Project Title: “Optimizing Deep Learning Tool for Segmentation of Hyperspectral FTIR Imaging Data and Developing a Clustering Tool for FTIR Data using Machine Learning Techniques” (Student: Josh Huskisson)
NAME:Zahrasadat Alavi
DEPARTMENT: Electrical and Computer Engineering
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 5 years
FIELD OF STUDY: Machine Learning, Image Processing, Advanced Control Systems
PAST RESEARCH: Studying tomographic reconstruction of synchrotron-based and thermal-based FTIR hyperspectral imaging data of polymers and developing Machine Learning algorithms for data analysis.
Project Title: “A Comparison of Two Stable Isotope Sampling Methods of Dentinal Collagen” (Student: Erin Boyle)
NAME: Eric Bartelink
DEPARTMENT: Anthropology
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 16 ½ years
FIELD OF STUDY: Biological Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, and Stable Isotope Analysis
PAST RESEARCH: Forensic applications of stable isotope analysis for predicting region of origin of unidentified human remains; paleodietary reconstruction in the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Valley of California; skeletal evidence of nutritional stress in prehistory; prehistoric violence; study of marginalized populations in 19th century California; use of portable x-ray fluorescence to resolve commingled remains cases.
Project Title: “Social isolation impacts depression, anxiety, and drug vulnerability in adolescent mice” (Student: Gelsey Aldana) & "Binge-eating alters anxiety- and depression-like behaviors in adolescent female mice" (Student: Parnaz Rezaie Boroon)
NAME: Shawn Bates
DEPARTMENT: Psychology
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 2 years
FIELD OF STUDY: Behavioral Neuroscience
PAST RESEARCH: How stress affects the brain.
Project Title: “Investigating the co-localization of histones and mitochondria in Arabidopsis thaliana” (Student: Sophia Thao)
NAME: Kristopher Blee
DEPARTMENT: Biology
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 21 years
FIELD OF STUDY: Plant cell biology
PAST RESEARCH: Plant defense and cell wall development
Project Title: “Anthropogenic effects on foliar fungal endophyte communities” (Student: Nayellie Barragan-Mejia)
NAME: Gerald Manuel Cobián
DEPARTMENT: Biological Sciences
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 2 years
FIELD OF STUDY: I am a microbial ecologist interested in plant-fungal interactions
PAST RESEARCH: My past research has mainly focused on foliar fungal endophytes (fungi that live inside the leaves of plants) and the biogeography of their interactions in an attempt to describe how changing environments influence plant-fungal interactions and explain the assembly processes of fungal communities.
Project Title: “Heavy Metal Concentration in Non-and Livestock Mortality Compost" (Student: Dana Brady Yount)
NAME: Kasey L. DeAtley
DEPARTMENT: Agriculture
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 9.5 years
FIELD OF STUDY: Animal and Range Science
PAST RESEARCH: I have researched livestock mortality composting, the utility of supplementing brewers grains to cattle, and increasing the capacity of rangeland research and education in collaboration with multiple institutions.
Project Title: “Future Temporal Perspective and Acculturation as predictors of Eating Behavior, Exercise, and Body Image among Latinx Undergraduates” (student: Maria Zepeda)
NAME: Andrés García-Penagos, PhD
DEPARTMENT: Psychology
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 1 year
FIELD OF STUDY: Experimental psychology, experimental analysis of human behavior
PAST RESEARCH: I have broad interests in the experimental analysis of human behavior, including particularly the issues of behavioral rigidity and behavioral flexibility, decision-making, choice, and symbolic behavior, particularly in social situations, both in the lab and in naturalistic settings. I also have an interest in social cognition and social coordination and action. Finally, I have an interest in the psychology of food and eating. In addition to these experimental areas, I am very fond of conceptual/philosophical work. I have supervised Research into the influence of temporal perspective and acculturation as predictors of eating behaviors, exercising, and bodily image among LatinX undergraduate students.
Project Title: “Uruguay as a Destination for Migration” (Student: Victoria Villasenor)
NAME: Claudia Sofía Garriga-López
DEPARTMENT: Multicultural and Gender Studies
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: This is the start of my fifth year at CSU Chico. I joined in the Fall of 2018
FIELD OF STUDY: Queer and Trans Latinx Studies
PAST RESEARCH: Transfeminist Activism in Ecuador and Puerto Rico
Project Title: "Investigating the use of Manganese-oxidizing bacteria in the degradation of plastic and lignin" (Student: Pagna Khov) & “Regulation of Manganese Oxidation in Pseudomonas putida GB-1 by a Two-component Regulatory Pathway ” (student: John Vang)
NAME: Kati Geszvain
DEPARTMENT: Biological Sciences
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 2 years
FIELD OF STUDY: Bacterial genetics, bacterial physiology, environmental microbiology
PAST RESEARCH: My work focuses on bacteria that convert reduced, soluble manganese to insoluble Mn minerals. This microbial activity affects the global geochemical cycling of carbon and metals and can be used for bioremediation applications. I use genetic tools to understand how and why bacteria oxidize manganese.
Project Title: “Evidence that idiopathic scoliosis is a diagnosis that encompasses multiple pathologies” (Student: Paola Amezcua) & "The cause of proprioception defects in Cbk gene knock-out fish lineage" (Student: Ashley Brown) "Transcriptional activity of the OTX2 gene during early pediatric growth" (Student: Stephanie Durate-Amezcua)
NAME: Kristen Gorman
DEPARTMENT: Biological Sciences
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: At Chico State since 2017
FIELD OF STUDY: Multifactorial genetic traits
PAST RESEARCH:Basic biological mechanisms associated with cancer, idiopathic scoliosis
Project Title: “Factors Associated with Farmers’ market consumers’ perceptions” (Student: Jovita Avila) & “Qualitative data analysis for USFQ Ecuador and CSU Chico, identifying strategies for increasing campus-level cultural competency through community-engaged Collaborative Online International” (Student: Sally Mead)
NAME: Keiko Goto
DEPARTMENT: Nutrition and Food Science
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: Since 2006
FIELD OF STUDY: Food Culture, International Nutrition, Food behavior, Mindful eating
PAST RESEARCH: Here is the link to my publication list:https://www.csuchico.edu/nfsc/about/people/faculty/keiko-goto.shtml
Project Title: “The Behavioral Ecology of Food Insecurity in Young Adults” (Student: Emily Mansilla)
NAME: Patrick Johnson
DEPARTMENT: Psychology
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 7 Years (Fall 2015)
FIELD OF STUDY: Behavioral Economics
PAST RESEARCH: My students and I conduct research on the various behavioral processes underlying impulsivity and risk-taking. Over the years, we’ve applied these concepts to help us better understand problematic behaviors such as distracted driving, unprotected sex, smartphone overuse, fast food consumption, and substance abuse. Visit our lab website to learn more about our work: https://psjohnson.yourweb.csuchico.edu/.
Project Title: “Monitoring Presence of Chytridiomycosis in Amphibians by Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction” (Student: Maredith Cassandra Berdeja)
NAME: David Keller
DEPARTMENT: Biology
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 14 years
FIELD OF STUDY: Genetics
PAST RESEARCH: Genetics of type 2 diabetes
Project Title: “Protest & Politics, Rural Responses ” (Student: Tatiana Ybarra)
NAME: Amy Magnus
DEPARTMENT: Political Science and Criminal Justice
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: I started working at Chico State in the Fall of 2020
FIELD OF STUDY: I am an interdisciplinary scholar whose work fits well at the intersection of political science, criminology/criminal justice, justice studies, and sociology. Generally, I study the causes, lived experiences, and mechanisms that perpetuate social inequality in American society, coupled with grassroots activist responses to inequality and vulnerability. As an extension of this focus, my work examines philosophies of justice and activism, access to justice, the politics of social inequality and trajectories toward equity, and the relationship between law, society, and culture.
PAST RESEARCH: Throughout the last several years, my work has focused on social inequality, resource accessibility, grassroots activism, and social justice in rural communities. I look forward to continuing this scholarship throughout the North State. Most recently, I started a new project examining Chico State students' experiences at the intersection of social inequality and the legal/criminal justice systems and how these experiences have shaped students' educational experiences and outcomes
Project Title: “De Eso No Se Habla: How Latinx Communities Communicate About Sex (Education)” (Student: Samantha Di Lelio-Boice)
NAME: Jennifer Malkowski
DEPARTMENT: Communication Arts & Sciences
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 7+ years
FIELD OF STUDY: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
PAST RESEARCH: Dr. Malkowski’s research lies at the intersections of persuasive communication, medical professionalism, and public health controversy. Her work has appeared in Health Communication, Journal of Medical Humanities, The Review of Communication, and Journal of International & Intercultural Communication, in addition to other edited collections. She is co-editor of a special issue of Rhetoric of Health & Medicine that inaugurates a research trajectory for scholars invested in the public nature of health as well as a forthcoming collection entitled Covid and...How To Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic (Michigan State University Press) that explores how Covid amplified and conjoined pre-existing structural and social inequities in the United States.
Project Title: “The Effects of Peer Mentorship on the Outcomes of SLP Graduate Students” (Student: Ash Martinez-Aguilar)
NAME: Kenyan L Martin
DEPARTMENT: Communication Arts & Sciences
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 5 years
FIELD OF STUDY: Speech-Language Pathology
PAST RESEARCH: Communication enhancement approaches for patients with traumatic brain injury and stroke; teaching and learning methods in communication sciences and disorders
Project Title: “Analysis of Instrument's Ability to Measure Small Ground Level Pressure Fluctuations” (Student: Efrain Cobian)
NAME: Shane Mayor
DEPARTMENT: Earth and Environmental Sciences
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 14 years (since 2008)
FIELD OF STUDY: Atmospheric Science
PAST RESEARCH: Lidar, wind, turbulence
Project Title: “Understanding Barriers to Usage of Basic Needs Programs at Chico State” (Student: Dania Mabiel Moreno Ruiz)
NAME: Gabby Medina Falzone a.k.a. Dr. Gee
DEPARTMENT: Multicultural and Gender Studies
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: Starting my 2nd year
FIELD OF STUDY: Critical Youth Studies, Critical Criminology, Critical Psychology
PAST RESEARCH: My previous work examined the criminalization, dehumanization, and disregard of Black and Latinx adolescents in schools, communities, and juvenile detention and the social and psychological consequences of that treatment.
Project Title: “Do students learn best when using hands-on artifacts?” (Student: Stephen Torres)
NAME: Rachel Teasdale
DEPARTMENT: Earth & Environmental Sciences
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: Since 2004
FIELD OF STUDY: Earth Sciences- Volcanology and Geoscience Education Research
PAST RESEARCH:My research in volcanology involves investigating how lava flows cool and crystallize as they flow across the Earth’s surface. My research also includes projects in northern California, including in the Lassen region and in learning about ancient Mt. Yana. My geoscience education research focuses on ways students learn best in the sciences, including active learning and inquiry-based lab activities.
Project Title: “The Politics of the Streets; Irish-Americans and the New York 1863 Draft Riots” (Student: Riley Rosenberg)
NAME: Robert Tinkler
DEPARTMENT: History
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 21 years
FIELD OF STUDY: 19th-century U.S. history
PAST RESEARCH: Research has focused on antebellum and Civil War-era politics
Project Title: “Intergenerational Conflict in the Hmong Community” (Student: Pa Vang)
NAME: Martin van den Berg
DEPARTMENT: Psychology
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 15 years
FIELD OF STUDY: Cognitive Psychology
PAST RESEARCH:
I am interested in cognitive psychology, the scientific study of mental processes. Most of my Research has been on visual perception, specifically the processes by which the visual system takes in sensory information and organizes it into whole objects that can be recognized. I also have an interest in attention and working memory. By doing research in cognitive psychology, I have come to appreciate the ability to answer various questions by developing an appropriate methodology. I have recently worked with students on various topics, exploring the benefits of different research methods.
Project Title: "How are Children of Mexican Immigrants Building Resiliency in Pursuit of a Four-Year College Degree?" (Students: Janette Rodriguez, Karina Diaz Letty Mejia, & Victor Lopez)
NAME: Judy Vang, Ph.D. MSW
DEPARTMENT: Social Work
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: Since 2013
FIELD OF STUDY: Social Work
PAST RESEARCH: Suicide among Hmong Youth, Hmong parents' understanding of the juvenile justice system, HIV, social work education.
Project Title: “Women’s Critiques of ‘The Cult of Domesticity in Gilded-Age California.” (Student: Renee Brown)
NAME: Alisa Wade
DEPARTMENT: History
NUMBER OF YEARS AT CHICO STATE: 3 years
FIELD OF STUDY: Early American History
PAST RESEARCH: My research focuses on the intersections of gender history and capitalism in the eighteenth century. Previous projects have analyzed the economic experiences of widows, patterns of women’s investing, and the gendered implications of class consolidation in the revolutionary era and early republic.
