College of Sciences and Humanities

Department: Biology
Research Area: Micro and Molecular Biology

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Applications of task-specific ionic liquids and development of paper-based microfluidic devices

Department: Sociology
Research Area: Lesbian studies, qualitative research methods, gender studies, LGBTQ community, feminist research

Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Urban anthropology, feminist anthropology, immigrants and refugees

Department: English
Research Area: Contemporary Irish literature

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Engineering enzymes as green chemical catalysts. We apply the technologies of synthetic biology and directed evolution to make targeted changes to existing natural enzymes to develop catalysts with new or improved reactivity.

Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Historical archeology of the eastern US, Midwest and Southeast from 1700s to early 1900s.

Department: Environment, Geology and Natural Resources
Research Area: Hydrology, water resources, natural resources, water quality, geography, GIS, climate change

Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: My research investigates some of the social, cognitive, and neural processes involved in (mis)communication in digital contexts.

Department: Disability Services/Women's & Gender Studies
Research Area: 1) All things related to student disability accommodations in higher education, but specifcally transitioning from high school to college; 2) The intersections of feminism and disability; 3) Feminism/WGS in the real world or what do you do with a WGS degree after graduation? 4) Feminism & women's history in Muncie & at BSU

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: My research is broadly focused on BioNanotechnology, which involves design, assembly, synthesis, and application nanometer scale Nucleic Acid-based (made of DNA, RNA, or both) materials.

Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Area: Police/community interactions, police militarization, and police accountability technology like body-worn cameras

Department: Psychological Sciences
Research Area: Scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education

Department: Biology
Research Area: Antibiotic discovery from dairy farm-associated bacteria.

Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: Human perception, memory, and behavior in spatial tasks

Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Medical anthropology and women's health

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Organic Chemistry/Physical organic chemistry/Bioorganic Chemistry

Department: Biology
Research Area: Science Education

Department: Biology
Research Area: Our lab studies the cellular mechanisms underlying the development of neurons in the brain. We use the powerful genetic tools available in the fruit fly model organism to manipulate the serotonin system and ask how that changes intracellular processes, anatomical structures, and behavioral outcomes in the animal.

Department: Biology
Research Area: Our research lab studies how cells recognize and destroy dysfunctional protein molecules before these proteins cause harm.

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Organic Chemistry for reaction methods development (organic synthesis) and molecules with potential biological activity (medicinal chemistry).  Specific projects have focused on the formation of carbon-carbon bonds and the synthesis of heterocycles.

Department: Biology
Research Area: Understanding the cellular and molecular underpinnings of cardiovascular development and regeneration.

Department: Biology
Research Area: G-quadruplex nucleic acid structures and the cellular enzymes that unwind them with relevance to ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), dementia, and cancer.

Department: Modern Languages and Classics
Research Area: The 16th century French writer, Michel de Montaigne and his discourse on memory

Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Data Analytics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning

Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: Understanding and predicting sleep habits using methods from Health Psychology and Applied Social Psychology. Recent work has focused on how attitudes, social pressure, and control beliefs predict college student sleep habits (e.g., Tagler, Stanko, & Forbey, 2017, available upon request).

Department: Modern Languages and Classics
Research Area: Medieval French literature, medieval women writers.

Department: English
Research Area: Language learning, Coding data, Linguistics

Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Area: Policing, police training, police-citizen relations, public attitudes toward the police, crime prevention, correctional rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, and comparative studies.

Department: Biology
Research Area: Microbial Ecology