New Faculty Join the College
Lori Francis
Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Francis researches factors that influence the development of obesity in low-income and minority children, including family environment, neighborhood characteristics and socioeconomic status.
Rhonda BeLue
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Administration
BeLue is interested in methodologies for developing and evaluating interventions to reduce health disparities for chronic relapsing disease in low income families.
Jami DelliFraine
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Administration
DelliFrane focuses on the outcomes of care in children’s hospitals and quality of care issues for underserved and uninsured populations, safety-net facilities, and the relationships between patient volume and healthcare outcomes.
Kathryn Hynes
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies and Demography
Hynes researched the career trajectories of women during early parenthood. She also examined whether women’s work hours were linked to the time and financial resources in their children’s environment and whether this, in turn affected their children’s cognitive development.
Okhee Han
Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Han focuses on understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms of the intestinal iron absorption processes and the regulation of iron absorption response to demands over the life cycle as well as to the various patho-physiological conditions.
Mark Ivy
Assistant Professor, Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Ivy researches the intersection of greenways and active living, studing natural resource management and the recreation management perspectives.
Breffni Noone
Assistant Professor, Hospitality Management
Noone focuses on the interplay between revenue management and marketing, specifically the effect of certain revenue management practices on customer satisfaction.
Nicole McBrier
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
McBrier's interests include skeletal muscle regeneration following injury and the steps clinicians take to maximize the regeneration process via the use of therapeutic modalities.
Maya Misra
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Misra researches the neural correlates of language processing, with a specific interest in understanding reading and reading disorders; she seeks to understand the fundamental subskills which are required to attain reading proficiency.
Kim Kopenhaver Haidet
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Haidet focuses primarily on the biological and behavioral stress responses to caregiving by preterm infants.
John Moran
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Administration
Moran's interests include health economics, risk and insurance, and applied microeconomics.
