Faculty
Richard Bauer
Ph.D. Chemistry Education, Purdue University
Faculty Head, Science, Mathematics and Social Science
Senior Lecturer
Richard Bauer completed his B.S. degree in chemistry at Saginaw Valley State University. While pursuing his undergraduate degree he worked at Dow Chemical as a student technologist. He pursued master’s and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry education at Purdue University, studying learning and teaching in lower-division chemistry courses. After Purdue, he spent two years at Clemson University as a visiting assistant professor. As general chemistry coordinator on the Tempe campus, he implemented an inquiry-based laboratory program. Dr. Bauer has taught introductory and general chemistry courses as well as a methods of chemistry teaching course. He is especially fond of teaching introductory chemistry because of the diversity of students enrolled. In addition to general chemistry lab development, Dr. Bauer has interests in student visualization of abstract, molecular-level concepts; TA training; and methods of secondary school chemistry teaching. In addition to his scholarly interests, he plays the piano, sings and directs choirs.
Contact Information:
UCENT 353
(602) 496-0620
E-mail: rbauer@asu.edu
Jenna Behm
Faculty Associate
Contact Information:
UCENT 300
(602) 496-0658
E-mail: Jenna.Behm@asu.edu
Apple (Irene) Bloom
Lecturer, Mathematics and Mathematics Education
Contact Information:
UCENT 339
(602) 496-0603
E-mail: irene.bloom@asu.edu
URL: http://math.la.asu.edu/~bloom/
Jenifer Boshes
Lecturer, Mathematics
Contact Information:
UCENT 360P
(602) 496-0672
E-mail: jboshes@asu.edu
URL: http://www.public.asu.edu/~jboshes/
Susan Boucher
Instructor, Science
M.S. Chemistry, Arizona State University
Contact Information:
UCENT 352AB
(602) 496-0629
E-mail: Susan.Boucher@asu.edu
Patrick Daydif
Instructor
Contact Information:
UCENT 336AC
(602) 496-0599
E-mail: daydif@mainex1.asu.edu
Toni Farley
Lecturer, Computer Science
Toni R. Farley is a lecturer in the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering and the School of Letters and Sciences at Arizona State University. She received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from ASU. Dr. Farley joined ASU in 2001 as a research associate in the Information and Systems Assurance Laboratory, where she served as assistant director from 2003 to 2006. She has been a lecturer since 2006. Dr. Farley is the recipient of a graduate research fellowship from AT&T Labs–Research. Her research interests include networks, security, informatics and cross-disciplinary inquiry.
Contact Information:
UCENT 360B
E-mail: toni@asu.edu
URL: http://www.public.asu.edu/~tfarley
Grace Galliano, Ph.D.
Faculty Associate
Grace Galliano graduated from City College of New York with a major concentration in Spanish. At the New School for Social Research, Grace earned a master’s degree in social psychology. A move to Atlanta, Georgia soon followed and several more years as addiction counselor and administrator for the Georgia Department of Offender Rehabilitation. Determined to change careers, she taught courses at Atlanta University and DeKalb Community College. She began a doctoral program in social psychology at Georgia State University and secured a full-time position in the psychology department at Kennesaw State University. Grace was recognized for her teaching and mentoring efforts by the Southeastern Psychological Association. She co-authored a college textbook on human sexuality and sole-authored of a college textbook on the Psychology of Gender.
Family responsibilities led her back to New York State and several years of teaching at Monroe Community College gave Grace a deep appreciation of the role of the community colleges in higher education. She continues to view the role of teacher as a sacred one in society and hopes she can continue in that role for many years. Aside from teaching and writing, Grace's other pleasures include seeing her daughter grow and blossom, cooking, photography, ethnic music, and the ongoing struggle to garden successfully in the Sonoran Desert.
Contact Information:
UCENT 300
E-mail: grace.galliano@asu.edu
Gary Grossman
Ph.D. Sociology, Purdue University
Associate Professor
Contact Information:
Santa Catalina (SANCA) 251L
(480) 727-1533
E-mail: Gary.Grossman@asu.edu
Jason Houtchens
Ph.D. Chemistry, Arizona State University
Lecturer
Jason Houtchens’ chemistry background includes teaching organic chemistry laboratories and lectures while attending Arizona State University for his M.S. (2002) and his Ph.D. (2006), both in the field of chemistry. Since that time he has been teaching the Introductory Chemistry Laboratory and Chemistry in Society courses at the Downtown Phoenix campus.
Jason’s interests include teaching the fundamentals of chemistry and scientific writing to a broad range of students, organic synthesis and drug design. He is also involved with programs that try to introduce science to the local high schools and is currently involved with the curriculum committee in the School of Letters and Sciences.
Contact Information:
UC 344AB
(602) 496-0607
E-mail: Jason.Houtchens@asu.edu
Syed Hussaini
Ph.D. Sociology, Arizona State University
Faculty Associate
Contact Information:
UCENT 300
(602) 496-0658
E-mail: Syed.Hussaini@asu.edu
Juan Carlos Jiménez
Instructor, Mathematics and Informatics
Originally from Cuba, Dr. Jiménez is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, with a double major in marine sciences and mathematics. Several years of his career as a marine biologist were spent conducting population dynamics research and rescue (stranding) of whales, manatees and other marine mammals in the North Atlantic (including Canada and Newfoundland) and waters of the Caribbean.
Previous to moving to Arizona, Dr. Jiménez taught at different colleges and universities in New England, the University of Puerto Rico and was a lecturer/consultant to the Science Museum in the Dominican Republic, in addition to their university and government system where he led the first expedition to study the Humpback whale population in the northern waters of the Dominican.
Co-author of two math text books, Dr. Jiménez brings a positive, hands-on approach to his classroom while helping rid students of any math anxieties they may have and challenging those who excel in this field.
Contact Information:
UCENT 360BB
(602) 496-0606
E-mail: jcjimenez@asu.edu
Cayle S. Lisenbee
Ph.D. Molecular and Cellular Biology, Arizona State University
Lecturer
After graduating from the University of Puget Sound with a B.S. degree in biology, Dr. Lisenbee migrated to Arizona to pursue graduate-level interests in molecular and cellular biology at Arizona State University. Working under the tutelage of Richard Trelease, he published several papers on the development of plant cell peroxisomes and their role in managing oxidative stress conditions in plants. He finished this work with a Ph.D. degree in 2002, and then immediately began post-doctoral research with Laurence Miller at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz. This rewarding experience honed his skills in advanced fluorescence microscopy and protein biochemistry and yielded several additional papers on the structure and function of an important receptor molecule that has ties to certain pancreatic cancers. He then was courted in late fall 2006 by ASU’s new Downtown Phoenix campus to develop a microbiology program for newly transplanted students in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation. He began teaching microbiology and general biology in the spring of 2007 and since then has played active roles in curriculum development, laboratory safety, science program expansion, and community outreach. His recent and continued focus on cell biological research now is balanced by emerging interests in novel teaching strategies, how student-teacher relationships impact student success and retention, and how outreach activities with area high schools can improve the science preparedness of ASU’s incoming freshmen.
Contact Information:
UCENT 355
(602) 496-0641
E-mail: lisenbee.cayle@asu.edu
Ryan Melendez
M.A. Mathematics, Arizona State University
Lecturer
Ryan Melendez is a lecturer of mathematics and statistics at the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus. He earned his M.A. in mathematics from Arizona State University. Before coming to the Downtown Phoenix campus, Ryan was a full-time faculty member in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the Tempe campus since 2003. He has taught various courses for ASU over the past several years including college algebra, intermediate algebra, brief calculus, college mathematics, finite mathematics, mathematics for business analysis and elementary statistics. He also taught with ASU’s Bridge program, the math/science honors summer program through the Institute for Strengthening the Understanding of Mathematics and Sciences (SUMS), and the “Baseball Diamonds” Learning Community though the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His mathematical research interests include algebra, combinatorics and graph theory. He also has a research interest in undergraduate mathematics education.
Contact Information:
UCENT 343
(602) 496-0605
E-mail: melendez@asu.edu
URL: http://math.asu.edu/~melendez/
Rajni Nair
Faculty Associate
Contact Information:
UCENT 300
(602) 496-0658
E-mail: rajni25@asu.edu
John Olson
Ph.D., Arizona State University
Lecturer
Contact Information:
UCENT 345
(602) 496-0609
E-mail: JOHN.OLSON@asu.edu
Mary Jane Parmentier
Ph.D. International Studies, University of Denver
Lecturer
Contact Information:
Santa Catalina (SANCA) 251J
(480) 727-1156
E-mail: MJ.Parmentier@asu.edu
Tonya Penkrot
Instructor, Anatomy and Physiology
Contact Information:
UCENT 300
(602) 496-4000
E-mail: Tonya.Penkrot@asu.edu
Wanda Weber, Ph.D.
Instructor
Contact Information:
UCENT 330AB
E-mail: WANDA.WEBER@asu.edu
Dave Wells, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Wells is working to improve democratic discourse by making national, state and local policy debates more accessible to the public—and seeking to empower students to become active citizens. For more on his teaching and other activities, visit http://www.public.asu.edu/~wellsda/teaching.”
Contact Information:
UCENT 351
(602) 496-0615
E-mail: DAVID.WELLS@asu.edu