The Honors College Faculty Fellows program is a two-year fellowship inviting exceptional faculty from across the university to teach Honors courses, mentor Honors students and engage in the vibrant intellectual community of the Honors College.
Please contact Patrick McDevitt, Academic Director of the Honors College.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication and Center for Cognitive Science
Email: lhahn2@buffalo.edu
Lindsay Hahn is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Center for Cognitive Science at the University at Buffalo, SUNY where she directs the Media Psychology and Morality Laboratory. Hahn earned her PhD in Communication from Michigan State University in 2018. Her research investigates the cognitive processes surrounding media use and effects in audiences across the lifespan. In particular, she researches entertainment media’s effects on children’s moral attitudes and behaviors, and separately, media’s role in the radicalization of violent extremists.
Assistant Dean for Global Partnerships; Associate Clinical Professor
School of Social Work
Email: lalewis@buffalo.edu
Laura Lewis’ work has focused on expanding international opportunities for students and creating virtual classroom collaborations around global issues. She has facilitated academic partnerships with colleagues in Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, India and Mexico, and recently helped to launch the new First Year Global Experience in Costa Rica. Lewis was the recipient of a Fulbright award for International Educators in 2018. She teaches courses in the School of Social Work’s MSW Program and in the School’s undergraduate minor in Community Organizing. Before joining the School of Social Work, Lewis practiced social work in both clinic and school settings. Her work included advocacy for increased access to mental health services, and on reducing stigma.
Associate Professor
Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Email: em1@buffalo.edu
Elizabeth Mietlicki-Baase is an associate professor in the Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences. She earned her MA in Psychology and PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience at UB, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. The focus of her research is the neural controls of energy balance and motivated behavior. She investigates how feeding-relevant hormones act on reward-related nuclei in the brain to control energy intake, weight gain, and motivation for palatable food. She also examines neurobiological changes that are associated with altered satiation processing, including in the context of Prader-Willi Syndrome as well as binge eating behavior. These projects may aid in the identification of improved treatments for overweight and obesity.
Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies
School of Law
Email: jgmilles@buffalo.edu
Professor James Milles is vice dean for undergraduate studies at the University at Buffalo School of Law, where he teaches in the areas of legal ethics and information privacy. Milles earned his master's degrees in English (1980) and Library and Information Science (1982) at The University of Texas at Austin, and a JD at Saint Louis University School of Law (1990).
Clinical Associate Professor
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Email: robrocta@buffalo.edu
Richard O’Brocta is a clinical associate professor in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is also the Director of Experiential Education and works to help students obtain Pharmacy Rotations as part of the curriculum. O’Brocta has an interest in pharmacy-related math and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He is excited to launch his innovative course titled Math and Medications the Foundations for Safe Patient Care.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Organization and Human Resources Management
Email: aishaoma@buffalo.edu
Aisha K. O’Mally works in the School of Management, Organization, and Human Resources department. She teaches mostly business communication and organizational behavior. She also is very active in the School of Management’s Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness programs through leadership coaching and executive training. She is the academic advisor for the School of Management Minority Alliance (SOMMA) student groups and the SOM Student Diversity & Inclusion Committee. O’Mally is passionate about teaching, coaching and research.
Assistant Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Email: arriccel@buffalo.edu
Professor Adrián Rodríguez Riccelli was born in Austin, Texas, but growing up he also lived in Washington D.C., Houston, TX, and in New Jersey (NYC metro area). Riccelli's mother is from Venezuela and his father was born in Panamá but also lived in Puerto Rico. Riccelli earned a BA in Global Studies from the University of New Haven in Connecticut, after which he became interested in the Spanish language, in how language works, and in bilingualism; then, he went on to earn an MA in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Florida, and a PhD in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to Spanish and Portuguese language, his teaching and research deal with processes of variation or competition between form-and-function pairings in language structure, how those processes are affected in situations of language contact or multilingualism, how they are represented in the mind, and how they are affected by the social, cultural, and historical conditions in which speakers find themselves. One aspect of his research and teaching considers the language Cabo-Verdean Creole, a Portuguese-based language with substantial influence from Mandinka, Wolof, and Fula, among other languages spoken on the adjacent African mainland. Another aspect of his research and teaching deals with Spanish across language contact scenarios, such as throughout the Afro-Hispanic diaspora in the Americas, and among the tens of millions of speakers in the USA, and with Spanish in digital text such as on social media and in research corpora.
Associate Teaching Professor
Department of Music
Email: drstryko@buffalo.edu
Derek R. Strykowski is an associate teaching professor of historical musicology at the University at Buffalo’s Department of Music. As a scholar, Strykowski investigates the artistic impact of the music publishing business upon the work of nineteenth-century concert composers in both Europe and, increasingly, the United States. His recent journal articles include an exploration of the strategies by which composers and publishers negotiated questions of musical style and a quantitative study of the professional relationships that Romantic-era composers formed with publisher Breitkopf & Härtel. Digital projects include Musical Geographies of Boston, 1865–1915, the recipient of a 2023 research grant from the UB Digital Scholarship Studio & Network. Strykowski also maintains a second program of research involving the formal empirical analysis of sixteenth-century polyphony. He holds a Ph.D. in historical musicology from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Learn more about his research at https://dstrykowski.com/.
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Design and Innovation
Email: olgawodo@buffalo.edu
Olga Wodo is an associate professor in the Department of Materials Design and Innovation (MDI) at UB. She does research in microstructure informatics and computational materials science. Her research involves leveraging machine learning to accelerate the pace of discovering and designing new materials. She uses algorithms from graph theory, the same we use in the navigation apps on our cell phones to reach new destinations, to understand how charges reach their destinations in electronic systems such as batteries. Wodo applies her ideas to the design of organic solar cells, additive manufacturing, and, more recently, mycelium-based materials. During the pandemic, she developed an interest in chocolate making following the bean-to-bar movement and gained practical knowledge about the importance of processing conditions on crystallization.