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Board of Advisors

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.

How Board Members are Engaged with Students

Board of Advisors members might choose to be engaged with students and faculty in some of the following ways:

  • In coordination with appropriate faculty, help to arrange internships, "shadowing" opportunities, and other experiential learning components.
  • As a resource for students in preparing for admission to professional and graduate schools.
  • Participate in formal meetings on campus to learn about our programs, to interact directly with students and faculty and other Board of Advisors' members.
  • As a general resource and "sounding board" for the Dean of the School of Natural Science and Mathematics regarding all aspects of the marketing, recruitment and success of our programs.

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.

Board of Advisors

  • Dr. William Paul Beierschmitt, C'80
  • Dr. Rebecca Burke, C'05
  • Dr. Joseph P. Cardinale, C'68
  • Dr. Thomas A. Cavalieri, C'73
  • Mr. Joseph A. DeMino, C'82
  • Dr. Ethan Dmitrovsky
  • Dr. Edward A. Dolan, C'67
  • Dr. Larry Donato, Jr., C'96
  • Dr. H. Stephen Fletcher, C'63
  • Ms. Kristy Galante, C'00
  • Dr. David Ginty, C'84
  • Mr. Geoffrey E. Grant
  • Dr. Cynthia Lauta Kratz, C'99
  • Ms. Jessica Martin, C'03
  • Dr. Ewy Mathe', C'00
  • Dr. Frank C. McGeehin, III, C'76
  • Dr. Frank Merolla, C'63
  • Ms. Mary Molinaro, C'74
  • Mr. D.J. Monagle, III, C'84
  • Dr. Daniel G. Muldoon, C'89
  • Dr. Edward A. Palank, C'67
  • Mr. Russell Potee, III, C'04
  • Mr. J. Anthony Rose, C'74
  • Dr. John S. Salaki, C'67
  • Ms. Robin Shine, C'78
  • Dr. Mark Sobus, C'89
  • Dr. Sarah McGinley Turner, C'99
  • Capt. Christopher W. Zukowski, C'76

Faculty Activities 2021-22

Scholarly Publications

Minxuan He

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

Angy Kallarackal

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

Patricia Kreke

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.

Sarah Krueger

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.

Patrick Lombardi

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.

Eric G. Sakowski

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.

Scholarly Presentations

Rachel Hartnett

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.

Minxuan He

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.

Brian Heinold

Heinold, Brian: "Some Original Estimation/Fermi Problems," MAA MD-DC-VA Section Meeting, Montgomery College, April 2022.

Patricia Kreke

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.

Sarah Krueger

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.

Patrick Lombardi

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)

Eric G. Sakowski

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)

Kari Taylor-Burt

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.

Professional Activities

Rachel Hartnett

  • Hartnett, R.N. March 2022. Reviewed manuscript for IAS Proceedings.
  • Hartnett, R.N. September 2021. Reviewed manuscript for Communications Biology.
  • Hartnett, R.N. Facilitated quantitative skills and science identity (QSSI) Faculty working group. doi:10.25334/XJP3-J959.

Minxuan He

  • Reviewer, Developmental Psychology
  • Reviewer, 2022 Conference, International Congress of Infant Studies

Jonelle Hook

  • Reviewer for Springer, 2022.
  • Referee for Journal of Graph Theory, 2022.
  • AMS Department Chair Workshop, April 2022.
  • AMS Committee on Education Forum on Evolving Curriculum in High School and Early Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Education, May 2022.
  • The Grading Conference (Higher Ed STEM Focus) by College Bridge, June 2022.

Sarah Krueger

  • Chemistry Women’s Mentorship Network
  • American Chemical Society New Faculty Workshop, August 2022
  • The Inclusive STEM Teaching Project, Fall 2021
  • Illinois Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning: Course Design Workshop Series
  • Illinois Merit Program for Emerging Scholars Mentor

Ruth Lamprecht

  • October 22-23, 2021. Attended CCSC Eastern Conference in October 2021. Served as a judge for undergraduate student poster competition
  • March 2-5, 2022. Attended SIGSCE Technical Symposium. Attended HFOSS Education pre-symposium workshop. Served as a judge for the ACM Student Research Competition
  • May 24-25, 2022. Attended POSSE workshop
  • June 20, 2022. Attended The Grading Conference
  • June 21, 2022. Attended the GAP workshop

Kari Taylor-Burt

  • Member, Primarily Undergraduate Institutions Steering Committee for Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology (2021-2022)
  • Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology Virtual Meeting (SICB+, January-March 2022)
  • Panelist, Franklin & Marshall College Women in STEM Panel (October 2021)

Awards and Grants

Rachel Hartnett

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.

Sarah Krueger

R.C. Fuson Memorial Travel Award for National ACS Conference, Spring 2022

Illinois Women in Chemistry Inclusive Leadership Award, Fall 2021

Abigail Kula

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.

Patrick Lombardi

NIH R15 Administrative Supplement application “Determining the structural basis of polyubiquitin signaling in response to DNA alkylation damage” (February 2022) – $49,586

Eric Sakowski

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.