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Name: Julia Colyar
School: Graduate School of
Education
Department: Educational Leadership and Policy
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic
Degrees: M.A., English, University of Toronto; Ph.D., higher
education, University of Southern California
Areas of Special
Interest: Access to college, learning communities, qualitative
research methods
I'm working on a research project related to women students in information technology majors.
Name: Amy E. Millen
School: Public Health and
Health Professions
Department: Social and Preventive Medicine
Academic Title: Assistant professor
Academic
Degrees: B.S., biology, Bucknell University; Ph.D., nutritional
sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of Special
Interest: Nutritional epidemiology; age-related diseases,
specifically cancer and eye diseases; micronutrients,
vitamin D
I was attracted to UB by the university's long history in epidemiologic research and the easy living provided by the City of Buffalo. And the weather is warmer than Wisconsin.
Name: Gwanseob Shin
School: Engineering and Applied
Sciences
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic
Degrees: B.S., Korea University; M.S. and Ph.D., North Carolina
State University
Areas of Special Interest: Physical
ergonomics, occupational biomechanics, workplace safety
I currently am most interested in the mechanism of low back disorders associated with prolonged stooped postures, and the development of a quantitative risk assessment tool or a prediction model of the stooped postures. Stooping is one of the major postures employed by workers in many occupational tasks, such as crop harvesting in the agriculture industry, and it also is one of the most problematic work postures that is not replaced easily by machines.
Name: Lara E. Sucheston
School: Public Health and
Health Professions
Department: Biostatistics
Academic
Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degrees: B.S.,
Arizona State University; M.S., University at Buffalo; Ph.D., Case
Western Reserve University
Areas of Special Interest: Genetic
epidemiology, statistical methods for the analysis of genetic data
I was attracted to UB by the collaborative nature of the department, the talented and enthusiastic faculty, and the university community's motivation for growth.
Name: Stephen Tiffany
School: College of Arts and
Sciences
Department: Psychology
Academic Title:
Professor
Academic Degrees: B.S., M.S. and Ph.D., University
of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of Special Interest: Drug
addiction
I am most interested in working at the interface of psychological and biological disciplines in an effort to understand the nature of addictive disorders. I currently am investigating drug craving, the diagnosis of drug dependence, drug use in adolescents, motivational processes in addiction and the development of biological and behavioral assays of low-level cigarette smoking. UB is clearly committed to interdisciplinary research-the intellectual atmosphere here is highly supportive of my work. The opportunity to be at a major research university-researching, teaching, collaborating, learning-is extremely fulfilling.