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Expertise

• Fathers and daughters
• Family dynamics
• Portrayal of fathers in media
• Adolescent psychology
• Divorce and stepfamilies
• Shared residential parenting
• Family counseling
• Fairytales and fatherhood myths
• Restoring relationships

Teaching

• Fathers and daughters
• Adolescent psychology
• Children of divorce
• Educational psychology

Education

• BS, University of Tennessee

Selected Publications

• Father-Daughter Relationships: Contemporary Research & Issues (Routledge, 2012)
• Between Fathers and Daughters: Enriching and Rebuilding Your Adult Relationship (Turner Publishing, 2008)
• Embracing Your Father: Creating the Relationship You Want with Your Dad (McGraw Hill, 2004)
• Adolescence: A Contemporary View (Harcourt Brace, three editions 1990-1996)
• How to Motivate Adolescents: Handbook for Parents, Counselors & Parents (Prentice Hall, 1978)

Media

• Website
• Between Fathers and Daughters: Enriching and Rebuilding Your Adult Relationship

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Expertise

• Latin American politics
• Political recruitment and candidate selection
• U.S. Immigration

Teaching

• Government and Politics of Latin America
• International Political Economy
• Interamerican Relations
• Democratic Institutional Design

Education

• BA., Bradley University
• MA., Georgetown University
• PhD., Georgetown University

Selected Publications

• Getting Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know (Dulles, VA:  Potomac Books, 2009) co-edited with David Coates.
• Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America, edited volume, with Scott Morgenstern.  (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008), 440 pages.
• “Endogenizing Legislative Candidate Selection Procedures in Nascent Democracies: Evidence from Spain and Chile,” Democratization, 18:3 (2011):  797-822, with Bonnie Field.
• “Did Success Spoil the Concertación?” Americas Quarterly, 4:2 (Spring 2010): 28-32.
• “Elite-Mass Congruence, Partidocracia and the Quality of Chilean Democracy,” Journal of Politics in Latin America, 1:3 (2009): 3-31.

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Expertise

• Post–secondary Teaching Methods
• Graduate Professional Development
• Cell Biology
• Biology of Disease
• Learning Sciences
• E-Textbooks

Teaching

• Introductory Biology
• Advanced Cell Biology
• Research Ethics and Prudent Practice
• Instructional Methods

Education

• B.S., University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Ph.D., Wake Forest University
• Research Fellowships: Texas Heart Institute; University of Virginia

Current Research

• Inquiry approaches to teaching science laboratory courses in large-enrollment courses
• Informal and analytics-based assessment of student learning outcomes

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• English Renaissance literature
• War in literature and film
• Shakespeare
• War and Militarism
• Cultural and individual Memory
• Mourning
• Comedy
• Nationalism

Teaching

• Shakespeare
• Material World: Culture and Clothing
• Exit Stage Left: Writing Death and Dying in Early Modern England
• What is a Soldier?

Education

• Ph.D., New York University
• M.A., New York University
• M.A., King’s College London (U.K.)
• B.A., Columbia University

Selected Publications

• “‘Certain condolements, certain vails’: Staging Rusty Armor in Shakespeare’s Pericles,” Early Theatre, vol. 11.2, December 2008
• “‘Talking’ and Reading Shakespeare: King Henry VIII and the Performance of Self in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park,” The Wordsworth Circle, vol. 39.1-2, Winter/Spring 2008
• Objects of War: Military Dress, Memory, and the Making of the Early Modern English Subject Book project, New York University

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Expertise

• Investigative journalism
• Narrative nonfiction
• Multimedia storytelling
• Piedmont Triad, N.C. area
• Criminal justice
• Darryl Hunt
• Yadkin River
• Public engagement

Teaching

• Journalism
• Writing

Education

• M.S., Journalism School at Columbia University
• B.A., University of Chicago

Selected Publications

• “The Women of Reynolda” Our State. March 2011. 98-112.
• “Why Didn’t They Stop Him?” O, The Oprah Magazine. August 2009.
• “Murder, Race, Justice: The State V. Darryl Hunt” Winston-Salem Journal. 2003.

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Expertise

• Biochemistry
• Molecular Chemistry
• Protein Structures
• RNA-protein interactions
• Protein biosynthesis
• Women in Science and STEM

Current Research

• Molecular dissection of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase structure and function
• Nucleic acid structure and function
• Computational modeling of protein dynamics

Teaching

• Biochemistry: Macromolecules and Metabolism
• Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make Scientific History
• Window on Women’s and Gender Studies
• Movement and the Molecular
• Introductory Chemistry Lab
• Biochemistry of Nucleic Acids

Education

• B.S., University of Delaware
• PhD, University of Pennsylvania
• Postdoctoral Research, MIT and The Scripps Research Institute

Selected Publications

• Jones TE, Alexander RW, Pan T. (2011) Misacylation of specific nonmethionyl tRNAs by a bacterial methionyl-tRNA synthetase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108: 6933-6938.
• Casina, V.C., Lobashevsky, A.A., McKinney, W.E., Brown, C.L., and Alexander, R.W. (2011) Role for a conserved structural motif in assembly of a class I aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase active site. Biochemistry 50: 763-769.
• Alexander, RW, Eargle, J, and Luthey-Schulten, Z (2010) Experimental and computational determination of tRNA dynamics. FEBS Letters 584: 376-386.
• Banerjee, P, Warf, M.B., and Alexander, R.W. (2009) Effect of a domain-spanning disulfide on aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase activity. Biochemistry 48: 10113-10119.
• Jones, T.E., Brown, C.L, Geslain, R., Alexander, R.W. and Ribas de Pouplana, L. (2008) An operational RNA code for faithful assignment of ATG triplets to methionine. Molecular Cell 29: 401-407.
• Budiman, M.E., Knaggs, M.H., Fetrow, J.S., and Alexander, R.W. (2007) Using molecular dynamics to map interaction networks in an aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 68: 670-689.

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Expertise

• Computational biophysics
• Molecular dynamics simulations
• GPU-based programming
• Protein and RNA folding
• Biomolecular assembly
• Molecular machines

Current Research

• Protein folding kinetics
• RNA folding mechanisms
• Protein-RNA machines: ribosome assembly
• Protein-nanoparticle interactions
• GPU-based MD simulations

Teaching

• Biophysics
• Data structures
• GPU programming

Education

• PhD, University of California, San Diego
• BS, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Selected Publications

• “Assembly mechanisms of RNA pseudoknots are determined by the stabilities of the constituent secondary structures,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Oct. 2009.
• “Molecular Mechanism for the Entropic Stabilization of Proteins by TMAO,” Journal of Physical Chemistry, October 2011.
• “Folding of Human Telomerase RNA Pseudoknot using ion-jump and temperature quench simulations,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2011.
• “Fibrinogen unfolding mechanisms are not too much of a stretch,” Structure, November 2011.

Link

• Lab website

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Expertise

• Cyber security
• Computer networks
• Computer configurations
• Bio-inspiration and biomimicry
• Moving target defense
• Multimedia systems
• Simulation
• Programming languages

Current Research

• Deploying “digital ants” on the power grid
• Genetically inspired computer configurations to fight cyber threats
• Determining network usage and intent based on interaction patterns
• Quality of Service (QoS) management and related security issues
• Dynamic resource allocation
• Peer-to-peer systems
• Failure prediction and management
• Network pricing and auctions

Teaching

• Computer Security (including an annual “hack event” during which students attack and defend computer systems from each other)
• Internet Protocols

Education

• B.S., M.S., Ph.D., N.C. State University

Selected Publications

• Michael B. Crouse and Errin W. Fulp. A Moving Target Environment for Computer Configurations Using Genetic Algorithms. (2011). In Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Configuration Analytics and Automation (SafeConfig 2011).
• Jereme N. Haack, Glenn A. Fink, Wendy M. Maiden, David McKinnon, and Errin W. Fulp. (2011). Ant-Based Cyber Defense. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Technology New Generations.
• Turkett, Jr. W., Fulp, E., Lever, C., and Allan, E. (2011). Graph mining of motif profiles for computer network activity inference. Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs.
• Robin W. Featherstun and Errin W. Fulp. (2010). Using Syslog Message Sequences for Predicting Disk Failures. In Proceedings of the USENIX Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) Conference, 2010
• Allan, Jr., E., Turkett, Jr. W., and Fulp, E. (2009). Using network motifs to identify application protocols. Proceedings of the 2009 Global Communications Conference.

Patents

• “Method, systems, and computer program products for implementing function-parallel network firewall,” Errin W. Fulp and Ryan J. Farley. U.S. Patent No. 8,037,517 October 2011
• “Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Network Firewall Policy Optimization,” Errin W. Fulp and Stephen J. Tarsa. U.S. Patent No. 8,042,167 October 2011
• “Computer Network with Microeconomic Flow Control,” Errin W. Fulp, Maximilian Ott, Daniel Reininger, Patent No. 6,055,571 April 25, 2000

Company

• GreatWall Systems, Winston-Salem, N.C. – A Wake Forest University spin-off company based on the research of Fulp’s research group

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Expertise

• Exercise and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Factors that control respiration during exercise
• Effects of exercise on individuals with respiratory diseases
• Delivering exercise interventions to patients with acute respiratory failure

Current Research

• The effects of dietary nitrates (beet juice) on exercise performance in patients with COPD
• How resistance exercise interventions affect hospital length of stay and physical function in acute respiratory failure patients

Teaching

• Data Analysis and Interpretation
• Human Physiology

Education

• B.A., Jacksonville State University
• M.A., Southeastern Louisiana University
• Ph.D., Texas A&M University
• Post-doctoral research fellowship, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Selected Publications

• “A lifestyle activity intervention in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,” Respiratory Medicine, June 2010
• “The relationship between exercise tolerance and other outcomes in COPD,” COPD, September 2007
• “Use of peak oxygen consumption in predicting physical function and quality of life in COPD patients,” Chest, June 2006

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Expertise

• Self-control
• Willpower
• Goal setting
• Plan making

Research interests

• Self-control
• Willpower
• Goal setting
• Plan making
• Consciousness

Teaching

• Social Psychology

Education

• Post-doc, Tufts University
• PhD, Florida State University
• MS, Florida State University
• BA, University of California, Santa Barbara

Selected Publications

• Masicampo, E. J. & Baumeister, R. F. (2011). Consider it done!: Plan making can eliminate the cognitive effects of unfulfilled goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
• Masicampo, E. J. & Ramumeister, R. F. (2011). Unfulfilled goals interfere with tasks that require executive functions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 300-311.
• Masicampo, E.J. & Baumeister, R. F. (2008). Toward a physiology of dual-process reasoning and judgment: Lemonade, willpower, and expensive rule-based analysis. Psychological Science, 19, 255-260.