Faculty Research

HogsCollege of Agriculture & Human Sciences Faculty research interests include animal nutrition, the environmental impact of large confined animal feeding operations like dairies, soil, insects and their impact on crops and livestock, wildlife, agricultural education and leadership, and the problems experienced by aging and low income rural populations. more...

DubaiCollege of Business Administration Faculty research interestsinclude using computer technology in education, analysis of the impact of various industries on local economies, and workplace spirituality. more...

StudentsCollege of Education Faculty research interests include the effectiveness of textbooks and curricula, the validity of standardized high-stakes K-12 tests, school administration and leadership, cognitive psychology, post-traumatic stress in combat veterans returning from the Mid-East, and body composition and conditioning. more...

PianoCollege of Liberal and Fine Arts Faculty research interests include rhetoric in 19th century American religion and 21st century presidential debates, cultural history, French revolutionary ideology, postfeminism and chick culture, the impact of tourism on native Belize communities, gender and family roles, multiculturalism in literature, and music theory and interpretation. more...

TesttubesCollege of Science and Technology Faculty research interests include biodiversity, genetics, behavior-based robots, metal-organic frameworks that form crystalline porous materials, alkali metal polytellurides, using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to detect and characterize objects on the ground, using artificial intelligence to identify contact binary stars, and rural, Hispanic health care. more...