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Ferraiolo teaches courses in American politics and public policy. Her research focuses on the politics of morality policy as well as the use of direct democracy as a policymaking institution in the American states.

Her current projects examine state legislators' approaches to framing abortion restrictions; state lawmakers' responses to successful ballot initiatives; and tobacco control strategies by governmental and nongovernmental groups that are grounded in either denormalization or harm reduction.

Ferraiolo's work has been published in Policy Studies Journal, Politics & Policy, Polity, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Policy & Internet, World Medical & Health Policy, The American Review of Politics, The Journal of Policy History, and Teachers College Record.

She is originally from Connecticut and received her bachelor's degree in political science magna cum laude from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusettes. She received her master's and doctorate degrees in government from the University of Virginia.

Ferraiolo is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha, and Alpha Sigma Nu honor societies and she was the 2016 recipient of the James Madison University General Education Distinguished Teacher Award.

Frysinger’s scholarship focuses on the science and engineering of interactive integrated information systems supporting environmental decision makers from all backgrounds and sectors of society. His current research at JMU explores the auditory representation of spatial environmental data with the goal of expanding the efficacy of exploratory data analysis for GIS-based decision support systems. Combining his early industrial research in sonification with the engineering of environmental decision support systems, the aim of his current work is the development and employment of a flexible software platform supporting psychophysics experiments that will characterize the applicability of auditory displays to exploratory spatial data analysis. 
With 20 years of industrial research and systems engineering experience prior to joining JMU’s Integrated Science and Technology faculty in 1995, Frysinger has experience in data visualization and sonification, remote sensing, and industrial environment, health and safety management. He has two decades of experience in European Commission projects applying his expertise to data and software architectures targeting such diverse applications as climate change adaptation and disaster response and management, and has consulted with national laboratories, federal and state agencies, international research consortia, and industrial organizations. 
Frysinger earned a bachelor's degree in environmental studies/physics from William Paterson College; a master’s degree in computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology; a master’s degree in applied psychology/human factors from Stevens Institute of Technology; and a doctorate in environmental sciences from Rutgers University.

Dr. Lori Gano-Overway’s research interest is in exploring how the social-psychological climate and coaching practices can be structured to provide positive experiences for young people and foster positive youth development. Additionally, she explores how to create coach education and coach development programs to improve coach learning.
Gano-Overway is a co-author of the book, "A Coach's Guide to Maximizing the Youth Sport Experience: Work Hard, Be Kind," published by Routledge in 2019.
Gano-Overway earned her bachelor's degree at Hope College, her master's degree at Purdue University and her doctorate at Michigan State University.

Tobias Gerken is a broadly trained environmental and atmospheric scientist teaching courses about environmental science and sustainability as part of the Integrated Science and Technology major. Topics include climate change, air and water pollution, ecological processes as well as global ecosystem change. 
His research focuses on land-atmosphere interactions. He is particularly interested in the surface flux dynamics of water, energy, and trace gases between ecosystems and atmosphere and their impacts on weather and climate.
He has also investigated the role of agricultural land management in the Northern Great Plains on rainfall and the role of feedbacks between land and atmosphere for the rapid development of drought.
Tobias Gerken has conducted field research in the Brazilian Amazon and on the Tibetan Plateau to better understand the exchange energy, water, and carbon dioxide between ecosystems and atmosphere and how this may be affected by environmental change and human activities.
He earned a Diplom (BSc & MSc equivalent) in environmental science and a doctorate in environmental and atmospheric science at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He formerly was an assistant research professor at Penn State’s Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science and a research associate at Montana State University’s Department of Land Resources and Environmental Science.

Good is the executive director of the Center for Assessment and Research Studies (CARS) and a professor of graduate psychology. As executive director of CARS, Good oversees assessment support available to degree programs, student affairs, general education and special projects geared toward improving student learning and development. 
She conducts research on the value of college, employability skills, and assessment and accreditation. 
Good earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at Berea College, a master’s degree in psychological sciences (quantitative concentration) at JMU and a doctorate in assessment and measurement at JMU.

Henry's areas of research are sexuality education; sexual assault prevention; rape myth acceptance; sexual and relationship health; and undergraduate education. Preventing sexual assault and changing the culture around sexual violence on college campuses is of particular interest. Henry is involved with the Green Dot violence prevention strategy at JMU.
Henry earned her bachelor's degree in psychology and her master's degree in couple and family therapy from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She earned her doctorate in health behavior at Indiana University.

Herrick studies the incidence and genomics of foodborne pathogens, such as Salmonella, in the environment, particularly streams and rivers. He has a special interest in the transmission of antibiotic resistance among bacteria. He is co-director of the Center for Genome and Metagenome Studies (CGEMS) at JMU.
He received his doctorate in microbiology from Cornell University and did postdoctoral research at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He also has bachelor's and master's degrees from Brigham Young University.

Dr. Ittefaq teaches public relations writing, health communication and environmental communication. 
Dr. Ittefaq’s research focuses on the ways people consume and interact with information through mainstream and social media, including how they interpret scientific messages, make decisions related to health and climate, and support policies related to science. Additionally, his research focuses on environmental communication, examining the process of effectively conveying information and raising awareness about the causes, consequences and solutions related to climate change, health and politics.  
Ittefaq earned a bachelor's degree in communication studies at the University of the Punjab, a master's degree in media and communication at Ilmenau University of Technology and a doctorate in journalism and mass communication at the University of Kansas. 

Climer studies memory's neural underpinnings. Neuroscientists agree that synapse changes help us acquire new memories, but researchers are just starting to understand what governs these changes and how they impact neural firing patterns. Little is known about the neurobiology of forgetting, a complex process critical for daily function. Climer believes there is a critical relationship between forgetting and continual learning, and that we can observe signatures of this using novel behavioral tasks and by recording neurons as memories develop and are forgotten.
To study neurons across a memory's lifetime, Climer studies mice as they perform tasks in virtual reality. VR allows mice to have experiences that are impossible or impractical in a laboratory setting, such as learning a new environment every day. Using two-photon imaging of calcium and neurotransmitter sensors, it is possible to record the same neurons and their inputs in live mice across days and weeks, allowing researchers to link changes in the neural code to changes in an animal’s ability to remember. We are particularly interested in the changes that occur at the end of the life of a memory: as animals forget.
Areas of expertise

Memory
Spatial navigation
Neuron computation
Statistics of neural data
2-photon imaging
Virtual reality in animals

Research Areas:


Electrophysiology


Neurophysiology 


Neurobiology


Behavioral Neuroscience


Research Interests:


Two-Photon Imaging


Virtual Reality


Computational Neuroscience


Learning and Memory


Imaging


Computational Neuroscience


Spatial cognition


Spatial navigation


Education


B.S., biology & biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2010


Ph.D., neuroscience, Boston University, 2016


 

Auinash (Nash) Kalsotra is a professor and Willam C. Rose Scholar of Biochemistry in the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He also is an adjunct professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cancer Center@Illinois, and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. 
Kalsotra is a Chan Zuckerburg Biohub Chicago investigator, a Beckman Institute fellow, and an associate editor of the WIREs RNA journal (Wiley).
He received his undergraduate degree in pharmacy from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India (1999). While earning his PhD at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, he was a Harry S. and Isabel Cameron doctoral fellow and studied the role of cytochromes P450 in the progression and resolution of inflammation. During his postdoctoral work as a Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation fellow and an American Heart Association young investigator at Baylor College of Medicine, he began his studies on post-transcriptional gene regulation and RNA biology in human health and disease. Kalsotra started his independent research group in 2013.
He teaches MCB 354: The Biochemical and Physical Basis of Life, a course with large enrolments of over more than 400 students each academic yera. As a junior faculty mentor and advisor, he provides guidance and support to pre-tenured faculty in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
As an active member of the RNA Society, Kalsotra has organized/chaired scientific sessions at various national and international meetings. He also serves as an expert reviewer for several funding agencies and journals. Additionally, as a steering committee member of the Rustbelt RNA community, he is involved in guiding RNA research in the Midwest, promoting long-term efforts to ensure the viability of the annual RRM conference, and fostering the professional development of students from smaller universities and predominantly undergraduate institutions.
Research interests
Kalsotra’s research interests are to uncover the biological function(s) of RNA in tissue development, regeneration, and disease. He is particularly interested in understanding:

how various RNA processing mechanisms integrate with transcriptional, translational, and metabolic programs to ensure normal tissue growth and function,
why misregulation of these mechanisms results in disease, and
whether they can be leveraged to prevent or reverse particular human disorders.

Recent work from the Kalsotra laboratory has resulted in many high-profile publications, e.g., Genes & Dev., J. Exp. Med, Genome Res., Dev. Cell, J. Clin. Invest., PNAS, Nature Struct. Mol. Biol., eLife, and Nature Commun. He has also published invited articles, including perspectives and opinions in Nature Reviews, Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev., Semin. Cell Dev. Biol. Kalsotra is regularly invited to present his research findings at major conferences, universities, and research centers. His research activities have been funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Chan Zuckerburg Initiative, March of Dimes, and American Heart Association.
 
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A scholar of American government and politics, Jones' interests include political communication, political behavior, public opinion, polarization and media, and elections. Jones serves as the director of JMU’s Washington Semester, a study abroad and internship-based program that allows students to experience the abundant political and cultural opportunities available in D.C.
Jones earned his doctorate and master's from Purdue University, and his bachelor's degree from Appalachian State University.

Christina Kilby's research specialization is Tibetan Buddhism. In this field, she was awarded a fellowship by the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia to apply analytical bibliography (the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects) to Tibetan literary materials. She can speak broadly to the role of Buddhism in Tibetan culture both historically and in the context of the modern Chinese state.
She is also developing new research and courses on the intersections between religion and the global refugee crisis, such as religious ethics of hospitality, religious meaning ascribed to migration experience, policies of inclusion and exclusion based on religious affiliation, and the role of faith-based refugee relief and resettlement organizations. 
She earned her bachelor's degree in religious studies from Davidson College, her master of theological studies degree from Harvard Divinity School, and her doctorate in history of religions from the University of Virginia. She received a Fulbright-Hays fellowship in 2013-14 and has conducted extensive fieldwork among Tibetan communities in China, India, Nepal and the United States. 

Kirkpatrick's interests revolve around one central question: What is the most effective way to teach students how to build secure and robust computer systems that will benefit society? Answering this question requires examining complex technical issues with the help of insights from cognitive psychology, learning sciences, and ethics. He also believes it is vital for computer scientists to play an active role in addressing the societal impacts of their work and broadening participation in computing. 
Within the technical domain of computer science, his research experience has focused on computer system security, contextual access control, operating systems & virtualization, and embedded systems. All of these areas hold great promise for improving the human experience, but they also introduce significant risks. When teaching and discussing these subjects, Kirkpatrick emphasizes the need for critical analysis that weighs the benefits and costs of these technologies. 
Kirkpatrick serves as an officer of the Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE) for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the computer science professional society with over 100,000 members worldwide. In this role, he helped to rewrite the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct in 2018, has created (and continues to create) supporting materials to help computer scientists learn how to apply these principles, and has presented workshops on integrating ethics into the computer science classroom. He also serves as a member of the Plagiarism & Ethics Committee for the ACM Publications Board. 
Kirkpatrick received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science at Indiana University, a master's degree in computer science and engineering at Michigan State University and a doctorate in computer science at Purdue University. 

David C. Kirkpatrick (PhD, University of Edinburgh) has written or co-edited multiple books that explore intersections of politics, religion, and social movements—with the University of Pennsylvania Press (2019), Rutgers University Press (2022) and his current book project with Oxford University Press (expected in 2023). This book, Blood and Borders, explores how stories and images of violence shaped voting constituencies and participation in the U.S. public square. He has also produced leading research with scholars from around the world—at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies in Germany, funded by the German government (UNC Press, 2022), at Dartmouth College funded by the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), and at Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Kirkpatrick’s research speaks to the increasing diversity of the U.S. voting public, how religion impacts political discourse and engagement, as well as the diversity and importance of Latino communities in the United States.

With a background in sciences studies and popular culture, Klein’s scholarship and teaching focuses on the configuration and cultural representation of science and technology, science fiction literature and film, and the use of narrative in medical and health-related settings. Klein serves as the coordinator of the cross-disciplinary medical humanities minor, which provides students with a humanistic and social study of illness, health and the body.
He received a doctorate in science and technology studies from Virginia Tech; a master's in technical communication from Rensselaer; and a bachelor's in biology from the University of Arizona.

Alessandro Palermo is an expert in the seismically safe design of buildings and bridges, with an additional focus on sustainability. He holds twos patents in mass timber construction, one of which is consider the basis for the advancement of seismically resilient technologies for timber construction and adopted in several buildings around the world.
Palermo has expertise in material degradation and potential mitigation strategies. For example, one of his recent projects aims to improve the lifespan of bridges by using innovative materials and by understanding the impact of corrosion on a bridge’s seismic performance. He also has done work on using waste materials, such as tires and glass, to improve the seismic performance of concrete structures.  
Palermo expertise branches out to digital construction as well. He is currently working on an extensive testing program to quantify the performance of 3D Printed concrete houses during earthquakes, the Achilles’ heel of the technology.

Christensen is a national policy leader for the field of robotics and has testified before Congress on the subject. He is the head of a nationwide effort to draft a robotics roadmap and explore the field’s potential to transform U.S. society. Most recently, he served as Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech. Christensen's research covers computer vision, artificial intelligence and robotics, and his primary emphasis has been on a systems-oriented approach to machine perception, robotics and design of intelligent machines. He and his team seek solutions that are theoretically sound, with well-defined implementations that can be evaluated in realistic situations. He has worked with a number of industry partners, including Boeing, KUKA, iRobot, BMW and Apple.


 
Before joining UC San Diego as director of the Contextual Robotics Institute at the Jacobs School, he was the founding director of Institute for Robotics and Intelligent machines (IRIM) at Georgia Institute of Technology (2006-2016). He has published more than 350 contributions across AI, robotics and vision. Christensen received the Engelberger Award 2011, the highest honor awarded by the robotics industry. He was also awarded the "Boeing Supplier of the Year 2011" with 3 other colleagues at Georgia Tech. Christensen is a fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He received an honorary doctorate in engineering from Aalborg University 2014.

 

Kondrad currently teaches Human Lifespan Development and a pedagogy course for undergraduate teaching assistants.
Kondrad’s research explores young children’s social and cognitive development.
Kondrad also does research in the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is interested in pedagogical techniques that help students manage test anxiety; curb academic dishonesty; and promote student learning in large, lecture style courses.  
Kondrad earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at the College of William and Mary, a master's degree in cognition, action, and perception at Arizona State University, and a doctorate in developmental psychology at the University of Virginia.

Kozak teaches classes on principles of marketing and advanced professional selling. He has also taught services marketing and entrepreneurship.
Kozak earned a bachelor's degree in marketing at the Univeristy of Maryland and a master's degree in marketing from Loyola University Maryland.

Marianne Mason (doctorate, University of Georgia, linguistics) is a scholar in the areas of language and the law/forensic linguistics, discourse/conversation analysis, translation/interpreting studies, and game theoretic pragmatics. Dr. Mason studies police-lay person exchanges, specializing in the discourse of police interviews/interrogations and the intersection between case law and contemporary police interrogation practices in the United States and abroad. Her work has appeared in numerous peer reviewed journals in the areas of linguistics, criminology, law, communication, and translation/interpreting studies. She is also a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (Fellow ’18). Her latest co-edited publication, The Discourse of Police Interviews (2020), explores the sociolegal, cognitive, and discursive framework of popular police interview techniques employed in the United States and abroad and the discursive practices of institutional representatives that can influence the construction and quality of linguistic evidence.
Her current area of research takes a corpus-based and game theoretic approach to the analysis of case law and forensic discursive exchanges. This research will be featured in her forthcoming book, Police Interrogation, Language, and the Law (2023), with Cambridge University Press.
Dr. Mason is also on the editorial board of Translation and Interpreting Studies: The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association. She is also a board member of the Society for the Study of Translation and Interpretation (SSTI)/National Association of Judiciary Interpreters & Translators/NAJIT.