College of Sciences and Humanities
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Area: Victimization; Victimology; Sexual Violence; Intimate Partner Violence (DV)
Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Election Administration, Technology of Voting Systems
Department: English
Research Area: Masculinity and queerness in early and nineteenth-century American literature and culture
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: Chemistry
Research Area: First semester chemistry students can be nervous about identifying and handling lab equipment. I’m interested in developing learning activities to help these students better prepare for their lab experience.
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: Biology
Research Area: Studying and mitigating the progression of Colitis in mouse models
Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Video game preservation and sustainable game development.
Department: English
Research Area: Contemporary Irish literature
Department: Biology
Research Area: Biomechanical and physiological mechanisms underlying animal locomotion, with the goal of understanding what processes govern the interaction between animals and their environment.
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: English, Immersive Learning & High Impact Practices
Research Area: Qualitative research on teaching and learning in higher education
Department: Environment, Geology and Natural Resources
Research Area: Hydrology, water resources, natural resources, water quality, geography, GIS, climate change
Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Prehistoric archaeology of the North American midcontinent, with a particular focus on acquisition, trade, exchange and production of copper materials
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: Chemistry
Research Area: Structure and function of the protein mitoNEET, a protein implicated in type-2 diabetes, Parkinson's, and breast cancer.
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Area: Police/community interactions, police militarization, and police accountability technology like body-worn cameras
Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: Interconnections between work, family, and gender across the life span
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Synthesis of semiconductor materials and their applications in energy conversion (photovoltaic or solar cells) and environmental remediation, as well as electrochemical scanning probe microscopy studies of surface, molecules, and materials.
Department: Psychological Sciences
Research Area: Scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education
Department: Modern Languages and Classics
Research Area: Kanji recognition, teaching language, culture and perspectives, Japanese linguistics, developing speaking fluency, and translation
Department: Biology
Research Area: Science Education
Department: Biology
Research Area: Antibiotic discovery from dairy farm-associated bacteria.
Department: History
Research Area: Indiana Artist biographies, Pioneer iron industry, Pioneer taverns, and Indiana pioneers
Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: Human perception, memory, and behavior in spatial tasks
Department: Biology
Research Area: Plant Systematics, Modelling trait evolution, Phylogeny, Bioinformatics
Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Investigating Relationships between marginalized communities and the ways in which they use entheogenic plants and fungi in the healing of trauma
Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Medical anthropology and women's health
Department: Biology
Research Area: Fish collections in the field, and macroinvertebrate collection and identification.
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Organic Chemistry/Physical organic chemistry/Bioorganic Chemistry
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: First semester chemistry students can lack experience with laboratory techniques and proper use of equipment. I am interested in developing videos to help these students better prepare for their lab experience.
Department: Biology
Research Area: Science Education
Department: Criminal Justice & Criminology
Research Area: Criminological theory; juvenile delinquency; bullying.
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: Chemistry
Research Area: Intermolecular Interactions
Department: Biology
Research Area: Our research lab studies how cells recognize and destroy dysfunctional protein molecules before these proteins cause harm.
Department: Applied Anthropology Laboratories
Research Area: Archaeology, Collections Management, Artifacts
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: Geography
Research Area: Relations between history and geography of Peace Corps volunteers in Latin America
Department: Biology
Research Area: Understanding the cellular and molecular underpinnings of cardiovascular development and regeneration.
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Utilize medicinal and organic chemistry to understand biological systems
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: History
Research Area: The Indiana Synagogue Mapping Project (ISMP) is a survey of all the built-to-be synagogues across the State of Indiana. Archival documents need to be found to supplement the survey data
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Environmental Physical Chemistry and Surface Science
Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Data Analytics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning
Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Internet security & privacy issues, networked applications, and emerging technologies
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: Computer Science
Research Area: Cybersecurity
Department: English
Research Area: African American Literature, African American Studies, Archival Research, Periodical Studies
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Research Area: Light variability of eclipsing binary stars.
Department: English
Research Area: Language learning, Coding data, Linguistics
Department: Criminal Justice & Criminology
Research Area: Policing, Death Penalty, Drug Use, and Criminological Theory
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: Animal behavior, embryonic learning, social communication, and effects of anthropogenic environmental change on behavior
Department: Biology
Research Area: Microbial Ecology
Department: Environment, Geology, and Natural Resources
Research Area: Understanding of the biogeochemical and hydrological cycle with in the terrestrial ecosystem, and the exchange of greenhouse gases across the land-atmosphere interface and riverine fluxes across land-ocean interface
Department: Chemistry
Research Area: How metal and semiconductor nanomaterials can be prepared, how they interact with various molecules, and how they initiate chemical reactions when irradiated with light.