Research Team

Principal Investigators

  • Liesl Folks.
    Liesl Folks, PhD, MBA, FNAI
    PhD, University of Western Australia

    Volunteer Professor
    Department of Electrical Engineering
    University at Buffalo
    Professor
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    University of Arizona

    Specialty/Research Focus: Semiconductor national policy, materials design and innovation; technology transfer cycle optimization; nanostructured magnetic materials and spin-electronic devices; data storage; random access memories; access and participation in STEM.

  • Coleen.
    Associate Professor
    Department of Engineering and Society
    University of Virginia

    Specialty/Research Interests:: Critical race feminist theory, Cultural anthropology, Science and technology studies, Medical anthropology, Ethnography, Action research, Class theory, Intersectionality, Engineering education, Critical methodologies, Broadening participation, Diversity

Co-Principal Investigators

  • Glenna.
    Glenna C. Bett, PhD
    PhD, Oxford University
    Vice Chair for Research
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

    Specialty/Research Interests:: Biomedical Imaging; Cardiac pharmacology; Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Electrophysiology; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Ion Transport; Membrane Biophysics; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Neuroscience; Stem Cells; Translational Research

  • Nancy.
    Nancy A. Schiller
    MS, Columbia University
    Librarian Emerita
    University Libraries
    University at Buffalo
    Co-Director
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science

    Specialty/Research Interests:: Academic science librarianship; scientific scholarly communication; case based pedagogy; science education

  • Laurene.
    Laurene M. Tumiel Berhalter, PhD
    PhD, University at Buffalo

    UB Downtown Gateway

    Department of Family Medicine

    77 Goodell Street, Suite 220N

    Phone: (716) 816-7278

    tumiel@buffalo.edu

    Director of Community Translational Research
    Department of Family Medicine
    Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

    Specialty/Research Interests:: Chronic Disease and Multimorbidity, Health Disparities, Patient Self-management, Translational Research in Communities, Translational Research in Practice

    UB Downtown Gateway

    Department of Family Medicine

    77 Goodell Street, Suite 220N

    Phone: (716) 816-7278

    tumiel@buffalo.edu