma Society and has served as president for the World Glaucoma Association, the American Glaucoma Society, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and several other organizations.
In 2018, Weinreb was named to the Ophthalmologist's Power List, which recognizes the 100 most influential people in field. He has also been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Weinreb has been elected as a top physician in every edition of America's Top Doctors® annual survey since 1992.

 enhances food nutritional quality while reducing the incidence of cancer, heart disease, macular degeneration, obesity, and other degenerative diseases in his plant breeding program, which focuses on the development of brassica vegetable germplasm (broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and kale) with improved flavor and health properties. He investigates the genetics controlling the biosynthesis of health-promoting phytochemicals in these vegetables. In recent years, he has focused on surface properties of leafy vegetables that make them more or less susceptible to foodborne-illness-causing pathogens. He has also focused on identifying healthful natural food colorants, e.g., anthocyanins in purple corn, as an alternative to artificial dyes. His updated publications can be found on . 
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Almjeld's research centers on digital rhetorics, identity performances, feminist methodologies and community engagement. Her recent work considers ways that gendered identities and digital spaces intersect to encourage certain identities and empower and limit identity performances. Almjeld is particularly interested in girlhood identities in regard to girls as technology users and girls as leaders. For several years she has lead girls' technology and leadership summer camps and afterschool programs and is currently researching the language of leadership related to girls and girlhood. Almjeld also participates in and researches community engagement partnerships in higher education. She is currently working with a team of researchers to study the barriers university faculty face when working with community partners and strategies for overcoming those obstacles. 

Professor of Medicine at The McGovern Medical School (University of Texas), Senior Cardiologist at Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital, Director of Exercise Physiology, Memorial Hermann Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance, & a Sports Cardiologist with the Houston Rockets and Rice Athletics. He is a member of the Admissions Committee at McGovern Medical School.

M.D.: University of Queensland, Australia;
M.PHIL. Masters in Philosophy: University of Cambridge, England;
M.B.A.: George Washington University, Washington, DC – Honors

Dr. Blackstone holds an appointment as professor of political science. Her research considers the U.S. Supreme Court's role in American policymaking and the development of legal rules in the U.S. courts of appeals. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Law & Society Review, PS: Political Science & Politics, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and Research and Politics, among others. She teaches courses on American government, the U.S. Congress, judicial politics and constitutional law.  
Dr. Blackstone earned a master of arts and a doctorate in political science at Emory University and a bachelor's degree in political science from Indiana University. She served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow from 2008-2009. Before coming to JMU in 2022, Dr. Blackstone was the associate dean for the Honors College at the University of North Texas.

Charles Blake’s expertise lies in socioeconomic policy and in politics and public administration in Latin America and Europe. Blake has conducted field research in Argentina, Italy, Mexico, Spain and Uruguay. Along with his research, he leads a study-abroad program in Argentina each year. 
Blake earned his doctorate from Duke University and his bachelor's from Davidson College.

Bortolot teaches courses on processing satellite and aerial imagery, physical geography and forest measurements. 
His research focuses on using satellite and aerial imagery for urban and environmental mapping and for humanitarian applications. Recent research projects include developing a computer-based method for colorizing historical black and white aerial images, assisting a non-profit organization in Haiti estimate coral, mangrove, and sea grass area in proposed marine management areas, and creating a novel computer algorithm for searching large images for features of interest. 
Bortolot earned a bachelor's degree in geological sciences at Brown University, a master's degree in forest resources management at the University of British Columbia and a doctorate in forestry at Virginia Tech.

Lori Britt is a professor of organizational communication in the Department of Communication Studies, where she teaches courses in organizational communication, leadership, dialogue and deliberation, and design and facilitation of processes for productive talk at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is also the director of the  whose aim is to shape conversations that impact individuals, organizations, and communities.
Her teaching and work with ICAD is infused with a passion for training students to be able to design and facilitate conversations where people can tackle the challenging issues that face our communities and that impede organizations from reaching their full potential. Well designed and facilitated talk can keep people at the table even when the issues are difficult, and this offers more opportunity to collaboratively find solutions.
Britt works with the Kettering Foundation of Dayton, Ohio, and the Interactivity Foundation, both of which help advance the study and practice of democratic talk and practice, as well as . She also serves as the Board Chair of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, a vibrant national network of innovators who bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take action together effectively on today’s toughest issues. 
She is originally from Pennsylvania, and received a doctorate in communication from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2010, a master's in communication from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro in 2006, and her bachelor's in mass communication and journalism from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in 1985. Prior to returning to graduate school, Britt had a 20-plus year career in nonprofit and organizational communication, work that took her to 48 of 50 states, and she finally visited the last two in 2022.

Dr. Chen teaches courses on Chinese Politics, Comparative Politics and International Relations at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr. Chen’s research focuses on Chinese politics and U.S. foreign policy toward China.  He has authored or co-authored six books and many refereed journal articles and book chapters.  From a historical perspective, he has examined political changes in China since the Cultural Revolution, and the U.S.-China relationship since the establishment of the People’s Republic China.  Since 1995 his research has focused on China’s public opinion, political culture, popular political support, democratization, mass political participation, and the role of the middle class and private entrepreneurs in political change.  He serves as the co-editor of the Modern China Studies, an international scholarly journal, and as member on editorial boards of many scholarly journals in China studies.  He was appointed the Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Political Science and International Studies, and won the Robert Burgess Award for Excellence in Research at Old Dominion.  He held two endowed positions, William Borah Distinguished Professor of Political Science at University of Idaho and Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Old Dominion University.
He is actively engaged in several major research projects on Chinese politics.  
Dr. Chen earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at Institute of International Politics, a master's degree in international policy Studies at Monterey Institute of International Studies and a doctorate in political science at Washington State University.

Lori Beth De Hertogh (doctorate, Washington State University) is a scholar of rhetorical studies, working at intersections between feminism, rhetorics of health and medicine, and community/public rhetorics. Dr. De Hertogh’s scholarship examines how online communities influence women’s healthcare experiences with pregnancy, fertility, and reproductive justice in community and public contexts. She also investigates social perceptions of type 2 diabetes in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia through a university-to-community partnership with Sentara Rockingham Memorial Hospital Medical Center. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Computers and Composition, Enculturation, Peitho, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, & Technology, and Composition Forum. Additional information about her scholarship and teaching is available at 

DePaolis is director of the Ph.D. program in communication sciences and disorders and runs the Infant and Toddler Language Laboratory, which investigates the process of language development in the first year of life. Recent work has concentrated on using the expertise acquired from working with families over the past 20 years to develop methods to facilitate language development in populations that have historically underachieved in language
DePaolis earned his bachelor's degree in from Northeastern University, and his master's and doctorate in acoustics from The Pennsylvania State University.

Enke researches development and diseases of retinal neurons, epigenetic regulation, genomics and bioinformatics, molecular biology and neuroscience. 
Enke is interested in the molecular processes that neuronal precursors undergo during development into mature retinal neurons, such as rod and cone photoreceptors. He also researches blinding diseases that afflict the retina, such as age-related macular degeneration. In 2018, Enke received $463,915 from the National Institutes of Health to investigate early clinical detectors of age-related macular degeneration and potential medical interventions if early detectors are discovered. 
Enke earned his bachelor's degree in biology from Salisbury University and his doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Allison Fagan is an associate professor in the English department where she teaches courses in Latinx Literature, the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border, African American literature, and contemporary U.S. literature. In the classroom and in her research, she focuses on questions of storytelling: whose stories are lifted and whose sidelined, and which stories—of the border, of the nation, of documented and undocumented subjects and citizens—resonate and which are revised. She is interested in the ways the archives and publishing histories of Latinx and African American writers can complicate the stories we tell ourselves about what counts as American literature. Her book, From the Edge: Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print (2016, Rutgers UP), shows how physical books carry within them the stories of their production, publication, and reception, documents of the storytelling itself.
She is the coordinator of the Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies minor and works with the Shenandoah Valley Scholars' Latino Initiative. 
She is from Chicago by way of Calumet City, Illinois, and she received a doctorate in literature from Loyola University Chicago in 2010 and a bachelor's degree in English from Saint Xavier University in Chicago in 2004. Before JMU, she worked at Indiana University Northwest. 

Jared Featherstone is a teacher of writing, mindfulness, and critical thinking. Drawing from his teaching experience and research, he writes and gives talks on the subject of mindfulness and learning. Since 2009, he has directed the University Writing Center and taught writing courses at James Madison University in Virginia. Before entering academia full-time, he worked as a reporter and editor, and earned a master's of fine arts in creative writing and a bachelor's in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.
He began practicing meditation and Tai Chi in 1996 and was asked to start teaching mindfulness meditation in 2009. In 2018, he completed the two-year Koru Mindfulness teacher certification. In 2021, he will complete Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s two-year mindfulness teacher certification program in partnership with the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. He has published several articles on the subject of mindfulness and learning, and given numerous invited talks on the subject. His guided meditations can be found on and .

Feitosa is a physicist who researches soft materials and complex fluids.
Soft matter encompasses a broad set of materials that challenge traditional categorization as liquids and solids. Unlike ordinary matter, soft materials flow as a liquid above a critical applied stress, but respond elastically like a solid to low applied stress. The transition from fluid to solid behavior shows a dramatic slow down of the dynamics with very little change in the configuration of the particles, a phenomenon akin to the glass transition in molecular liquids.
More recently, Dr. Feitosa has expanded his program to include the study of failure modes of slender bodies such as cylindrical shells, aiming to exploit their intrinsic weakness to design smart materials that can spontaneously and predictably fold under precisely applied small loads. Such smart materials have the potential to transform the field of solid-mechanics in the same dramatic way that the transistor revolutionized the field of micro-electronics.
Our main goal is to trace the macroscopic behavior of soft materials to their microscopic interactions and structural changes.
Feitosa received his doctorate and master's degrees at the Univeristy of Massachusettes, Amherst; and his bachelor's degree at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.