Research Team

Principal Investigators

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

    Volunteer Professor
    Department of Electrical Engineering
    Âé¶¹´«Ã½o
    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
    Âé¶¹´«Ã½o
    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.

    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