Faculty Mentor List

Undergraduate research fosters deep learning as students engage collaboratively under the guidance of a faculty mentor to create and solve a research problem. Watch a video to learn about our faculty mentors investing in our IN LSAMP Research Scholars.

Faculty Mentor Profiles

Philip Albiniak

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Research areas: Synthetic organic methodology

Douglas Bernstein

Assistant Professor of Biology

Research areas: RNA processing and modification

David Bwambok

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Kamal Islam

Professor of Biology

Research areas: Ornithology, Wildlife biology and Management, and Conservation Biology

Emil Khisamutdinov

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Research areas: RNA nanotechnology

Jagdish Khubchandani

Associate Professor of Health Science

Research areas: Clinical and Social Epidemiology, Community and Global Health

Mary Konkle

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Research areas: Chemistry

David Largent

Associate Lecturer of Computer Science

Research areas: Business Computer Applications, Pedagogy, Group stages of Development, and Diversity and Inclusivity

John McKillip

Professor of Biology

Bart Pederson

Associate Professor of Medical Education

Sundeep Rayat

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Research areas: Synthetic organic chemistry, physical organic chemistry, photochemistry, biological/medicinal chemistry, materials chemistry, computational chemistry

Sergiy Rosokha

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Robert Sammelson

Department Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry

Research areas: Synthetic methodology and synthesis of compounds

Wei Shi

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Michael

Skolby

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Jess Ward

Assistant Professor of Animal Behavior

Shaoen Wu

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Elsayed Zahran

Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry