Faculty Research Interests

• Sports medicine
• Mission trips for healthcare students

• Application of Innovative Technology in Concrete (ITZ enhancing, digital modeling)
• Concrete Structure Resilience and Preservation (UHPC overlay, FRP retrofit, self-healing, sealer)
• Decarbonization of Concrete Materials (biochar, recycled materials, SCMs)
• Modeling of Cementitious Composites (probabilistic model, fracture mechanics)
• Corrosion and Protection of Reinforced Concrete (cathodic protection, green corrosion inhibitor)

My research agenda focuses on ‘The Business of Healthcare’ and encompasses several key content areas:

1. Expenditures, financial and economic impacts 
2. Health policy and public administration (including ethics)
3. Pedagogy and teaching.

These concepts provide full breadth and depth of the healthcare administration, business administration and public administration (specifically health policy) industries, with common elements of each captured in my research. Supporting research on these topics will include the analysis of management functions such as planning, decision making, organizational design and resource management as well as the exploration of influences on these content areas.

• Addiction treatment
• Healthcare history
• Innovative clinical education

• 20th and 21st Century American Poetry and Poetics
• Multiethnic American Literature
• Jewish Studies
• Ecopoetry

My technical expertise is in the application of fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) in concrete structures and precast sandwich panels. I'm an expert with nonlinear finite element analysis methods for ductile and brittle materials utilizing such software as ABAQUS. Past and current research is in the fields of static, creep and dynamic (blast) analyses of concrete structures.

My research interests include urban space and urban populations with a particular focus on the human/environment relationship, urban planning and social geography, and transnational exchange and adaption of ideas about nature and cities. 

I am working on two research projects: One examines the assignation of meaning to and responsibility for public space through an examination of a particular park location that became a suicide destination in fin de sicle Paris. The other work considers Franco-British greenspace design and exchange from 1660–1880.

My research interests include working to help universities drive curriculum development to align curricula with current technology trends in industry, such as software development and other "in-demand" technology fields.

I am interested in the research and development of bearing systems, seals, and dampers that will lead to energy efficiency and other improvements of turbomachinery. I am especially interested in compliant foil bearings and the applications where they can provide a major technological leap, such as oil-free propulsion, small turbomachinery, and ultra-high-speed micro-turbines for distributed power generation systems. 

Another related area of interest is the development of innovative rotor supports for high-speed kinetic energy storage devices (flywheels).

My research interests include the history of social and political movements, women's activism, anti-fascism, and pacifism. My current book project analyzes the political work of over twenty different British women’s organizations that opposed the rise of fascist regimes in Europe beginning in the early 1930s. While some former militant suffragists joined fascist organizations in Britain, British women’s organizations overwhelmingly understood fascism as the single largest menace to women’s rights. In the years before and during the Second World War, British women’s organizations used the threat posed by fascism to legitimize their engagement in political discourses and to emphasize the importance of protecting the democratic rights that women had fought for decades to obtain.

Applied Econometrics and Labor Economics

My research interests include: end-of-life nursing education; end-of-life nursing care; and mentoring.

My research focuses on reliability‑based geotechnical and foundation design, soil–structure interaction, and disaster risk analysis. More recently, my work has expanded to digital construction, using modeling, simulation, and data‑driven methods—such as three‑dimensional printing—to improve design reliability, construction quality, and engineering decision‑making through industry‑engaged projects.

My research areas include community change strategies and the social impacts of environmental degradation. More specifically, I am working on a model to enhance citizen involvement in community change efforts. I also am examining ways that citizens can work together to address community problems such as crime.

My research interests include the transparency of government communication during times of turmoil, the use of artificial intelligence for qualitative analysis in accounting and finance, and fraud detection and training effectiveness in government performance audits—grounded in my extensive experience in federal auditing and oversight.

My research interests focus on process modeling and simulation, as well as new technology development centering on chemical processing

In general, exploring and developing new mathematical, statistical, and machine learning approaches to solve transportation, supply chain and logistics complex problems are among my current and future research objectives. Moreover, I am open to conduct cutting-edge research ideas including those involving multi-discipline expertise to come up with new perspectives and solutions to existing complex problems. Relevant areas of my current and future research include: data mining & statistical analysis, decision-making supported by big data, transportation network analytics, project scheduling problems, machine learning algorithms for smart manufacturing, and accident analysis.

• Grief, loss, trauma, and healing centered practice
• Policy within systems and communities

My research interests are focused on obtaining a structure through x-ray crystallography of the Neutral Cholesterol Ester Hydrolase 1 (NCEH1) protein to better understand its role in cancer and atherosclerosis. I'm also very interested in the pursuit of research in the progression of science education with the application of technology. I'd like to work with new methods to provide quality feedback and interactive learning outside of the classroom to further the conceptual understanding of material learned in the classroom.

• Alzheimer's disease/Dementia
• Caregiving
• Older adults