Browsing by: administrative leadership
Marvin Adams
Professor
Marvin Adams’s research interests are computational transport theory, efficient algorithms for massively parallel scientific and engineering calculations, and quantification of uncertainties in predictive science and engineering.
Robert Alaniz
Research Assistant Professor and Director
Robert Alaniz focuses his research on understanding important host and microbial mechanisms that instruct the development of pathogen-specific effector, memory, and protective T-cell immunity after infection with intracellular bacteria.
Mark Barteau
Professor
Mark Barteau’s research focuses on catalysis of reactions that are important for the chemical industry.
Sam Brody
Professor
Sam Brody studies coastal environmental planning, flood and natural hazards mitigation.
Ray Browning
Associate Training Specialist
Ray Browning is an expert on logistical and medical countermeasures used in response to pandemics and acts of terrorism.
Shawn Gibbs
Dean of the School of Public Health
Shawn Gibbs is an industrial hygienist whose expertise is in the disruption of highly infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 and Ebola virus disease.
Beverly Irby
Professor & Associate Dean
Beverly Irby’s primary research interests center on issues of social responsibility, including bilingual and English-as- a-second-language education, administrative structures, curriculum, and instructional strategies.
Dawn Jourdan
Professor and Executive Associate Dean
Dawn Jourdan’s research regarding the legal aspects of land use, affordable housing, historic preservation and aesthetics regulation at the federal, state, and local level, has been published in numerous academic journals and law reviews, including the Journal of Real Estate Research, International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, and the Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Bita Kash
Professor
Bita Kash’s research interests include organizational capacity for change and transformation, nursing home staffing and cost, and healthcare strategic planning and marketing.
Richard Kreider
Professor
Richard Kreider conducts research on nutrition and exercise, specifically the role of exercise and nutrition on health, disease, rehabilitation, performance, and/or health disparities/equity.
Carol LaFayette
Professor
Carol LaFayette collaborates with individuals from scientific disciplines to develop ways to experience connections among flora and fauna in rural landscapes.
Laura Mandell
Professor
Laura Mandell’s research focuses on Eighteenth-century literature, British Romantic literature, Digital Humanities.
Walter Peacock
Professor
Walter Gillis Peacock conducts research on urban planning, sustainability and resiliency issues, natural hazards, hazards mitigation and adaptation, long-term disaster recovery and quantitative methods.
Ray Pentecost
Professor of the Practice
Ray Pentecost is one of the nation’s foremost advocates and practitioners of healthcare facility evidence-based design.
David Threadgill
Professor and Director
David Threadgill’s laboratory uses the mouse as an experimental genetic model to investigate factors that contribute to inter-individual differences in health and disease.
Kathy Wall
Training Coordinator
Kathy Wall is an expert on first responder personnel needs, protective gear, and protocols used in response to pandemics and acts of terrorism.
Michael Waters
Professor
Michael Waters is an archaeologist and geoarchaeologist whose work focuses on the first inhabitants of the Americas.
Len Waterworth
Executive Professor
Len Waterworth focuses on new approaches in storm surge protection along the coastal spine of the Houston-Galveston region.