SUNY Oswego welcomes tenure-track faculty and staff from the School of Business and School of Education. Top from left are Efstathios Kefallonitis, marketing and management; Joggeshwar Das, School of Education; David McLain, marketing and management; and Donald Cram, accounting, finance and law. Bottom from left are Nichole Brown, Field Placement Office; Angela Perrotto, educational administration; and Weston Kensinger, health promotion and wellness.

New faculty and staff for the fall 2010 semester include (top row, from left) Paul Voglewede Jr. of the psychology department, Harold Applin of the technology department and Roger Taylor of the psychology department; and (seated from left) Lily Soltani-Amadi of the mathematics department, Christina Leclerc of the psychology department, Sofia Windstam of the biological sciences department and Marianne Hromalik of the computer science department.

Laura Spenceley, an assistant professor of counseling and psychological services, explores learning disabilities, their diagnosis, and improving the validity of diagnosis an intervention.

Theo Rhodes, an assistant professor of psychology, uses data analysis to look at spatial relations and neurological variables such as hand-eye coordination.

Christopher Chandler, an assistant professor of biology, is probing the relationship between genetics and sexual development by using Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), a tiny worm that allows for rapid experimentation.

Amy Bidwell, an assistant professor in health promotion and wellness, is studying an interesting relationship in fitness and diet. She continues to explore whether those who exercise frequently counteract the potential negative effects of consuming products with high fructose corn syrup.

Isabelle Bichindaritz, a new assistant professor of computer science, is seeking a solution to the ever-expanding siloed nature of research. Her latest project involves building a search engine that can probe research in different journals, aggregate the information in one interdisciplinary source, and reason from it to facilitate the transfer of knowledge.

Our Early Start grant program brings new faculty to Oswego over the summer so they can work on their research and get a jump on learning their new surroundings.