The Board of Advisors is an advisory council composed of alumni and friends of the School of Natural Science and Mathematics. The members volunteer their time and talents and serve as a resource to strengthen the quality of programming and student experiences in the academic program areas offered by the School of Natural Science and Mathematics - Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Psychology.
Board of Advisors members might choose to be engaged with students and faculty in some of the following ways:
Ordinarily, members serve terms from one to three years in length, beginning in August of each academic year, as appropriate to their particular needs and availability. The Board of Advisors meets formally once per academic semester, with meetings beginning in the afternoon and concluding that same evening. Informal contact and communications take place as needed throughout the academic year.The Board of Advisors offers insights and guidance of significant benefit to our students, faculty, and, of course, to the Dean. Their interactions with some very talented students and faculty can only serve to open up new opportunities and collaborative possibilities that Board members find as rewarding as we do.
Cabrera, N., He, M., Chen, Y., & Reich, S. M. (2022). Risks and Protective Factors of Hispanic Families and Their Young Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Children (Basel, Switzerland), 9(6), 792. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9060792
Cheong, Y., Zhu, Q., Wang, C., He, M., & Ye, Y. (2022). COVID-19 Stressful Life Events and Chinese Adolescents’ Mental Health: Examining Resilience, Peer Relationship, and Parenting as Moderators. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 02724316221114091. https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316221114091
Hoerndli, F. J., Brockie, P. J., Wang, R., Mellem, J. E., Kallarackal, A., Doser, R. L., Pierce, D. M., Madsen, D. M., Maricq, A. V. 2022. MAPK signaling and a mobile scaffold complex regulate AMPA receptor transport to modulate synaptic strength. Cell Reports. 38(13) 11057. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110577
Nedungadi, S., Michels, O., Kreke, P., Raker, J., Murphy, K. Effect of a Representative Sample of Internally Calibrated Mental Effort and Polytomously Scored Data on Representing Cognitive Efficiency; J. Chem. Educ. 2022, 99, 3, 1326–1335.
Krueger, S.B., Lanzendorf, A.N., Jeon, H., Zimmerman S.C. Selective and Reversible Assembly on the DNA and RNA Repeat Sequences in Myotonic Dystrophy. ChemBioChem, 2022, e202200260, https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202200260.
Krueger, S.B., Zimmerman S.C. Dynamic Covalent Template-Guided Screen for Nucleic Acid-Targeting Agents. JMedChem, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.2c01086.
Anoh R, Burke KA, Schmelyun DP, Lombardi PM: Generation of Monoubiquitin and K63-Linked Polyubiquitin Chains for Protein Interaction Studies. Methods Mol Biol 2022, 2444:271-282.
Lombardi PM, Haile S, Rusanov T, Rodell R, Anoh R, Baer JG, Buke KA, Gray LN, Hacker AR, Kebreau KK, Ngandu CK, Orland HA, Osei-Asante E, Schmelyun DP, Shorb DE, Syed SH, Veilleux JM, Majumdar A, Mosammaparast N, Wolberger C: The ASCC2 CUE domain in the ALKBH3-ASCC DNA repair complex recognizes adjacent ubiquitins in K63-linked polyubiquitin. J Biol Chem 2022, 298:101545.
Zhang, Yue, Yan He, Eric G. Sakowski, and Sarah P. Preheim. "Influence of Simplified Microbial Community Biofilms on Bacterial Retention in Porous Media under Conditions of Stormwater Biofiltration." Microbiology spectrum 9, no. 2 (2021): e01105-21.
Piechnik, D., Hartnett, R., Hamman, E., McHugh, R., Sawyer, S. July 18-22. The struggle is valid: Increasing student science identity and quantitative skills. 2022 Biology and Mathematics Educators (BIOME) Institute, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/4C8F-2F96
Angle, J. & Hartnett, R.N. March 27-30. “Strengthening Teachers' Confidence to Mentor Students in STEM Research and Science & Engineering Fair Competitions: PD Models for In-person and Virtual Formats” NARST Annual International Conference. Vancouver, Canada.
He, M., Lin, L., Wang, X., Zhang, E. & He, W. (2022). Facilitators between infant walking and vocabulary increases: Gestural communication and object exploration International Congress of Infant Studies, Ottawa, Canada.
Heinold, Brian: "Some Original Estimation/Fermi Problems," MAA MD-DC-VA Section Meeting, Montgomery College, April 2022.
Generalization of a method for the detection of item order effects: Implications for research and practice. P. Kreke, M.Reeves, K. Neiles, O. Michels, T. Pentecost, J. Raker, and K. Murphy, Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE), July 2022.
Understanding Where an Item Lives: Designing and Detecting Item Environment Effects Including Internal Calibration of Student S. Nedungadi, O. Michels, P.J. Kreke, J.R. Raker, K.L. Murphy, BCCE Conference, July 2022.
Symposium Organizer: Engaging Students in Organic Chemistry; P. Kreke and B. Murray, BCCE Conference, July, 2022.
NAAHP New Advisor Webinar: Tools! What’s Available through NAAHP. November, 2021. P.Kreke organizer.
NAAHP New Advisor Webinar: Advising Best Practices. April, 2022. B. Brookins, and A. Tan organizers with P.Kreke, contributor.
NAAHP New Advisor Webinar: NAAHP Conference: Tips and Strategies. June, 2022. P.Kreke organizer.
Template-Selected, Reversible Assembly of Therapeutic Agents for Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1. Sarah B. Krueger*, Amie N. Lanzendorf, Steven C. Zimmerman, 262nd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Division of Biological Chemistry Awards Session, March 2022.
Directing Groups for Pd-Catalyzed Acylation and Rh-Catalyzed Decarbonylation. Sarah B. Krueger*, Claire J. Benedict, Charles H. Michels, Jeffrey B. Johnson, 262nd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 2022.
Oral Presentation - “Utilizing SEC-SAXS to characterize polyubiquitin binding by the ASCC2 CUE domain” 13th Annual SIBYLS BioSAXS Workshop, held remotely (August 17, 2022)
Poster Presentation - “The ASCC2 CUE Domain Selectively Binds K63-Linked Polyubiquitin Chains by Simultaneously Interacting with Adjacent Ubiquitins” Anoh R, Beck ZG, Gurcsik AN, Hacker AR, Latin T, Okoh JO, Shorb, DE, Lombardi PM. The Ubiquitin and Ub-like Proteins Conference: Cell Functions and Therapeutic Targeting, Southbridge, Massachusetts (July 2022)
AM Zahorik, BD Ferrell, P Gaffney, E Sakowski, KE Wommack, SW Polson. (2022) Host Genotype Correlates with Subsets of the American Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Microbiome. American Society for Microbiology. Washington D.C. (Poster)
V Wallace, E Sakowski, S Preheim, C Prasse. (2022) Antiviral drugs as previously unrecognized contributors to antimicrobial resistance. American Society for Microbiology. Washington D.C. (Poster)
Husak, J.F., Belanger, R.M., Johnson, M.A., Karsten, K.B., LeFauve, M.K., Macrander, J.C., Sanger, T.J., Taylor-Burt, K.R., and Whitenack, L.B. 2022. Integrative biology (and beyond) at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions. Poster Presentation. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting. Phoenix, AZ.
Hartnett, R., and Sakowski, E. “BRC-BIO: Connecting abiotic and biotic influences on harmful algal blooms: A scalable, multidisciplinary approach to student research at a primarily undergraduate institution” National Science Foundation, Building Research Capacity in Biology. $499,543--Submitted June 2022. Currently pending review.
Kula, A., Hartnett, R., and Sakowski, E. “Advancing Environmental Stewardship through Research and Education: Environmental Chamber to Support Study in the Environmental Sciences at a Catholic Undergraduate University”. Marion I and Henry J Knott Foundation. 2022-2023. $60,000.
R.C. Fuson Memorial Travel Award for National ACS Conference, Spring 2022
Illinois Women in Chemistry Inclusive Leadership Award, Fall 2021
Kula, A., Hartnett, R., and Sakowski, E. “Advancing Environmental Stewardship through Research and Education: Environmental Chamber to Support Study in the Environmental Sciences at a Catholic Undergraduate University”. Marion I and Henry J Knott Foundation. 2022-2023. $60,000.
NIH R15 Administrative Supplement application “Determining the structural basis of polyubiquitin signaling in response to DNA alkylation damage” (February 2022) – $49,586
Hartnett, R., and Sakowski, E. “BRC-BIO: Connecting abiotic and biotic influences on harmful algal blooms: A scalable, multidisciplinary approach to student research at a primarily undergraduate institution” National Science Foundation, Building Research Capacity in Biology. $499,543--Submitted June 2022. Currently pending review.
Kula, A., Hartnett, R., and Sakowski, E. “Advancing Environmental Stewardship through Research and Education: Environmental Chamber to Support Study in the Environmental Sciences at a Catholic Undergraduate University”. Marion I and Henry J Knott Foundation. 2022-2023. $60,000.
Kula, A., Hall, E., and Sakowski, E. “Plant-microbial interactions across the season and in response to management.” Maryland Native Plant Society. April 2022. $2,992.