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Faculty Senate Profiles

Dr. Sabita Busch
Dr.Sabita Busch


Name: Dr.Sabita Busch
Dept: Nursing
Office : BHS 230
Telephone: 995-3929
Email: sbusch@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 10 yrs
Years on Senate : 2 yrs
Research Interest: Women's health issues
Favorite pasttimes: Geography, Politics & Cricket

Robert B. Meeker
Robert B.Meeker

 

Name: Robert B. Meeker
Dept: Library
Office: LIB 219
Telephone : x2542
Email: rmeeker@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 30
Years on Senate: 5
Personal info: One son- a senior in college, Member of the Adirondack 46's-
a mountain climbing organization in upstate New York

Favorite saying or motto or song or movie - "Do what you can, with what you
have, where you are" Theodore Roosevelt


Lorraine A.J. Daniel
Lorraine A.J.Daniel

Name: :Lorraine A.J. Daniel
Dept: Counseling Center
Office : SUB 190
Telephone: 995-2383
Email: L-Daniel@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 5
Years on Senate: 3
Reserach/Teaching Interests: Memory and Intelligence;Abnormal Psychology; Psychological Testing
Personal info: Native Chicagoan, 13-year old son, Scorpio, divorced
Favorite saying or motto: Know thyself

 

Margaret Angela Kelly
Margaret Angela Kelly


Name: Margaret Angela Kelly
Dept: Elementary Education
Office : ED 210
Telephone r: 995-2351
Email: makelly@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 5
Years on Senate: 3
Reserach/Teaching Interests: Curriculum, instruction, classroom management
Personal info: Born in Ireland!
Paul Gomberg
Paul Gomberg
Name: Paul Gomberg
Dept: HPPS
Office : SCI 116B
Telephone : 995-2209
Email: pgomberg@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 17
Years on Senate: 1st Year
Research/Teaching Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, Marxism
Personal info: communist, member of Progressive Labor Party for 32 years, married for 39 years to Mary C. Gomberg
Favorite saying or motto or song or movie: Power to the Working Class

Virginia Shen
Virginia Shen

 

Name: Virginia Shen
Dept: Foreign Languages and Literatures
Telephone: 995-2058
Email: vshen@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 13
Yeatrs on Senate: 5
Reserach/Teaching Interests: Latin American Literature/Culture, Chinese
Language/Culture & Latin American Women Literature

Elizabeth Wittbrodt
Elizabeth Wittbrodt

Name: Elizabeth Wittbrodt
Dept: Occupational Therapy
Office : LIB 132-H
Telephone: 995-2530
Email: ewittbro@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 18
Years on Senate: 8
Reserach/Teaching Interests: Alternative medicine, Geriatric quality of life
Personal info: My personal goal is not to become a woman of "success," but a woman of "value"
Favorite saying: "Absence diminishes small loves and increases gret ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." -Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

 

Baba Songodina Ifatunji
Baba Songodina

 

Name: Baba Songodina Ifatunji
Department: Speech, Communications and Theatre
Office Number and location: LIB 116E
Telephone Number: 995-2419
Email: sifatunji@msn.com
Years at CSU: 15
Years on Senate: 2
Research/Teaching Interests: African American Studies and Theatre
Personal info: I'm a traditional Yoruba priest
Favorite saying or motto: Just countin' the stumps don't clear the field


Guang-Nay"Frank" Wang
Guang-Nay Wang
Name: Guang-Nay "Frank" Wang
Department: Math and Computer Science
Office Number and location: HWH 239
Telephone Number: 995-2168
Email: gwang@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 25
Years on Senate: 2
Research/Teaching Interests: Informational retrieval/optimization
Personal info: 3 daughters; 1 at Harvard Medical School; 1 at MIT; 1 at Wellesley
Favorite motto: Forgiveness

Devi Prasad V. Potluri
Devi Prasad V. Potluri

Name: Devi Prasad V. Potluri
Dept: Biological Sciences
Office : SCI 262
Telephone : 773 995 2199
email: vpotluri@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 3
Years on Senate: 1st
Research: Plant Tissue culture and Biotechnology, Plant Stress Physiology and Biochemistry
Teaching Interests: Biology/Plant Science/Plant Biotechnology /Horticulture


Yan Searcy
Yan Dominic Searcy

Name: Yan Dominic Searcy
Dept: Social Work and Sociology
Office : SCI 234
Telephone : 773-995-2364
email: ysearcy@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 12
Years on Senate: 7
Research/Teaching Interests: Child Welfare and Adolescents, Diversity, Social Policy
Personal info: Worked in a women's shoe store in high school.
Favorite saying/motto/movie/song: A Bronx Tale; Godfather 1-3; City of God; Do the Right Thing; Joy Luck Club; Mi Familia (hey, I couldn't choose just one!)


Dr. Jane L. Florine
Dr. Jane L. Florine

Name: Dr. Jane L. Florine
Dept: Music
Office : HWH 235
Telephone : (773) 995-2119
email: jflorine@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 10
Years on Senate: 1st.
Research/Teaching Interests: Music of Latin America (Argentina), ethnomusicology, Western art music
Personal info: I lived in Argentina, where I still have permanent residency, for over a dozen years. I was a symphony musician and a translator before I became an academic.
Favorite saying/motto/movie/song: "Opportunity is always present in the midst of crisis."

 

Marian E. Perkins
Marian E. Perkins

Name: Marian E. Perkins, Esq.
Department: Criminal Justice
Office: HWH #325
Telephone: (773) 995-2233
e-mail: mperkins@su.edu or revdrdlp@aol.com
Years at CSU: 7
Years on Senate: 3
Research/ Teaching Interests: Disproportionate Minority Confinement; Women in Prison and Drug Addiction: A Criminal Justice v. Public Health Dilemma
Personal Info: Married to Darrell L. Phillips; we have one daughter
Favorite Saying/ Motto: "Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Every Where" -
Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr.
Favorite: Movies: Do the Right Thing; The Wizard of Oz and An Officer and a Gentleman
Favorite Song: What's Going On

 

Soo Y. Kang
Soo Y. Kang

Name: Soo Y. Kang
Department: Ar and Design
Office Number and location: BHS 211
Telephone Number: 995-3914
Email: skang@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 10
Years on Senate: 1st year
Research/Teaching Interests: Modern/Contemporary Art; Women artists
Personal info: Just married!
Favorite song: Farewell, My Concubine -Amadeus

Asare Nkansah

Asarae Nkansah

Name: Asare Nkansah
Dept: Chemistry and Physics
Office: WSC 220A
Tel: x4503
email: ankansah@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 3 yrs
Years on Senate: since Sept 2007
Research interest: Development of new polymers for industrial applications
Teaching: Organic chemistry
Favotite saying: Don't stop thinking of and planning for tomorrow
favorite song: Agyatawuo

 

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Athanase Gahungu

Name: Athanase Gahungu

Dept: Educational Leadership, Curriculum and Foundations

Office: Education 231

Telephone: 2009

email: agahungu@csu.edu

Years at CSU:7

Years on Senate: 0

Research/Teaching Interests: employment outcomes of graduates; foreign-born faculty on US campuses

Personal info: Born in Burundi, Africa. Married and father of a daughter and two sons. B.A. in Letters and Social Sciences, University of Burundi; Diploma in English Language Teaching, Leeds University, UK (British Council Scholarship); M.Ed. in Educational Administration, Northern Arizona University (Fulbright Scholarship); Principal Certificate, State of Arizona; Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, Northern Arizona University. Outstanding Professor Award, CTC/CSU Alumni Association, 2005; Distinguished Educator Award, College of Education, CSU, 2005; The Global Ambassador Award, CSU, 2004.

Favorite saying/motto/movie/song: Thank God It’s Today!

 

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Sarah Buck

Name: Sarah Buck
Dept: Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
Office: JDC 220
Telephone : X3651
Email: sbuck@csu.edu
Years at CSU: 1
Years on Senate: just started
Research/Teaching Interests: research effects if physical fitness on cognitive function in children; I teach upper level undergraduate courses and graduate courses in sport psychology, sport sociology, measurement and evaluation, and research methods
Personal info: Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Kinesiology
Favorite saying or motto or song or movie: To my students: Proofread!

 

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Kelvin Gilchrist

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Name: Kelvin Gilchrist
Dept:Technology and Education
Office:Education Building 213
Telephone : 773-995-2080
Email: kelvingilchrist@gmail.com
Years at CSU: 2
Years on Senate: 2
Research/Teaching Interests:Graphic organizers for at-risk students
Personal info:Love to travel
Favorite saying or motto or song or movie:"let it live"

 

   

 

 
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