School of Science & Health Faculty
Gregory Keller
Professor of Biology
Dean, School of Science and Health
Dr. Keller joined Gordon College in 2007 after teaching for five years at Eastern New Mexico University, where he was an Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology.
Essays written by Keller for a general audience include: "Denizens of the Autumn Air" and "A Sense of Shared (Avian) Presence." ... more ➔
Russ Tuck
Professor of Computer Science
Chair, Department of Mathematical, Computer, and Data Sciences
Dr. Russell Tuck, an award-winning software engineering manager, brings extensive experience to his role as professor of computer science. Dr. Tuck led the productionization and launch of Gmail and built and managed Gmail’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) group. During his 11 years at Google, he also led teams developing some of the infrastructure systems for Google’s vast web services and helped facilitate the company ... more ➔
Liza Abraham
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Dr. Liza Abraham is an educator and researcher specializing in Organic Chemistry. She holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and has post-doctoral research experience at the University of Toronto, Canada, the University of Southern Mississippi, USA, and the University of Sherbrook, Canada. She has worked in industries as a medicinal chemist at Dalton Pharma Services in Toronto, Canada, and as a research chemist at ... more ➔
Susan Bobb
Professor of Psychology
Dr. Bobb joined the Gordon faculty in the fall of 2015, coming from Northwestern University where she had been a Research Associate working on the neural correlates of bilingual language processing and cognitive control. Dr. Bobb’s research program is broadly developmental, using both behavioral methods (e.g., eye-tracking; response times) and neuroscience methods (e.g., EEG) to investigate the process of learning a first or second language ... more ➔
Dorothy Boorse
Professor of Biology
Dr. Boorse joined Gordon College in 1999 and has worked to bring a greater understanding of the complex interactions among wildlife and the environment to the Gordon Community and the wider world. Her primary research interests are in aquatic community ecology and invasive species. Dorothy also spends a great deal of time studying the integration of faith and science, particularly in the realm of environmental ethics. In the past several years ... more ➔
Rachelle Chiang, Dr.PH., M.P.H.
Course Instructor
Dr. Rachelle Johnsson Chiang joined Gordon College in 2022 with over twenty years of experience in public health at the national, state, and community levels. She brings a wealth of expertise in program evaluation, health policy, chronic disease prevention, social determinants of health, school health, and substance abuse and mental health. Her experience includes serving as Director of a national school health initiative at the National ... more ➔
Sean Clark
Professor of Kinesiology
Director, Health Professions
Dr. Clark joined the kinesiology faculty at Gordon College in 2000 and serves as the department chair. Dr. Clark teaches courses that focus on the neurophysiological and mechanical basis of human movement. He also serves as the Director for the Gordon College Center for Balance Mobility and Wellness.
Dr. Clark’s research interests focus broadly on the coordination and multisensory control of posture and orientation. His ... more ➔
Karl-Dieter Crisman
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Karl-Dieter Crisman's main research interests lie in applications of mathematics to analysis of election procedures. Other interests include connections with music, the abstract world of invariants on hyperplane arrangements, and the 17th century scientist and priest Marin Mersenne. He is passionate about open ... more ➔
Ryan Daley
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Before joining the Psychology Department at Gordon College in 2022, Professor Daley completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College. His research focuses on how younger and older adults remember social and emotional information, and how this memory content relates to decision-making and judgments. One of the primary goals of this work is to determine how cognitive and motivational changes that occur across ... more ➔
Melanie Gwynn, Ph.D., M.P.H./M.H.A.
Course Developer, Course Instructor
Dr. Gwynn joined Gordon College in 2023 with over a decade of experience as a health services researcher. She has served as faculty at other universities and has public health experience at the national, state, and academic levels. Dr. Gwynn’s research interests include HIV/AIDS/STIs, healthcare service utilization, healthcare guideline/policy development and evaluation, and project management in public health. She has published and presented ... more ➔
Casey Hughes, M.A., MCHES
Course Developer, Course Instructor
Casey Hughes, MA MCHES joined Gordon College in 2023 bringing over 15 years of experience designing and evaluating evidence-based behavioral interventions for the prevention and management of chronic disease. Casey has faithfully served at the intersection of behavioral medicine, public health, and well-being science across healthcare and health technology sectors. She has spearheaded the creation of numerous health apps, disease management protocols, ... more ➔
Peter Iltis
Professor of Kinesiology
Peter Iltis joined the faculty of Gordon College in 1983 and holds a variety of scholarly interests both within the discipline of kinesiology and in music. His research projects have included such diverse interests as reliability and validity in the measurement of bioenergetics, movement disorders such as focal task specific dystonia (in musicians), body composition assessment techniques, the use of computer-assisted visual feedback in French ... more ➔
Irvin J. Levy
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Computer Science
Irv joined the Department of Chemistry at Gordon College in 1985. His interests in chemistry are primarily related to the development of educational resources for green chemistry, chemistry that is inherently safer for human health and the environment. Current projects involve the creation of green organic chemistry laboratory experiments, the introduction of toxicology into the chemistry curriculum, and community outreach via green chemistry. ... more ➔
Mina Lim
Assistant Professor of Physics
I am originally from South Korea. After graduating Texas A&M University with my B.S in Chemical Engineering, I worked at Samsung Electronics in South Korea as a semiconductor engineer for 6 years. I came back to the states and received my Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2020.
My research interest includes atomistic simulations of the structure and the properties of the high ... more ➔
Sam Mason
Instructor of Data Science
With a background in ecology and biostatistics, Professor Mason is most interested in using bespoke probabilistic models to inform animal conservation. His current research focuses on the Monarch butterfly, combining large spatial datasets with greenhouse experiments to understand how habitat loss and pesticide use are driving population declines. Professor Mason is an R enthusiast and loves introducing students to the fundamentals of programming, ... more ➔
Marshae McNeal, Ph.D., M.P.H. CHES
Course Developer, Part-time Instructor
Dr. McNeal worked in community mental health for 11 years serving as Prevention Coordinator for alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention related activities. In this position, she supervised the implementation of several grants, taught science-based curriculums, and actively served on several coalitions. Dr. McNeal’s passion for mental health and the effects it has on the community, especially the African American community, grew during ... more ➔
Moses New-Aaron, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Course Developer, Course Instructor
Dr. Moses New-Aaron joined Gordon College in 2023 with over ten years of experience in population health both in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. As a Clinical Laboratory Scientist with the Ondo State Specialist Hospital and the Institute of Human Virology of Nigeria, he gained firsthand experience working with HIV-infected mothers via the Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV program. During his master’s degree, he studied public ... more ➔
Daniel Norton
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Before coming to Gordon College in 2019, Professor Norton was a Visiting Assistant professor of psychology at Williams College, and previous to that he was a postdoctoral fellow at MGH, where he studied Alzhiemer's disease and practiced cognitive behavioral therapy in an outpatient clinic. As a scientist practitioner he does research on questions that are clinical in nature, and uses the scientific method in his clinical practice. In general, ... more ➔
Christine Palmer, Ed.D., M.P.H., MCHES
Course Developer, Course Instructor
Dr. Christine Palmer joined Gordon College in 2023 with experience in teaching, leadership, and healthcare policy and management. She has over a decade of experience in academia, teaching in and leading public health and healthcare management programs. In addition to teaching in both higher education and secondary education settings, Dr. Palmer has previously worked in health policy and healthcare management overseeing the education and outreach ... more ➔
Michael Ritter, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Public Health
Dr. Ritter joined Gordon College in 2022 with experience in management, research, and teaching. He co-founded and managed a non-profit organization that provides safe water through a social enterprise in rural Haiti. After scaling the program through partnerships with governmental, non-governmental, faith-based, and academic partners, he transitioned leadership of the organization to local staff. Dr. Ritter’s research has ... more ➔
LaReisha Robinson, Dr. P.H., M.P.H.
Course Developer, Course Instructor
Dr. LaReisha Robinson joined Gordon College in 2023 with experience in health policy, program management, health and human services, and grant writing. Her dissertation research focused on examining the relationship between medication adherence and socioeconomic status among adults with cardiovascular disease. Currently, Dr. Robinson is working with the Department of Health in Mississippi, where she is involved in program evaluation, health policy, ... more ➔
Jonathan Senning
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Dr. Senning combines an interest in applying mathematics to real-world problems with a love for computer technology and finding ways to use computers in a variety of applications. His current interests include high-performance computing, computational solutions to network queueing problems, and machine learning. He has been an active member of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences (ACMS) since joining in 1993.
Dissertation: High Performance Computing, Computer Applications of Mathematics
Kristen Siaw
Assistant Professor
Dr. Siaw received her B.S in Biochemistry from Biola University and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC Santa Barbara in 2013 where her research was focused on inorganic materials synthesis of ZnO thin films. She combines her love of materials science with her biochemistry and inorganic chemistry academic backgrounds to encourage interdisciplinary learning, and applies her diverse scientific training to the field of biomimetic synthesis. Aside from loving to nurture and encourage the passions of future scientists and engineers, she enjoys baking, painting and playing with her two sons.
Heather Sipsma, Ph.D.
Master of Public Health Program Director
Associate Professor of Public Health
Dr. Sipsma joined Gordon College in 2021 with experience in both academia and consulting. She oversees the MPH program and conducts research related to maternal and child health. Her dissertation focused on analyzing patterns of risk behaviors among adolescents, and her post-doctoral experiences focused on health systems strengthening, with a particular emphasis in global health. Her more recent research seeks to evaluate the implementation and ... more ➔
Craig Story
Professor of Biology
Health Professions Advisor (Premed Advisor)
My research interests have centered around immunology and molecular biology. In graduate school at Brandeis University, I cloned and studied the transporter protein, called FcRn, that carries IgG antibodies across the human placenta under Dr. Neil E. Simister.
Subsequent to my graduate work, new roles the antibody transporter have been discovered—it extends the serum ... more ➔
Yi Sun
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology
Dr. Sun joined Gordon College in 2021. Her research interests focus on preserving the health and independence of older adults by conducting translational and interdisciplinary research broadly related to the prevention of age-associated physical and cognitive disability. Her research projects involve the principles of exercise physiology, biological aging, gut microbiome, and pharmacology. Incorporating both human and pre-clinical rodent models, ... more ➔
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Oleksiy Svitelskiy
Professor of Physics
A condensed matter physicist by training, Dr. Svitelskiy's research includes the propagation of acoustic waves through ferroelectric materials, as well as optical interferometry using NEMS sensors for mass spectrometry. He has also studied the elastic constant of materials in high magnetic fields and low temperatures.
A native of Ukraine, Professor Svitelskiy speaks Ukrainian, Russian, and English. He enjoys fishing in ... more ➔
Michael Veatch
Professor of Mathematics
Dr. Veatch uses the methods of operations research, particularly probability models and optimization, in a variety of areas. He is currently studying humanitarian logistics and the effective delivery of aid. He is also interested in the control of queueing networks, with applications to supply chains and manufacturing systems, and approximate dynamic programming. Prior to coming to Gordon, he worked for six years in the industry ... more ➔
Gregory Walker, DPT
Lecturer in Kinesiology
Physical Therapist
Dr. Gregory Walker ’11 is a physical therapist and clinic manager for the Harmeling Physical Therapy location on Gordon College’s campus. He has been an adjunct faculty member of Gordon’s kinesiology department since 2017. He’s a Gordon graduate and former member of the Men’s Basketball team. His areas of expertise include sports rehabilitation and rehabilitation for the cervical spine.
Stella Zawedde-Muyanja, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Course Developer
Dr. Zawedde-Muyanja joined Gordon College in 2022 with expertise in implementation research to improve healthcare delivery in Uganda. She has more than twenty years of experience in the field of public health and healthcare delivery and has worked on various public health interventions for HIV, TB and Malaria. Recently, her work has primarily focused on improving delivery of TB care services in Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa. She currently works ... more ➔
Shelley Zhang
Professor of Computer Science
Dr. Zhang is enthusiastic about computer science education and eager to share the wonders of this ever-evolving discipline with students. She has extensive experience in teaching, mentoring, advising students, and also in curriculum development.
Her major research focus is on intelligent agent technologies and multi-agent systems, with potential application domains such as cooperative team missions, social networks, health ... more ➔
Ming Zheng
Professor of Biology
Dr. Yuanming Zheng joined Gordon College in 2002 with experiences in both academia and industry. His research focuses on plant biotechnology and crop breeding. He uses an immature pollen system he established to study the cellular and developmental events associated with somatic embryogenesis of plant cells. He has published numerous journal papers and book chapters on the subject. His more recent interests include the ethical, legal, social, ... more ➔
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