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MU-ADVANCE Welcomes New Female Faculty
MU-ADVANCE is pleased to welcome five new female tenure-track faculty in the STEM disciplines at Marshall. As part of our Faculty Development Initiative, MU-ADVANCE representatives met with each new faculty member to discuss how they are assimilating to campus and to identify challenges faced by new faculty. In addition, this initiative is currently piloting a mentoring program to foster the future development of a university-wide mentoring system for new faculty. MU-ADVANCE hosted a networking lunch on September 10, 2007 to greet and introduce new faculty to campus. Twenty-one faculty representing 9 departments attended the luncheon, which focused on the challenges of concurrently establishing a research lab and maintaining teaching responsibilities at Marshall. 
Dr. Maria Babiuc,
a theoretical physicist, joins the Department
of Physics and Physical Science. She has
researched black holes and gravitational radiation,
and is interested in developing research in
numerical relativity at Marshall. Currently
teaching Introduction to Modern Physics and Modern
Physics Lab, she is involved in teaching physics at
both the introductory and advanced levels.
Dr. Piyali Dasgupta joins the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Toxicology in the School of Medicine. Her research examines the effects of nicotine (the active component of cigarettes) in regulating cellular responses such as programmed cell death and cell growth, in the context of lung cancer. She will be teaching Lung Physiology.
 Dr.
Bin Wang joins
the Chemistry Department as a biochemist and a
specialist in nanobiotechnology. Her research focuses on RNA structure
analysis, with interests including the
fabrication of a micro-total analysis system to
conduct RNA studies, the determination of RNA
structure by single molecule approaches, and the
engineering of RNA as cargo to deliver drugs to
target positions within cells. She is currently involved with teaching
Introduction to Analytical Chemistry laboratory.
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Dr. Sarita Bassil will join the Art and Joan
Weisberg Division of Engineering and Computer
Science in January 2008. Dr. Bassil is a computer
scientist with expertise
in workflow
technology and business process applications,
including automated negotiations, transportation processes,
medical processes, and implementation issues of
information systems.
Dr. Wendy
Trzyna has been hired as a microbiologist in the Department
of Biological Sciences. Her research interests
include investigating how
Acanthamoeba, a single-celled eukaryotic microbe, sense and respond
at the molecular level to stress in the environment.
Of particular interest are specific genes and
signaling pathways involved in stress responses, as
well as whole genome analyses of amoebae from
diverse environments. She is currently teaching
Microbial Genetics.