Project Leadership/Staff

Principal Investigator

Krista Brumley | PhD

Associate Professor of Sociology

Co-Principal Investigators

Boris Baltes | PhD

Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Associate Vice President of Academic Personnel, and Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Stine Eckert | PhD

Associate Professor of Communication

Tamara Hendrickson | PhD

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Sara Kacin | PhD

Assistant Provost for Faculty Development and Faculty Success, Director of the Office for Teaching and Learning

Project Staff

Nicole Gerring | PhD

NSF ADVANCE WSU GEARS Project Coordinator

Project Student Support

Salam Aboulhassan | PhD Candidate

NSF ADVANCE WSU GEARS Student Assistant

Sociology

 

Kiran Gafa
Kiran Gafa | PhD student

NSF ADVANCE WSU GEARS Student Assistant

Psychology

 

Keena Shante Neal | PhD Candidate

NSF ADVANCE WSU GEARS Student Assistant

Communication

 

Past Team Members

Kathryn Wrench | MBA

NSF ADVANCE WSU GEARS Former Project Director

Former Associate Director for Research, College of Liberal Arts and Science

Past Co-Principal Investigators

Lars Johnson | PhD

External Consultant, WSU-GEARS

Assistant professor in the Department of Management

University of Texas at Arlington 

Shirley Papuga | PhD

Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Geology

Ece Yaprak | PhD

Division Chair and Professor, Engineering Technology

Past Student Support

Fatima Albrehi | PhD Candidate

former NSF ADVANCE WSU GEARS Student Assistant

Communication

 

Erin Baker | PhD

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Minot State University

former NSF ADVANCE WSU GEARS Student Assistant

Tyleen Lopez | PhD Candidate

former NSF ADVANCE WSU GEARS Student Assistant

Psychology