| Mentor | Discipline | Project Name/Description | Contact |
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College of Business |
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| Derick Esplin, Ph.D. | Accounting | Upgrading the accounting curriculum: Skills that accounting graduates need in order to have a successful career in accounting. | DerrickEsplin@dixie.edu |
| Shandon Gubler, Ph.D. | Business | Connecting students with real-world practitioners and monitoring those relations. Dr. Gubler has collected data on 8,318 interactions between students and employers. | gubler@dixie.edu |
College of Science, Engineering, & Technology |
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| Chris Taylor | Biology | Advisor for Biology, Pre-Professional and Utah TechPre-Medical Alliance students. For information on the Stanford Research Internship or other opportunities in Biology, do not hesitate to contact Chris. | chris.taylor@dixie.edu |
| Geoff Smith Ph.D. | Biology | Research on the Side-Blotched Lizards that has been published in different scientific journals. | Geoff.Smith@dixie.edu |
| Curt Walker Ph.D. | Biology | Study of the canyon tree frogs in Zion National Park. | walker@dixie.edu |
| Rico Del Sesto, Ph.D. | Chemistry
Materials Science |
Design and synthesis of new chemicals and materials with applications in medicine (antibacterial, antifungal), energy (biofuels, heat transfer fluids), environment (sampling, decontamination, forensics), and optical/magnetic responsive materials. | delsesto@dixie.edu |
| Wendy Schatzberg, PhD |
Chemistry
Chemistry Education & Nanomaterials Chemistry
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In chemistry education, the projects involve understanding how students learn and use chemistry knowledge in the classroom and laboratory. In nanomaterials, the projects look at the design, synthesis, and analysis of nanomaterials in the laboratory, environment, medicinal, and energetics. | schatzberg@dixie.edu |
| Zhenyu Jin, Ph.D | Geography/GIS | GIS, Disease and Health Mapping. Research on the application GIS to monitor and map spread of disease, healthcare issues. | Zhenyu.Jin@dixie.edu |
| Vinodh Chellamuthu, Ph.D. |
Mathematics | Mathematical Modeling, Ecology, Biology, Data Analytics, Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis, Spread of Disease. | Vinodh.Chellamuthu@dixie.edu |
| Jesse Hicks Ph.D | Mathematics | Ongoing projects in Mathematical Physics, Differential Geometry, Lie Theory, and Cryptography | Jesse.Hicks@dixie.edu |
| Bhuvaneswari Sambandham (Buna), Ph.D. | Mathematics | Fractional differential equations and numerical methods for ordinary and partial differential equations. | Buna.Sambandham@dixie.edu |
| McKay Sullivan. Ph.D |
Mathematics | Game Theory, Cryptography, Mathematical Physics, Representation Theory & Conformal Field Theory. | Mckay.Sullivan@dixie.edu |
| Russell Reid, Ph.D. | Mechanical engineering | Currently investigating the potential of liquid-based kinetic energy harvesting for biomedical applications. | Russell.Reid@dixie.edu |
College of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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| Florence Bacabac, Ph.D. | English
Professional and Technical Writing Emphasis |
Writing for Multimedia and the Web. | bacabac@dixie.edu |
| Olga A. Pilkington, Ph.D. | English
Linguistics |
Language of popular science (presented discourse of scientists), Lab lit (genre of literature that deals with science and scientists). | opilkington@dixie.edu |
| Shauna Wight, Ph.D | English | Online affinity spaces and literacy learning, how literacy education affects students’ educational trajectories, teaching for transfer. | shauna.wight@dixie.edu |
| Theda Wrede, Ph.D | English | Literary studies including multicultural, feminist, postcolonial, and environmental criticism in American and world literature. | wrede@dixie.edu |
| Amanda Scott, Ph.D | English | Victorian literature, gender studies, Native American literature/ tribal identity, Romantic poetry, Civic Engagement. | scotta@dixie.edu |
| Joy McMurrin, Ph.D | English/Professional and Technical Writing | Writing in the professions. Technical documentation. Web 2.0. Interactive media. Design. Usability. | joy.mcmurrin@dixie.edu |
| Erin Ortiz, Ph.D | Organizational Communication | Organizational Communication and Service Leadership. | Erin.Ortiz@dixie.edu |
| Dannelle Larsen-Rife, Ph.D. | Psychology &
Neurobiology |
Developmental science, practice, and application of interpersonal neurobiology, especially as it applies to Integrative Health. Particularly interested in understanding how early experience contributes to mental and physical health across lifespan. | dlarsenrife@dixie.edu |
| Kristine Olson, Ph.D. | Psychology Industrial-Organizational | Culture, diversity, work-family interface, gender, and organizational climate applied to the workplace. | kjolson@dixie.edu |
| John Wolfe, Ph.D | Philosophy | Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, American Pragmatism, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy and Popular Culture. | wolfe@dixie.edu |
| Matt Smith-Lahrman, Ph.D | Sociology | Qualitative sociology, ethnography, participant observation fieldwork. | lahrman@dixie.edu |
| Raisa Alvarado, Ph.D | Communication Studies, Rhetorical and Intercultural Studies | Intersectional feminist epistemologies, social movements, intercultural communication, gender communication. | raisa.alvarado@dixie.edu |
| Lish Harris, Ph.D | Criminal Justice | The effect of supplementary educational programs on juvenile delinquency and research on school shootings. As well as issues of social justice and race and crime. | lharris@dixie.edu |
College of Health Sciences |
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| Travis Ficklin, Ph.D. | Biomechanics
Exercise Science |
Exercise Science, which include Biomechanics, Motor Control, and Measurement and Evaluation. Research on flail-like motions and sports performance, especially in the realm of the diamond sports baseball and softball. | Travis.Ficklin@dixie.edu |
| Susan Hart Ph.D. | Exercise Science | Exercise Science, Motor Learning & Bone Density. Comparison of different theories related to attentional focus in a rehabilitation setting. And investigation of factors that affect the development of bone mineral density. | Susan.Hart@dixie.edu |
| Lisa Welch | Health Sciences | Academic dishonesty in online learning. Undergraduate student knowledge of the oral transmission of sexually transmitted infections | lwelch@dixie.edu |
| Brenda Armstrong MDH | Oral Health Care / Nursing Home Health | Reserach conducted with the support of Senior Charity Care Foundation (SCCF) and the Utah Dental Hygienists’ Association (UDHA) to study the oral health status of nursing home residents. | barmstrong@dixie.edu |
College of Education |
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| Lacy Hope, Ph.D. | English | Post-Doctoral Fellow of English. Her research focuses on the intersections of technology, writing, and public engagement. | lacy.hope@dixie.edu |
| Nancy Ross, Ph.D. | Arts and Sciences | Teaches interdisciplinary writing, feminism and whiteness. She has researched the history and sociology of the Mormon feminist movement. | nross@dixie.edu |
| Mark Jeffreys, Ph.D. | English | Poetics and ethnographic study of a rural village in British Columbia. | jeffreys@dixie.edu |
College of Visual and Performing Arts |
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| McGarren Flack |
Visual Art | Sustainability of art and materials correlating to the art pieces; social constructs and art. | flack@dixie.edu |
| Lauren DiSalvo |
Art History | 18th-century classical reception. | Lauren.DiSalvo@dixie.edu |
| Jennifer Weber | Dance | Research engages critical approaches to existing codified dance techniques to reimagine the ways in which the various training methods, practices, and genres of dance can be in conversation. The direct areas of application she investigates are dance pedagogy, creative process, and the individual artist. | jennifer.weber@dixie.edu |
| Bryant Smith |
Music | 19th Century Mormon Brass Bands and their cultural connections to America | Bryant.Smith@dixie.edu |
| Ka-Wai Yu, Ph.D. | Music | Doctoral thesis, entitled “When concerto meets song cycle: A study of vocal influences in Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A Minor, OP.129 with reference to his Dichterliebe, OP. 48” | Ka-wai.Yu@dixie.edu |
| Robert Matheson | Music | Electro-acoustic music performance practice and composition. As well as double bass performance, contemporary music and commercial music. | matheson@dixie.edu |