Research Team

Principal Investigators

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

    208 Davis Hall

    Phone: (716) 645-2771

    lfolks@buffalo.edu

    Volunteer Professor
    Department of Electrical Engineering

    Specialty/Research Focus: 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 Social Sciences
    California Polytechnic State University

    Specialty/Research Interests:: 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
    Librarian Emerita, University Libraries
    Co-Director, National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
    University at Buffalo

    Specialty/Research Interests:: Specialty/Research Interests: Academic science librarianship; scientific scholarly communication; case based pedagogy; science education

  • Laurene.
    Laurene M. Tumiel Berhalter, PhD
    PhD, University at Buffalo

    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:: 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