Allen E. Paulson College of Science and Technology
BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Ms. Beth Congdon
Temporary Assistant Professor of Biology
Ms. Congdon received a BS in Zoology from Kent State University in 1992 and an MS in Biology from Cleveland State University in 2000. She will complete her PhD in Biology, with a concentration in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, at the University of Missouri-St Louis in December 2007. For her dissertation work she studied the proximate and ultimate mechanisms of natal dispersal in capybaras, a large neotropical rodent. In general, her research interests include the behavioral ecology of mammals and the conservation of biodiversity. She enjoys teaching both undergraduates and graduate students and hopes to foster an appreciation for wildlife and its conservation. She is also working toward greater connections between academic and wildlife management institutions.
Dr. Bobby Hattaway
Dr. Bobby Hattaway received his Master’s in Botany at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1973 and his Ph. D. in Botany from The Pennsylvania State University in 1984. In more than 25 years of teaching, he has taught mostly botany and microbiology courses. His specialty is plant taxonomy. Bobby has taught at Georgia Southern University since 2003 as a temporary faculty member. In 2007, he accepted the position of Microbiology Lecturer. In 2005, he retired from the US Army Medical Department of the US Army Reserves with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He has twenty-nine years of service with six years on active duty including an eight month tour in Bosnia-Herzegovina. His military occupational specialty was microbiology.
Dr.
Amanda L. Hollebone
Temporary Assistant Professor of Biology
Dr. Amanda L. Hollebone is a new temporary assistant professor of biology who received her Ph.D., from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA (2006). Her research interests include marine community ecology (estuarine and reef), disturbance ecology, and invertebrate zoology. She is particularly interested in how coastal communities respond to stressors in the environment; how natural and/or anthropogenic factors impact the structure and function of communities over space and time. Her research to this point has focused on the ecological impacts of invasive species on estuarine communities and how reef composition and location as well as the reproductive strategies of the invader have impacted the success of invasion. Future research will integrate her background in community ecology with modeling and molecular techniques as tools for predicting species introductions and making wise management decisions.
CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT
Dr. Karelle Aiken
In 2005, Karelle
Aiken obtained her Ph.D. in chemistry under the direction of Professor
Charles K. Zercher at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. From the
Fall of 2005 to the Spring of 2007, she held a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellowship
in the Chemistry Department at Boston University where she taught an Intensive
Organic Course with Dr. John K. Snyder and Dr. Georgia Weinstein. During
this period, she also performed research under the direction of Dr. Snyder.
Dr. David Kreller, Analytical Chemist
Professor Kreller is specialized in analytical and environmental chemistry and is particularly interested in liquid/solid interfaces. Research in the Kreller laboratory is directed towards understanding physical partitioning processes and chemical reactions that occur where water, dissolved organic substances and mineral surfaces are in contact. In addition to studying interactions between naturally occurring species, we are also investigating the behavior of a set of organic pollutants at the interfaces of mineral surfaces with aqueous solutions. The transport, reactivity and bioavailability of pollutant compounds are frequently strongly influenced by their interfacial behavior.
Dr. Thomas E. Chapman
Dr.
Chapman earned his Ph.D. from Florida State University, an M.A. from the
University of Toledo, and a B.A. from Michigan State State University,
all in Geography. He is a broadly trained human geographer with specialties
in geographic information systems (GIS), and political and cultural geography.
He will be teaching GIS, World Regional Geography, and Political Geography.
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Dr. Alina Iacob
Alina Iacob received her Ph. D. from the University of Kentucky in 2005. (She and Dr. David Stone share the same research advisor.) In 2002, she received the Royster award for best graduate teaching assistant at the University of Kentucky. She comes to us from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where she taught for the last two years in a tenure-track line. Alina began teaching in 1992 at a high school in Romania after receiving her B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest. Her research interests include homological algebra and commutative algebra.
Dr. Andrew Sills
Andrew (Drew) Sills received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky in 2002, his M.A. in Mathematics from Penn State University in 1994 and his B.A. in Mathematics from Rutgers University in 1989. In recent years, he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University and as a Hill Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University. His research interests are in combinatorics, symbolic computation, number theory, and classical analysis. He has been a reviewer for Math Reviews since 2003 and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Mu Epsilon.
Dr. Xiangdong Xie
Xiangdong Xie received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 2001, his M.A. from the University of Oklahoma in 1995, and his B.S. from Fudan University in 1988. He was a lecturer at Washington University for three years, a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati for two, and a visiting Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech last year. His research concerns geometric group theory that includes spaces with non-positive curvature. He is also interested in geometric analysis and the connection between the two fields.
Dr. Shijun Zheng
Shijun Zheng received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 2003 and his M.A. in Mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1997. He spent two years on post doctorial research at the University of Maryland and Louisiana State University. He comes to us from the Industrial Mathematics Institute in the Mathematics Department at the University of South Carolina. As an undergraduate in China, he taught problem solving to the best freshman students and won awards in the annual Intercollegiate English Contest (1993-1994).
INSTRUCTOR
Ms. Sharon Barrs
Sharon Barrs received her M.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of South Carolina in 1992. She has many years of teaching experience at the University level and has taught a variety of courses, including all of the calculus and pre-calculus courses as well as courses for K-8 teachers. For the past two years she has worked closely with area teachers as PRISM (Partnership for Reform in Science and Mathematics) Coordinator for the Bulloch County School System. She has been active professionally in the scholarship of teaching, earning grants and making presentations at professional conferences. Ms. Barrs will serve as the GSU Liaison in Mathematics to the Dublin Center.
LECTURERS
Ms. Bridgett Lee
Bridgett Lee graduated from Georgia Southern University with a B.S. in Education degree in Secondary Mathematics Education in 1996, and began her career as a high-school math teacher in Candler County. While teaching high school, Ms. Lee earned her Master’s Degree in Mathematics Education from Georgia Southern University in 2000 and began teaching math courses at Georgia Southern University as Temporary Instructor after earning her graduate degree. She was honored for teaching excellence and entered in the 2000 edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.
Dr. Marshall Ransom
Marshall Ransom earned an Ed.S. in Educational Leadership and a M.S. in Mathematics from Stetson University and earned his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Brown University. He had a 30 year career with Volusia County Schools in Florida where he was a secondary teacher, department head, assistant principal, and the district mathematics specialist. There, he had extensive experience with grants to support P-12 education. He is a grader for the Advanced Placement Calculus program and a reviewer of high school syllabi for the College Board. Since coming to Georgia Southern University as a temporary instructor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences in 2003, he has remained active in the NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) and MAA (Mathematical Association of America) and has provided training for teachers and students in Advanced Placement Calculus, both locally at Statesboro High School as well as in Florida, Texas and Maine. He is also active in the ASPIRES Project in the development of supplementary instruction and guided-inquiry materials for trigonometry, pre-calculus and calculus.
TEMPORARY FACULTY
Dr. Emil Iacob
Emil Iacob received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in 2005, his M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky in 2002, and his five-year degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bucharest in 1993. In recent years, he has worked as a software architect on grant-sponsored research by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities in addition to teaching mathematics on a part-time basis at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Dr. Gavin Seal
Gavin Seal earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Brussels (Belgium) in 2000 and his M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) in 1994. He comes to us from the McGill University in Canada where he served as an instructor and a research assistant. His research interests include category theory as it is applied to topology and computer science. He is a collaborator of Dr. Frederic Mynard in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and visited the department during the 2006-2007 academic year.
Mr. Thierry Valle
Thierry Vallee received his doctorate in Mathematical Logic and Foundations of Computer Science from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Paris VII in 2001. In recent years, he has been involved in post-doctoral work at the Center for Efficiency Oriented Languages at University College Cork in Ireland and at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences of the University of Udine in Italy. Dr. Vallee attended the 2006 Summer Conference on Topology and Its Applications, which was held at GSU in July 2006.
Ms. Marisa Williams
Marisa Williams earned her M.S. in Statistics in 2007 from Colorado State University and her B.S. in Mathematics with a double minor in Statistics and Psychology from Stephen F. Austin State University in 2005. While at Colorado State University, she served as a graduate teaching assistant and a graduate research assistant on a project investigating population sub-structure of bowhead whales using generalized additive models.
MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Dr. N.M. Awlad Hossain
Temporary Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering Technology
Dr. N.M. Awlad Hossain earned his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering and Science from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2006; M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2002 and B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1997. Dr. Hossain’s areas of Specialization and Interests include Computational Solid Mechanics, Finite Element Analysis, Nanostructured Polymer Composite Materials, and Advanced Smart Materials.
Dr. Fernando Rios-Gutierrez
Assistant Profesor
Electrical Engineering Technology
Dr. Fernando Rios-Gutierrez earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2000 and a M.S. degree in Computer Engineering in 1998 from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. He also obtained a M.S. degree in Instrumentation Design in 1980 from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Puebla, Mexico and B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Communications from the National Polytechnic Institute in 1978. He has presented and published several papers in the areas of robotics, electronic instrumentation, learning and navigation techniques for robots, digital systems, and microprocessor applications.
Dr. Frank Goforth
Frank Goforth has 25 years practical experience with Texas Instruments, Rockwell Automation and Cleveland Motion Controls. He received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering in 2006, his MSIE in 2000 from Cleveland State University, and his BSEE from MIT in 1977.
Dr. Mosfequr Rahman
Mosfequr Rahman earned his Ph.D. (2005) and M.Sc. (2002) degrees in Engineering
Science and Mechanics from the University of Alabama. He also earned M.Sc.
(1999) and B.Sc. (1997) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University
of Engineering Technology in Bangladesh. His areas of specialization and
interest include Solid Mechanics, Advanced Materials, Finite Element Methods,
Nanostructured polymer: crosslinked silica Aerogel, Composite Materials,
MEMS, CFD, Experimental Fluid Mechanics and Renewable Energy.
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