Widener

EXPERTS GUIDE

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ACCOUNTING AND TAXATION

Gregory P. Cermignano, J.D., M.B.A., C.M.A. 
Associate Professor, Accounting
Expertise:

• financial and managerial accounting
• business combinations
• contingencies
• cost accounting
• business law
• sports law 
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Lori Fuller, Ph.D., C.P.A. 
Assistant Professor, Accounting
Expertise:

• auditing

Penelope Sue Greenberg, Ph.D., C.P.A., C.M.A. 
Associate Professor, Accounting
Expertise:

• business process management
• budgeting and performance evaluation
• accounting information systems
• managerial accounting
• internal auditing

Joseph M. Hargadon, Ph.D., C.P.A., C.M.A. 
Associate Professor, Accounting
Expertise:

• accounting education and research
• accounting for non-accountants
• professional certification programs 
• financial and managerial accounting
• accounting for healthcare professionals
• taxation of scholarships
• accounting for mutual funds
  Co-author, Fundamentals of Mutual Fund Accounting

Frank C. Lordi, M.S.T., M.B.A., C.P.A., C.M.A., C.I.A.
Department Head, Accounting, Business Law and Taxation;
Associate Professor, Accounting
Expertise:

• financial and managerial accounting
• professional certification programs
• C.M.A. exam and candidate performance: attributes, C.M.A., C.P.A. and C.I.A.
• accounting education

Cynthia J. Saltzman, Ph.D.
Professor, Economics
Expertise:

• banking issues
• global monetary policy and theory
• economics of multinational enterprise
• international trade and finance
• local and national tax policies
• inflation
• economic development
• economics of recycling

James J. Tucker III, Ph.D., C.P.A.
Associate Professor, Accounting
Expertise:

• earnings reports
• quality of corporate earnings
• financial statement analysis
• corporate earnings and the stock market
• corporate restructuring
• gains and losses
• cash flow analysis
• corporate divident policy

TAX LAW

Roberta F. Mann, J.D. , L.L.M., M.B.A
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• federal income tax
• international income tax
• individual income tax
• business income tax
• tax policy
  Admitted to the Arizona and District of Columbia bars.

Sandra K. Miller, J.D., LL.M., C.P.A.
Professor, Accounting
Expertise:

• taxation and business law
• financial accounting
• federal income taxation
• tax research
• alimony trusts
• LLC, LLPs
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Nicholas A. Mirkay, J.D., L.L.M.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• federal income tax, individuals and business entities
• nonprofit organizations
• business organizations
  Admitted to the Missouri Bar; limited admission to the Delaware Bar for pro bono representation.

Loren D. Prescott Jr., J.D., LL.M.
Professor, Law
Vice Dean, Harrisburg campus
Expertise:

• federal income taxation
• nonprofit organizations
  Admitted to the Oregon and Washington bars.

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ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Robert J Bonk, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Professional Writing
Expertise:

• technical and science communication
• healthcare and medical communication
• medical literature
• professional writing
• journalism
• copywriting and scriptwriting
• editing
  Faculty Advisor, The Dome (Widener student newspaper) and Society for Collegiate Journalists

Annalisa Castaldo, Ph.D., M.A.
Assistant Professor, English
Expertise:

• Shakespearean film

Patricia Dyer, Ph.D.
Director, Writing Center; Professor, English
Expertise:

• intercultural communication
• language and culture
• business communication
• linguistics
• English as a second language
• writing

Mark S. Graybill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, English
Expertise:

• 20th-century American literature, particularly fiction
• southern literature and culture
• postmodern literature and culture
• literary theory

Ilene D. Lieberman, Ph.D.
Gabriel Lukas Chair, Fine Arts; Director, Honors Program; Professor, Art History
Expertise:

• British sculpture
• modern sculpture
• public art
• gender and ideology in art
• women’s issues
  Co-author, The Chantrey Ledger in the Royal Academy.

Mara E. Parker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Musicology and String Performance; Associate Dean, Humanities
Expertise:

• Chamber Music
• music history
• cello
  Active studio instructor, Chamber music performer, coach and researcher

Kenneth Pobo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, English and Creative Writing
Expertise:

• 20th century American poetry
• women’s literature
• minority literature
• creative nonfiction
• contemporary poetry
• creative writing
  Author, Ordering: A Season in My Garden, and Introductions

Daniel Robinson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, English
Expertise:

• 18th- and 19th-century British literature
• British Romanticism
• poetry, poetics, poetic form
• 18th- and 19th-century British fiction
• literature and the problem of evil
  Co-editor, A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic Era Revival, 1750-1850 and Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings.

Stephanie Schechner, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences;
Associate Professor, Modern Languages
Expertise:

• French literature and culture
• literature and culture of French-speaking countries
• teaching foreign languages, teacher training
• women’s studies: feminist theory, French women writers and artists
  Executive Council, American Association of Teachers of French Philadelphia Chapter; Faculty Advisor, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Straight Alliance

John H. Serembus, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Expertise:

• logic
• critical thinking
• applied ethics

Beatriz Urraca, Ph.D., M.A.
Assistance Professor, Spanish
Expertise:

• Latin American literature
• Latin American culture
• Argentina
• Spanish language
  Certified, American Translators Association

John A. Vanore, B.S.
Director, Music
Expertise:

• music performance
• recording
  Voting Member, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy Awards);  Gold Record as producer for On Eagle’s Wings by Michael Crawford. Soundtracks for Wide Awake, Miramax; and The American Promise, PBS; Soloist with Woody Herman; Composer/Performer, “Album of the Year” ’90 and ’92

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BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

A. Douglas Bender, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty, Management
Expertise:

• corporate business strategy
• management leadership training
• organizational behavior
• hospital and physician relationships
• small business management and entrepreneurship
• marketing: product development, promotion, management
• medical billing and management services

Susan M. Chesler, J.D.
Legal Methods Professor
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• drafting contracts
• contracts
• legal writing
• litigation
  Admitted to the New York Bar.

Ann E. Conaway, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• business law
• LLC law
• partnership law
• corporate law
  Admitted to the Delaware Bar. Member, Drafting Committees for the Uniform Liability Partnership Act

Joseph P. Fuhr, Ph.D.
Professor, Economics
Expertise:

• economics of antitrust and regulations
• regulation of monopolies
• economics of healthcare
• public utility regulation
• telecommunications: telephone rates, policy, market access, rural telephone issues
• statistical analysis
• economics of sports

Lawrence A. Hamermesh, J.D.
Ruby R. Vale Professor of Corporate and Business Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• Delaware corporate law
• securities law
• business law
• mergers and acquisitions
  Admitted to the Delaware Bar.

Stephen E. Henderson, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• intellectual property
• cybercrime
• criminal law and procedure
• Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues
  Admitted to the Texas Bar.

Myroslaw J. Kyj, Ph.D., M.B.A. 
Department Head, Economics, Finance and Marketing; Professor, Management
Expertise:

• marketing
• international marketing
• e-commerce
• ethics in marketing
• marketing research
• Ukrainian issues: economic and social

Dennis R. Laker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Management
Expertise:

• human resource management
• organizational development
• employment issues: controlling employee turnover, training, alternative employment, job search
• organizational behavior and communication
• human resource services: temporary agencies, leasing firms, outplacement firms, consulting companies
• inferential statistics

Yvonne Lederer-Antonucci, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Management; Coordinator, Business Process Center of Excellence;
Coordinator, SAP University Alliance
Expertise:

• Enterprise Resource Planning Systems 
• workflow management systems
• inter-organizational processes
• business process management
• process mapping

Paul S. Marshall, Ph.D., M.B.A., C.M.A.
Associate Professor, Management
Expertise:

• personal finance: tax planning, estate
• planning, retirement planning, insurance issues, budgeting
• corporate finance
• capital budgeting
• U.S. savings bonds
• real estate: financing and assessment, and analysis of investment properties

Sandra Martinez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Management
Expertise:

• cultural diversity
• leadership

Donna Weaver McCloskey, Ph.D.
Department Head, Management Information Systems and Decision Sciences;
Associate Professor, Management
Expertise:

• telecommuting
• international information systems
• data mining
• data warehousing

Nicholas A. Mirkay, J.D., L.L.M.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• federal income tax, individuals and business entities
• nonprofit organizations
• business organizations
  Admitted to the Missouri Bar and limited admission to the Delaware Bar for pro bono representation

Juliet M. Moringiello, J.D., LL.M.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• secured financing
• payment systems: checks and notes
• bankruptcy/creditors’ rights
• cyberspace law
  Chair, Pennsylvania Bar Association Uniform Commercial Code Committee; Admitted to the Pennsylvania and New York bars.

Savas Õzatalay, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Business Administration;
Professor, Management
Expertise:

• supply chain management
• manufacturing processes
• manufacturing systems
• technology management
• total quality management
• e-business

Paul L. Regan, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• corporate/business law and litigation
• contract law and litigation
  Admitted to the New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware bars.

Germaine H. Saad, Ph.D., M.B.A
Professor, Management
Expertise:

• production and operations management
• supply chain management, productivity and technology management
• decision making and problem solving: models, techniques and managing change
• negotiation skills and techniques
• total quality management
• business process reengineering

Cynthia J. Saltzman, Ph.D.
Professor, Economics
Expertise:

• banking issues
• global monetary policy and theory
• economics of multinational enterprise
• international trade and finance
• local and national tax policies
• inflation
• economic development
• economics of recycling

James J. Tucker III, Ph.D., C.P.A.
Associate Professor, Accounting
Expertise:

• earnings reports
• quality of corporate earnings
• financial statement analysis
• corporate earnings and the stock market
• corporate restructuring
• gains and losses
• cash flow analysis
• corporate dividend policy

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CASINOS AND GAMING

Jeffrey C. Lolli, M.S., C.H.E
Lecturer, Hospitality Management
Expertise:

• hotel/restaurant management
• casino management
• human resource management
  Eighteen years of managerial experience in the lodging and gaming industries

Shiang Lih Chen McCain, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Hospitality Management
Expertise:

• hospitality marketing
• customer satisfaction
• marketing research
• casino management
• casino marketing
  Slot host, Asian Marketing Manager, Imperial Palace Casino, Las Vegas

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COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA

Robert J. Bonk, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Professional Writing
Expertise:

• technical and science communication
• healthcare and medical communication
• medical literature
• professional writing
• journalism
• copywriting and scriptwriting
• editing
  Faculty Advisor, The Dome (Widener student newspaper) and Society for Collegiate Journalists

Dwight DeWerth-Pallmeyer, Ph.D.
Director, Communication Studies; Acting Associate Dean, Social Science;
Associate Professor, Communications
Expertise:

• audience studies
• radio broadcast
• broadcast journalism
• media criticism
  Author, The Audience in the News. Producer and Director, 75 minute documentary (2007)

Patricia Dyer, Ph.D.
Director, Writing Center; Associate Professor, English
Expertise:

• intercultural communication
• language and culture
• business communication
• linguistics
• English as a second language
• writing

J. Joseph Edgette, Ph.D.
Professor, Education; Director, Teacher Intern Program; Chair, Graduate Education Admissions
Expertise:

• folklore
• hauntings
• Titanic
• occult, legend, local history
• holiday lore
• cemeteries and gravemarkers
• disasters
• customs and traditions
  Vice President, Association for Gravestone Studies; Chair, Grave Marker and Cemeteries area of American Culture Association; Public Speaker/Author, Cemeteries and Grave Markers: Voices of American Culture, Folklore vs. Fakelore in the English Classroom and As in Life, So Too, in Death: A Comparison of Residences in Life and Death

Amy R. Franzini, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Communications   
Expertise:

• popular culture
• mass media and children
• television content
• TV history
• TV and teens
  Member, Popular Culture Association; Member, National Communication Association

Alan E. Garfield, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• copyright law
• free speech
• church and state issues
  Author, Promises of Silence: Contract Law and Freedom of Speech;
  Admitted to the New York and California bars.

Robert L. Myers, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor Emeritus, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• dynamic psychotherapy with children and families
• how stress affects children and families
• family communication and understanding
• developmental issues
• school issues: acceptance, fear, performance anxiety, peer pressure
• separation and independence
• empty nest syndrome
• stress management
• psychodiagnosis
• effects of TV violence on children
• technology and mental health
• child development
• psychotherapy
• psychological assessment
• computer technology
• human behavior

Timothy Scepansky, M.Ed.
Senior Lecturer; Communications; Coordinator, Media Production
Expertise:

• digital imaging
• computer graphics and design
• multimedia design
• CD/DVD production
• video and film production
• non-linear digital editing
• web design, interactive animation for the internet and streaming video
  Member, Media Communication Association and Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association. Producer/filmmaker, Breeding Deviates and Addition by Subtraction.

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COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY

Yun Gong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Expertise:

• image and video coding and transmission
• DSP applications in multimedia, wireless and other telecommunication areas
• optimization algorithms and applications

Raymond P. Jefferis III, Ph.D.
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Expertise:

• systems/software engineering
• computer control of industrial processes
• pharmaceutical process instrumentation
• computer-aided engineering and design
• process simulation

Charles R. Nippert Jr., Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering; Acting Chairman, Chemical Engineering
Expertise:

• computer simulation
• process control
• internet programming
• computer applications in engineering
• educational software

Timothy Scepansky, M.Ed.
Senior Lecturer, Communications; Coordinator, Media Production
Expertise:

• digital imaging
• computer graphics and design
• multimedia design
• CD/DVD production
• video and film production
• non-linear digital editing
• web design, interactive animation for the internet and streaming video
  Member, Media Communication Association and Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association. Producer/filmmaker, Breeding Deviates and Addition by Subtraction

Sohail Sheikh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Expertise:

• computer design and application
• parallel processing
• computer architecture
• fault-tolerant computing

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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Dana Harrington Conner, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• domestic violence and domestic violence homicides
• ethical issues and the representation of battered women
• professional responsibility
• access to justice
• student practice
  Admitted to the Delaware Bar; Director, Delaware Civil Law Clinic

Amiram Elwork, Ph.D.
Director, Law-Psychology Program; Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• law-psychology: jury instruction, patient confidentiality, mental competency, custody mediation
• psychological issues for lawyers
• cognitive psychology
• forensic psychology
• ethics
  Author, Success Briefs for Lawyers: Inspirational Insights on How to Succeed at Law and Life, Making Jury Instructions Understandable and Stress Management for Lawyers

Jules Epstein, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• death penalty/murder
• sex crimes
• trials and evidence
• mistaken identification
• criminal law and procedure
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar

William R. Geary, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice
Expertise:

• legal socialization
• community policing
• criminal justice

William E. Harver, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
Expertise:

• police
• criminal justice
• criminology
• Member, American Society of Criminology, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Southern Police Institute Alumni Association and American Society of Industrial Security

Stephen E. Henderson, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• cybercrime
• criminal law and procedure
• Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues
• intellectual property
  Admitted to the Texas Bar

Nancy Hirschinger-Blank, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice
Expertise:

• juvenile delinquency
• juvenile violence in urban areas
• female gender-specific issues related to incarceration and violence
• female-on-female violence, adults and juveniles
• domestic violence

See also Criminal Law

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ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

Larry D. Barnett, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• Investment Company Act
• Investment Advisers Act
  Author, Mutual Funds and Federal Regulation: Readings on the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act. Admitted to the Florida Bar

Eric Brucker, Ph.D
Professor, Economics
Expertise:

• economics of aging
• macroeconomics
  Member, Association of Gerontology in Higher Education Taskforce on Business and Aging

Caryl E. Carpenter, Ph.D.
Professor, Health and Medical Services Administration
Expertise:

• healthcare finance
• price determinants of hospital tax-exempt debt
• effect of financial incentives on clinical practice
• ambulatory care administration
• healthcare legislation

Kerri A. Crowne, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Professor, Management
Expertise:

• emotional intelligence
• cultural intelligence

Joseph P. Fuhr, Ph.D.
Professor, Economics
Expertise:

• economics of antitrust and regulations
• regulation of monopolies
• economics of healthcare
• public utility regulation
• telecommunications: telephone rates, policy, market access, rural telephone issues
• statistical analysis
• economics of sports

Iqbal Mansur, Ph.D.
Professor, Management
Expertise:

• corporate and international finance
• banking issues
• exchange rates
• monetary and fiscal policies
• U.S. and foreign equity markets

Paul S. Marshall, Ph.D., M.B.A., C.M.A.
Associate Professor, Management
Expertise:

• personal finance: tax planning, estate planning, retirement planning, insurance issues, budgeting
• corporate finance
• capital budgeting
• U.S. savings bonds
• real estate: financing, assessment and analysis of investment properties

Nathaniel C. Nichols, J.D.
Director, Clinical Programs; Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• consumer bankruptcy law
• family law
• martial arts
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar

Michael D. Rosko, Ph.D.
Professor, Health Care Administration
Expertise:

• efficiency of health care organizations
• hospital responses to payment incentives and market conditions
• affects of mergers on hospital performance
• quality of care and patient safety in hospitals
  Author, Economics of Health Care

Cynthia J. Saltzman, Ph.D.
Professor, Economics
Expertise:

• banking issues
• global monetary policy and theory
• economics of multinational enterprise
• international trade and finance
• local and national tax policies
• inflation
• economic development
• economics of recycling

Mary L. Williams, Ph.D.
Professor, Management
Expertise:

• family business
• entrepreneurship
• business plans
• starting a new business
• succession planning
  Educational Program Coordinator, Widener University Small Business Development Center

Hamid Zangeneh, Ph.D.
Professor, Economics
Expertise:

• international economics and business
• macroeconomics and banking
• Islamic banking
• Third World debt and related issues
• Iran economics and politics
  Editor, Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis; Writer, Iran Today (daily newspaper) and Silicon Iran (monthly high-tech trade magazine)

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EDUCATION

Alida Anderson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Education
Expertise:

• literacy and language development
• early intervention
• early childhood special education

Bernard Brogan, Ph.D.
Professor, Education
Expertise:

• school choice/vouchers/charter schools
• educational reform issues
• performance-based education
• professional portfolios
  Author, The Choice Movement: A Consideration of the Issues

Nadine C. McHenry, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor, Education; Director, Science Teaching Center
Expertise:

• environmental studies and education
• science education
• teaching and learning
• assessment strategies for teachers
• curriculum issues
  Secretary, Eastern Educational Research Association 

Antonia D’Onofrio, Ph.D.
Professor, Education
Expertise:

• education evaluation
• statistics

J. Joseph Edgette, Ph.D.
Professor, Education; Director, Teacher Intern Program;  Chair, Graduate Education Admissions
Expertise:

• folklore
• hauntings
• Titanic
• occult, legend, local history
• holiday lore
• cemeteries and gravemarkers
• disasters
• customs and traditions
  Vice President, Association for Gravestone Studies; Chair, Grave Marker and Cemeteries area of American Culture Association; Public Speaker/Author, Cemeteries and Grave Markers: Voices of American Culture, Folklore vs. Fakelore in the English Classroom and As in Life, So Too, in Death: A Comparison of Residences in Life and Death

Annemarie B. Jay, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Reading/Literacy
Expertise:

• reading instruction
• reading diagnosis
• language arts curriculum
• early childhood education
• literacy leadership
  Vice President, Keystone State Reading Association; President, Delaware County Reading Council

Dolores A. Kelly, Ed.D.
Director, Field Experience and Certification; Assistant Professor, Education
Expertise:

• student teaching

Patricia A. Lawler, Ed.D.
Professor, Education
Expertise:

• adult education
• gender issues in the classroom
• women in higher education
• leadership in higher education
• enhancing teaching and learning
• ethical issues in education
• faculty development
  Author, The Keys to Adult Learning: Theory and Practical Strategies; Co-author, Planning for Effective Faculty Development: Using Adult Learning Strategies

Margaret Inman Linn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Education
Expertise:

• special education
• early intervention
• school psychology
• early childhood education
• child development

Thomas Marshall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Education
Expertise:

• business and environmental ethics
• Native American studies

Konstance A. McCaffree, Ph.D., A.C.S.E., C.F.L.E
Senior Program Consultant, Human Sexuality Program; Adjunct Professor, Education
Expertise:

• sexuality education
• teacher training in sexuality issues
• gender issues in schooling
• adolescent development
• curriculum in sexuality for international populations
  Author, Making a Difference, Making Proud Choices, and Be Proud and Responsible; Author, Teaching Human Sexuality, A Nigeria Training Manual; President-Elect, American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors & Therapists

Susan S. McNiff, Ed.D., L.P.C., NBBC
Assistant Professor, Education
Expertise:

• school counseling
  Member, American School Counseling Association, PA and NJ School Counselor Associations

Roger Place, Ed.D., C.S.S – PA
Associate Professor, Education Leadership
Expertise:

• school administration
• superintendent issues
• principal issues
• school terrorism
• school budgets and taxation
• school personnel issues
  School superintendent for 25 years.

Edward G. Rozycki, Ed.D.
Associate Professor, Education
Expertise:

• violence in schools
• school reform and leadership
• philosophy of education
• higher education structure, history, curriculum
• behavioral analysis

Richard E. Thurlow, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Education
Expertise:

• cognitive psychology applied to education
• education psychology
• reading comprehension
• learning theories
• science teaching

Noreen M. Yoder, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor, Education; Director, Child Development Center
Expertise:

• early childhood education
• play as an instructional tool
• health, safety and nutrition for early childhood
• problem solving for children
• enhancing creativity in children through arts
• emergency plans
  PA-Keystone Stars, National Association for the Education of Young Children Accreditation.

HIGHER EDUCATION

Linda Durant, M.Ed.
Vice President, University Advancement
Expertise:

• higher education fundraising

Lois J. Fuller, M.B.A., M.Ed.
Director, International Student Services
Expertise:

• student immigration issues
• university/community interaction (i.e., friendship and host families)
• counseling international students

James T. Harris III, Ed.D.
President, Widener University
Expertise:

• higher education administration
• higher education fundraising and development
• higher education diversity issues
• civic engagement in higher education

Emily C. Richardson, Ed.D.
Dean, University College
Expertise:

• adult-continuing education
• blended learning
• online learning
• non-traditional students
• degree completion programs
• learning in retirement
  Programming Chair, ACHE Region IV; Board Member, UCEA; Chair, Commission on Learning, Instruction and Technologies, UCEA

Stephen C. Wilhite, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Human Service Professions; Associate Provost for Graduate Studies;
Professor, Psychology
Expertise:

• human memory and cognitive processes
• leadership in metropolitan universities
• students’ study habits and their relationship to academic achievement
• higher education administration
  Author, Learning and Memory: The Basis of Behavior

TESTING AND ASSESSMENT

Ning Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Education
Expertise:

• Educational Measurement/Assessment
• Educational Research Methods
• Educational Statistics
• Math Education
• Test Development

Robert J. Wright, Ph.D.
Professor, Educational Measurement and Research
Expertise:

• individual intelligence testing
• assessment of schools
• state-wide assessments
• No Child Left Behind Act
• college admissions testing
• value-added assessment
• individual IQ testing
• multiple intelligences
  Author, Educational Tests and Measurements: Assessment in the Era of Accountability

See also Legal Education/Ethics

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ENGINEERING

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

David H.T. Chen, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Expertise:

• hazardous waste management
• chemical process development and design
• heat and mass transfer

Gennaro J. Maffia, D.E., M.B.A.
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Expertise:

• chemical processing
• design and troubleshooting
• CPI and Biotechnology
• energy and Environmental
• biotechnology/biomaterials
• simulation of chemical and biological processes
• petrochemical processing

Kenneth M. McNeil, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Expertise:

• air pollution control
• process development
• reaction engineering

Charles R. Nippert Jr., Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering; Acting Chairman, Chemical Engineering
Expertise:

• computer simulation
• process control
• internet programming
• computer applications in engineering
• educational software

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Fred A. Akl, Ph.D., P.E.
Dean, School of Engineering; Professor, Civil Engineering
Expertise:

• vibration analysis/control
• computer simulation and modeling

Vicki L. Brown, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
Expertise:

• concrete design
• the use of advanced composite materials in construction

John F. Davis, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
Expertise:

• water and wastewater treatment
• water quality modeling and assessment
• watershed management
• fate and transport of pollutants

Balaur S. Dhillon, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor, Civil Engineering
Expertise:

• steel, concrete and timber designs
• structural analysis of buildings and bridges

Ronald L. Mersky, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
Expertise:

• waste management
• waste-to-energy facilities
• recycling
• environmental impacts of waste management
• public involvement in the environment

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Sukumar M. Brahma, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Expertise:

• power system analysis
• neural networks applications in power systems

Raymond P. Jefferis III, Ph.D.
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Expertise:

• systems/software engineering
• computer control of industrial processes
• pharmaceutical process instrumentation
• computer-aided engineering and design
• process simulation

JoAnn B. Koskol, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Expertise:

• digital image processing
• signal processing

Bryen E. Lorenz, Ph.D.
Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering; Professor, Electrical Engineering
Expertise:

• instrumentation
• magnetic materials

Sohail Sheikh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Expertise:

• computer design and application
• parallel processing
• computer architecture
• fault-tolerant computing

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Rocco A. DiTaranto, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering
Expertise:

• helicopter dynamics
• noise pollution and acoustics
• stress in composite materials
• vibration of structures

Zhongping Huang
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Expertise:

• artificial kidney
• nanotechnology
• refrigeration
• freeze-drying
  Editorial Board, American Society for Artificial Organs; Member, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning engineers; Vice President, International Society of Lyophilization – Freeze Drying, Delaware Valley Chapter

Maria Slomiana, Ph.D.
Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Expertise:

• composite materials
• solid mechanics
• fracture mechanics

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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

David H.T. Chen, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Expertise:

• hazardous waste management
• chemical process development and design
• heat and mass transfer

John F. Davis, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
Expertise:

• water and wastewater treatment
• water quality modeling and assessment
• watershed management
• fate and transport of pollutants

John C. Dernbach, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• environmental law
• global warming
• international environmental law
• sustainable development
• administrative law
• property law
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar

Rocco A. DiTaranto, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering
Expertise:

• helicopter dynamics
• noise pollution and acoustics
• stress in composite materials
• vibration of structures

David R. Hodas, J.D., LL.M.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• environmental law
• constitutional law
• energy and natural resources
• international environmental law
• global warming
• administrative law
• sustainable development
  Vice Chair, ABA Special Committee on Global Climate and Sustainable Development; Board of Editors, Natural Resources and Environment; Member, IUCN – World Conservation Union Environmental Law Commission; Admitted to the Delaware Bar

Kenneth T. Kristl, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law; Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic 
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• environmental law
• clean water legal issues
• solid waste legal issues
• environmental litigation
• liquefied natural gas
• federal environmental policies, practices, procedures
• use of scientific data in the law
• legal issues of environmental science and data
  Admitted to the Illinois Bar

Gennaro J. Maffia, D.E., M.B.A.
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Expertise:

• chemical processing
• design and troubleshooting
• CPI and biotechnology
• energy and environmental
• biotechnology/biomaterials
• simulation of chemical and biological processes
• petrochemical processing

James R. May, J.D., LL.M.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• environmental law
• international environmental law
• natural resources law
• race and the environment
• engineering aspects of environmental law
• agency law
• toxic and hazardous substances
  Member, U.S.E.P.A. Water Pollution Task Force and IUCN  -- World Conservation Union Environmental Law Commission; President, Mid-Atlantic Environmental Law Center. Admitted to the Kansas and Pennsylvania bars.

Ronald L. Mersky, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
Expertise:

• waste management
• waste-to-energy facilities
• recycling
• environmental impacts of waste management
• public involvement in the environment

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FAMILIES AND CHILDREN

Jules C. Abrams, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor Emeritus, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• learning disabilities: behavioral, emotional, physical
• reading and spelling disorders in children
• the brain injured child
• dyslexia
• psychoanalysis
• psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy
• professional psychologist training
  Co-author, Diagnosis, Corrections, and Prevention of Reading Disabilities.

Linda L. Ammons, J.D.
Associate Provost and Law Dean
Campus: Delaware and Harrisburg
Expertise:

• women and the law
• domestic violence
• administrative law
  Admitted to the Ohio bar.

Beth I. Barol, Ph.D., L.S.W.
Assistant Professor, Social Work
Expertise:

• group dynamics/facilitation
• evelopmental disabilities with challenging behaviors

Patricia M. Bricklin, Ph.D.
Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• reading and learning disabilities: child, adolescent, adult
• school psychology
• legal regulation of psychology   
• national and state legislative issues
• ethical issues

John J. Capowski, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• domestic violence
• legislative process
• evidence
• clinical legal education
• pro bono and legal services
• trial practice
  Admitted to the New York and Maryland bars.

Francis J. Catania, Jr., J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• family law (marriage, divorce, child custody, child support, spousal abuse, adoption, etc.)
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania State Bar.

Dana Harrington Conner, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• domestic violence
• ethical issues and the representation of battered women
• domestic violence homicides
• professional responsibility
• access to justice
• student practice
  Admitted to the Delaware bar. Director of the Delaware Civil Clinic.

Dennis M. Debiak, Psy.D.
Clinical Associate Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• gay/lesbian/bisexual issues
• gay youth
• gay/lesbian/bisexual parents and their children
• diversity/multicultural issues
• contemporary psychoanalytical approaches to psychotherapy
• professional training of psychologists
  President, Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education; Secretary, Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association

Lawrence A. Fehr, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Expertise:

• health psychology
• stress reduction
• guilt feelings
• sexual attitudes and behavior
• children’s cognitive development
• personality theories and assessment
• anxiety
• adolescence
• children and discipline
• elder abuse
  Author, Introduction to Personality. Co-author, Vibrant Health.

Arlene Rivera Finkelstein, J.D.
Legal Writing Professor
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• balancing family and the law
• women in the law
• minorities in the law
• public interest law
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar. Former president, Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania.

Elisabeth N. Gibbings, Psy.D.
Director, Practicum Training and Admissions; Associate Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• psychological assessment
• dynamically oriented play therapy
• hospital management issues
• work with pregnant and parenting teens
• training of professional psychologists

Barbara Gilin, MSW, L.S.W.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Social Work
Expertise:

• domestic violence
• adults who were sexually abused as children
• adoption issues
• family therapy
  Author, A Group Model for Treating Battered Women. Clinical member, American Association for Marital and Family Therapy.

John R. Giugliano, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Assistant Professor, Social Work
Expertise:

• sex addiction
• sex therapy
  Board of Directors, Society for Sexual Health, National Council on Sex Addiction.

Mary Kate Kearney, J.D., L.L.M.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• family law
• children and the law
• child abuse
• domestic violence
  Author, The ADA, Smokers and Respiratory Ailments. Admitted to the Illinois Bar.

Alicia B. Kelly, J.D., L.L.M.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• family law: economic rights between spouses, gendered nature of family work, impact of family law on women, tension between work and family law
• property law
  Admitted to Pennsylvania and Colorado bars.

Linda K. Knauss, Ph.D., ABPP
Director, Internship Training; Associate Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• family problems
• serious emotional and behavioral disorders of children and adolescents
• psychological assessment
• ethical and professional issues
• juvenile delinquency and forensic issues
• training and supervision of  psychologists
• school
• sexual abuse

Frank Masterpasqua, Ph.D.
Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• community psychology and prevention
• developmental psychopathology
• lifespan development
• stress, adjustment, coping, emotions, self-esteem in childhood
• early human development
• social policy and children’s rights
• multimodal interventions
  Co-author, Prevention of Problems in Childhood: Psychological Research and Applications and A Complete Paradigm for Psychological Practice.

Robert L. Myers, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor Emeritus, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• dynamic psychotherapy with children and families
• how stress affects children and families
• family communication and understanding
• developmental issues
• school issues: acceptance, fear, performance anxiety, peer pressure
• separation and independence
• empty nest syndrome
• stress management
• psychodiagnosis
• effects of TV violence on children
• technology and mental health
• child development
• psychotherapy
• psychological assessment
• computer technology
• human behavior

Sanjay R. Nath, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• cross-cultural psychology
• postpartum depression
• inter-racial relationships
• arranged marriages
• ethnic identity formation
• suicide in cross-cultural context
  Licensed Psychologist. Recipient of Lindback Grant to study suicide cross-culturally. Board Member, Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology

Nathaniel C. Nichols, J.D.
Director of Clinical Programs; Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• family law
• consumer bankruptcy law
• martial arts
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Barbara E. Ryan, Ph.D.
Director, Women’s Studies; Professor, Sociology
Expertise:

• women’s movement: history, change, issues
• feminism
• gender issues
• social movements
• women’s activism
• changing families
• reproductive rights and issues
• spousal notification
  Author, Feminism and the Women’s Movement: Dynamics of Change in Social Movement Ideology and Activism, The Women’s Movement: References and Resources and Identity Politics in the Women’s Movement.

Brent A. Satterly, Ph.D., M.S.S., L.C.S.W.
Director, BSW Program; Assistant Professor, Social Work
Expertise:

• human sexuality
• gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender issues (GLBT)
• clinical care with survivors of childhood sexual abuse, HIV/AIDS, families of divorce, and alternative family systems
• experiential social work program development
• undergraduate social work program development
• self-disclosure and professional identity management in social work
  Local, regional and national presenter: self-disclosure and GLB professional identity management, social work mentorship, experiential education, GLBT issues in clinical Care, and healthy sexuality and childhood sexual trauma. 

Paula T. Silver, Ph.D., MSW
Associate Dean, School of Human Service Professions; Director, Center for Social Work Education; 
Associate Professor, Social Work
Expertise:

• social work practice
• child welfare
• service learning pedagogy
• group treatment
• cultural diversity
  Author, The Status of Children and Youth: Philadelphia, Volume II and Surviving the Bureaucracy: Predictions of Job Satisfaction for the Public Agency Supervisor.

See also Psychology

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FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY

J. Joseph Edgette, Ph.D.
Professor, Education; Director, Teacher Intern Program; Chair, Graduate Education Admissions
Expertise:

• folklore
• hauntings
• Titanic
• occult, legend, local history
• holiday lore
• cemeteries and gravemarkers
• disasters
• customs and traditions
  Vice President, Association for Gravestone Studies. Chair, Grave Marker and Cemeteries area of American Culture Association. Public Speaker/Author, Cemeteries and Grave Markers: Voices of American Culture, Folklore vs. Fakelore in the English Classroom and As in Life, So Too, in Death: A Comparison of Residences in Life and Death.

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GENDER AND SEXUALITY

Linda L. Ammons, J.D.
Associate Provost and Law Dean
Campus: Delaware and Harrisburg
Expertise:

• women and the law
• domestic violence
• administrative law
  Admitted to the Ohio bar.

Dennis M. Debiak, Psy.D.
Clinical Associate Professor, Graduate Clinical Psychology
Expertise:

• gay/lesbian/bisexual issues
• gay youth
• gay/lesbian/bisexual parents and their children
• diversity/multicultural issues
• contemporary psychoanalytical approaches to psychotherapy
• professional training of psychologists
  President, Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education; Secretary, Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association

Arlene Rivera Finkelstein, J.D.
Legal Writing Professor
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• women in the law
• balancing family and the law
• minorities in the law
• public interest law
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar. Former president, Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania

Patricia A. Lawler, Ed.D.
Professor, Education
Expertise:

• adult education
• gender issues in the classroom
• women in higher education
• leadership in higher education
• enhancing teaching and learning
• ethical issues in education
• faculty development
  Author, The Keys to Adult Learning: Theory and Practical Strategies. Co-author, Planning for Effective Faculty Development: Using Adult Learning Strategies.

Ilene D. Lieberman, Ph.D.
Gabriel Lukas Chair, Fine Arts; Associate Professor, Art History; Director, Honors Program
Expertise:

• British sculpture
• modern sculpture
• public art
• gender and ideology in art
• women’s issues
  Co-author, The Chantrey Ledger in the Royal Academy.

Barbara T. Norton, Ph.D., M.A.
Professor, History
Expertise:

• Russian/Soviet, East European history
• sexism and society
• women’s history
• 19^th & 20^th Century Russia
  Author, Russian Political Masonry and the End of the Monarchy.

Barbara E. Ryan, Ph.D.
Director, Women’s Studies; Professor, Sociology
Expertise:

• women’s movement: history, change, issues
• feminism
• gender issues
• social movements
• women’s activism
• changing families
• reproductive rights and issues
• spousal notification
  Author, Feminism and the Women’s Movement: Dynamics of Change in Social Movement Ideology and Activism, The Women’s Movement: References and Resources and Identity Politics in the Women’s Movement.

Stephanie Schechner, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Associate Professor, Modern Languages
Expertise:

• French literature and culture
• literature and culture of French-speaking countries
• teaching foreign languages, teacher training
• women’s studies: feminist theory, French women writers and artists
  Executive Council, American Association of Teachers of French Philadelphia Chapter. Faculty Advisor, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Straight Alliance.

Carolyn A. Walter, Ph.D., L.C.S.W
Professor, Social Work
Expertise:

• timing of motherhood
• menopause
• breast cancer
• grief and loss
• women’s issues
• social work practice
• human behavior
• grief and loss
  Author, The Timing of Motherhood. Co-author, Breast Cancer and the Life Course: Women’s Experiences and Author, Loss of a Life Partner: Narratives of the Bereaved.

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GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

D. Benjamin Barros, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• eminent domain/takings
• property law
• constitutional property
  Admitted to the New York bar.

John J. Capowski, J.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• legislative process
• domestic violence
• evidence
• clinical legal education
• pro bono and legal services
• trial practice
  Admitted to the New York and Maryland bars.

Michael R. Dimino, Sr., J.D.
Assistant Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• Supreme Court personnel and procedure
• judicial selection
• constitutional law
  Admitted to practice in New York, Pennsylvania and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Martin E. Goldstein, Ph.D.
Professor, Government and Politics
Expertise:

• international affairs
• terrorism
• American foreign policy
• politics of the Middle East and China
• strategic intelligence
  Author, The Two Poles of U.S. National Security Policy: Arms Control and Military Preparedness.

Gordon P. Henderson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Government and Politics
Expertise:

• American politics including judiciary and public policy
• U.S. Supreme Court
• powers of president, congress, governors, mayors
• elections
• government regulation of business
• political corruption
• government ethics
• citizens rights, liberties, responsibilities

Rebecca R. Jones, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor, Government and Politics
Expertise:

• political science 
• international politics
• international relations
• Eastern Europe
• European Union Balkans
• Democracy building

Robert Justin Lipkin, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• U.S. Supreme Court
• politics and the law
• law and society
• how judges reason
• conceptual and moral natures of law
• methodology in legal theory
• constitutional law: due process, equal protection, church and state, role of the Supreme Court in a republican democracy
  Author, Constitutional Revolutions: Pragmatism and the Role of Judicial Review in American Constitutionalism. Admitted to the California Bar.

Robert C. Power, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• American legal history
• criminal law and procedure
• federal agencies/regulating policy
• First Amendment
• War on Terror
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania, New York and Rhode Island bars.

Andrew L. Strauss, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• international law
• American foreign policy
• United Nations
• international trade and finance
  Executive Committee, Association of American Law Schools, International Law section. Co-author, International Law & World Order. Admitted to the New York Bar.

James E. Vike, Ph.D.
Director, Master of Public Administration Program; Assistant Professor, Government and Politics
Expertise:

• the presidency
• elections
• public administration
• public policy
• political/bureaucratic relations

Micah J. Yarbrough, J.D.
Director, Bar Programs; Legal Writing Professor
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• immigration – asylum/deportation issues
• African Americans and the legislative process
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania State Bar.

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HEALTHCARE

A. Douglas Bender, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Management
Expertise:

• corporate business strategy
• management leadership training
• organizational behavior
• hospital and physician relationships
• small business management and entrepreneurship
• marketing: product development, promotion, management
• medical billing and management services

Caryl E. Carpenter, Ph.D.
Professor, Health and Medical Services Administration
Expertise:

• healthcare finance
• price determinants of hospital tax-exempt debt
• effect of financial incentives on clinical practice
• ambulatory care administration
• healthcare legislation

Denise R. Dunlap-Hinkler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Management
Expertise:

• international business
• knowledge transfer
• expatriation/repatriation
• breakthrough/incremental product innovations
• small business and corporate entrepreneurship
  Gunnar Hedlund Best Dissertation Finalist. Author, Journal of International Business Studies.

Andrew J. Fichter, J.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• health law
  Admitted to Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars.

Joseph P. Fuhr, Ph.D.
Professor, Economics
Expertise:

• economics of healthcare 
• economics of antitrust and regulations
• regulation of monopolies
• public utility regulation
• telecommunications: telephone rates, policy, market access, rural telephone issues
• statistical analysis

Susan L. Goldberg, J.D., LL.M.
Associate Professor, Law
Associate Dean, Office of Student Affairs
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• bioethics
• assisted reproductive technology including in vitro fertilization
• genetic testing
• cloning
• organ transplantation
• informed consent
• end-of-life issues including advanced directives, assisted suicide, living wills, substituted decision-making
  Author, Medical Choices During Pregnancy: Whose Decision is it Anyway? and Of Gametes and Guardians: The Impropriety of Appointing Guardians Ad Litem for Fetuses and Embryos. Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Michael D. Rosko, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Professor, Health and Medical Services Administration
Expertise:

• healthcare economics: cost containment programs, effects of technological change on healthcare costs, compensated vs. uncompensated care
• political economy of healthcare
• evaluation of regulatory efforts
• healthcare marketing
• nursing homes
  Co-author, Economics of Health Care: A Reference Handbook.

Lynn Nelson Russom, R.N.C., M.S.N., C.R.N.P.
Administrative Coordinator/Nurse Practitioner, Student Health Services
Expertise:

• immunizations
• preventive healthcare
• health and wellness in the young adult
• nurse practitioner role
• college health management
• communications management of health data
• college health insurance

Carolyn A. Walter, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Professor, Social Work
Expertise:

• timing of motherhood
• menopause
• breast cancer
• social welfare policies
• women’s issues
• social work practice
• human behavior
• grief and loss
  Author, The Timing of Motherhood. Co-author, Breast Cancer and the Life Course: Women’s Experiences; Author, Loss of a Life Partner: Narratives of the Bereaved.

PHYSICAL THERAPY

Sandra Campbell, M.B.A., P.T.
Clinical Associate Professor, Physical Therapy; Academic Coordinator, Clinical Education 
Expertise:

• clinical education
• health care policy and reimbursement

Robin L. Dole, Ed.D., P.T., P.C.S.
Associate Dean, School of Human Service Professions; Director, Institute for Physical Therapy Education; Associate Professor, Physical Therapy
Expertise:

• pediatrics
• developmental disorders
• special education and related services
• gait dysfunction

Dawn Gulick, Ph.D., P.T., A.T.C., C.S.C.S.
Associate Professor, Physical Therapy
Expertise:

• sports medicine
• disabled sports
• Olympic Medical team
• private practice physical therapy

Jill Black Lattanzi, P.T., M.S., Ed.D
Clinical Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy
Expertise:

• cultural competency for the healthcare professional
• rehabilitation and oncology
  Author, Developing Cultural Competence in Physical Therapy Practice.

Robert Wellmon, P.T., Ph. D., N.C.S.
Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy
Expertise:

• physical therapy
• physical rehabilitation
• stroke rehabilitation
• balance and falls – elderly
• geriatrics, health care issues in physical rehabilitation
  Board Certified in Neurology, American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties.

Christopher Wise, P.T., M.S., O.C.S., F.A.A.O.M.P.T., M.C.T., A.T.C.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy
Expertise:

• low back pain
• neck pain
• sports injuries
• musculoskeletal injuries

See also Nursing

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HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT

Joy P. Dickerson, Ed.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor, Hospitality Management
Expertise:

• leadership development
• experiential learning
• career development
• raining and development
• hospitality human resource management
  Member, CHRIE; Member, PCMA.

Nicholas J. Hadgis, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Hospitality Management; Professor, Hospitality Management
Expertise:

• hotel real estate development
• beer and wine
• tourism
• human resources
• restaurant management
  Member, American Hotel and Motel Association and Human Resources Council. Board of Governors, Hotel Restaurant and Tourism Academy. President, Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education.

Connie Holt, M.S., R.D., C.H.E.
Associate Professor, Hospitality Management; Registered Dietician
Expertise:

• food and nutrition education
• nutrition implementation in restaurants
• food service sanitation
• weight loss
• sports nutrition
• medical nutrition therapy for cardiology
• nutrition in rehabilitation
• nutrition for children with special healthcare needs
  Former President, Philadelphia Dietetic Association. Member, American Dietetic Association, Pennsylvania Dietetic Association and American Society of Hospital Food Service Administrators. Club Managers Associate of American.

Jeffrey C. Lolli, M.S., C.H.E
Lecturer, Hospitality Management
Expertise:

• hotel/restaurant management
• casino management
• human resource management
  Eighteen years of managerial experience in the lodging and gaming industries.

John F. Mahoney, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Hospitality Management
Expertise:

• hotel management
• food and beverage management
• menu planning
• service systems management
• hospitality accounting: cost and inventory controls
• food service sanitation
  Certified Instructor, ServSafe – National Food Safety Certification Program. Member, Hospitality Financial and Technical Professionals.

Shiang Lih Chen McCain, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Hospitality Management
Expertise:

• hospitality marketing
• marketing research
• casino management
• casino marketing
  Slot host, Asian Marketing Manager, Imperial Palace Casino, Las Vegas.

David L. Tucker, M.B.A., M.Ed.
Associate Professor, Hospitality Management
Expertise:

• business and industry food service management: corporate, education institutions, healthcare facilities
• contract food service
• hospitality career development
• personnel: employee turnover, wages, work schedules, job satisfaction, motivation
• responsible alcoholic beverage service
• recruiting
• food service production
• beverage management
• career development
  Member, Society for Foodservice Management; Board of Directors, Council of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education; Certified Instructor, ServSafe; Certified Instructor, Bar Code – Responsible Service of Alcohol Program; Board of Directors, Society of Food Service. SAFE Boating Certificate, Food Sanitation and Beverage Service Certificate

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND FOREIGN MARKETS

Patricia Dyer, Ph.D.
Director, Writing Center; Professor, English
Expertise:

• intercultural communication
• language and culture
• business communication
• linguistics
• English as a second language
• writing

Jill Family, J.D., M.S.
Associate Professor, Law
Campus: Harrisburg
Expertise:

• immigration
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars.

Martin E. Goldstein, Ph.D.
Professor, Government and Politics
Expertise:

• international affairs
• terrorism
• American foreign policy
• politics of the Middle East and China
• strategic intelligence
  Author, The Two Poles of U.S. National Security Policy: Arms Control and Military Preparedness.

David R. Hodas, J.D., LL.M.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• environmental law
• constitutional law
• energy and natural resources
• international environmental law
• global warming
• administrative law
• sustainable development
  Vice Chair, ABA Special Committee on Global Climate and Sustainable Development. Board of Editors, Natural Resources and Environment. Member, IUCN-World Conservation Union Environmental Law Commission. Admitted to the Delaware Bar.

J. Patrick Kelly, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• international law
• international organizations – WTO/IMF
• international business law
• international trade
• administrative law
• international environmental law: global warming/ozone/endangered species
  Admitted to the District of Columbia Bar.

Myroslaw J. Kyj, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Professor, Management
Expertise:

• marketing
• international marketing
• e-commerce
• ethics in marketing
• marketing research
• Ukrainian issues: economic and social

Iqbal Mansur, Ph.D.
Professor, Management
Expertise:

• corporate and international finance
• banking issues
• exchange rates
• monetary and fiscal policies
• U.S. and foreign equity markets

Donna Weaver McCloskey, Ph.D. 
Department Head, Management Information Systems and Decision  Sciences;
Associate Professor, Management
Expertise:

• international information systems

Barbara T. Norton, Ph.D., M.A.
Professor, History
Expertise:

• Russian/Soviet, East European history
• sexism and society
• women’s history
• 19^th & 20^th Century Russia
  Author, Russian Political Masonry and the End of the Monarchy.

Andrew L. Strauss, J.D.
Professor, Law
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• international law
• American foreign policy
• United Nations
• international trade and finance
  Executive Committee, Association of American Law Schools, International Law section. Co-author, International Law & World Order. Admitted to the New York Bar.

Micah J. Yarbrough, J.D.
Director, Bar Programs; Legal Writing Professor
Campus: Delaware
Expertise:

• immigration – asylum/deportation issues
• African Americans and the legislative process
  Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

Hamid Zangeneh, Ph.D.
Professor, Economics
Expertise:

• international economics and business
• macroeconomics and banking
• Islamic banking
• Third World debt and related issues
• Iran economics and politics
  Editor, Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis. Writer, Iran Today (daily newspaper) and Silicon Iran (monthly high-tech trade magazine).