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At Murray State University you’ll find professors who are dedicated to your success. The graduate faculty are knowledgeable researchers, talented teachers, and active in their disciplines. These dedicated individuals consider it their mission to help you accomplish your academic goals. The MSU faculty will ask for your best, challenge you, and push you toward excellence. Learning from the best is important to students who want to compete in the marketplace and life. Meet several of our outstanding scholar/graduate faculty:
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Dr. Atieh conducts research related to assessing harmful effects from hazardous material such as mercury/cadmium in the food chain, and the effects of pesticides residues from spraying or treating pets with topical solutions like Frontline. Currently he is investigating the impact on driver safety of distractions such as using cell phones, writing grocery shopping lists, putting on make-up, etc. while driving.
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Dr. Haluk Cetin is taking field spectra using a field spectroradiometer (350-2500 nanometer range) and a Spectralon (white reference). The field spectra were used to calibrate and process airborne and spaceborne remotely sensed data for environmental mapping applications. |
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Dr. Frame's research focus area is the delivery of nutrition services in healthcare institutions. Recent projects have focused on the relationship between calcium intake and BMI, food quality measures, and improving patient satisfaction outcomes. Dr. Frame's work is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture. He is the author of two university texts on clinical nutrition published in 2004 and 2005. |
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Dr. Jacqueline Hansen writes about her work, “My research topic this year is differentiating instruction (DI). This is an instructional strategy whereby teachers use varied instructional strategies and give students choices in an effort to address individual learning styles and academic needs.”
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Dr. Martin Jacobs’ current research agenda includes study of curriculum development, curriculum governance, change theory, and teacher leadership.
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Students working in Dr. Loganathan’s laboratory are exposed to a broad range of research experience and analytical techniques including trace level (parts per billion-parts per trillion) analysis of organic and organometallic compounds in environmental and biological samples. Professor Loganathan’s research interests are focused on two major areas: assessment of toxic organic/organometallic pollutants in lake ecosystems, and development of analytic methods for emerging new environmental pullutants.
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Dr. Maeve McCarthy’s main interest is inverse spectral problems. Writes Dr. McCarthy, “I use vibrational information to determine models of vibrating systems, including a wide variety of drums.”
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Dr. Bill Mulligan's research on the migration of copper miners from Ireland to the Michigan Copper Country in the nineteenth century, and their lives in the United States, is providing new insights into how we understand Irish migration to the United States and the formation of ethnic identity and ethnic communities. The experience of these skilled miners and their families who went to the western end of Lake Superior is dramatically different from that of their less skilled countrymen and women who remained in east coast cities.
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Dr. Payne’s research of language development as it relates to development in young children who stutter is put into practice at the University’s Speech and Hearing Center in the Speech Language Pathology Graduate program. Her most recent publication is a chapter in a medical school textbook on stuttering for future pediatricians.
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Dr. Daniel Wann’s research on the psychology of sport fans has gained international attention and he has been hired as a consultant to work with numerous sport organizations, including the NCAA, PGA, and Taylor Made Sports. His work has been featured on ESPN, CNN, and in Sports Illustrated. |
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Dr. David White is Commonwealth Endowed Chair for Ecosystem Studies and Director of the Hancock Biological Station
on Kentucky Lake. He is Murray States first Distinguished Researcher and is the Editor
of the Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. He serves on a number of national committees including the Board
of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). His primary research area is aquatic ecology. Specific
research interests include the ecology of aquatic benthic invertebrates, Coleoptera, and zooplankton. He also is
interested in long-term climate change as understood through lake sensors and long-term monitoring programs.
He has published more than 120 papers, of which about half are with graduate students, and has served on more than
70 graduate committees. He has research support for select graduate students through the Commonwealth endowment.
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Dr. Martin Milkman research interests are labor economics and the economics of education. His recent research
has focused on the economics of economic education and program evaluation.
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