Kathleen Boggs, Educational, School & Counseling Psychology
Within a multicultural context, Kathleen Boggs teaches courses in theories and practices of clinical supervision, counseling methods and practices, practica in counseling psychology, and theories of career development for women. She works with the advanced doctoral students in Counseling Psychology and School Psychology to obtain their clinical-practice internships across the country and monitors their year-long training experiences. Her primary interests are in clinical training/teaching and supervision, career transitions of adults, developmental/clinical issues of college students, consultation, and campus mediation. She has been involved with national issues on psychology internship and postdoctoral training and is a licensed psychologist in Missouri and Utah. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in the Society of Counseling Psychology and in the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues.

Vicki Boyd-Kennedy, The Learning Center
Vicki Boyd-Kennedy is the TRiO Academic Advisor at the MU Learning Center and Academic Exploration and Advising Services. She advises first-year students and instructs FIG Pro-Seminar and First-Year Experience courses. The focus of her teaching is to help students learn the culture of college and to become successful students.

Nathan Boyer, The Department of Art
Nathan Boyer is an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Art. He earned his BFA at Tufts University and his MFA at the Yale School of Art. He has participated in the Skowhegan and U-Cross residency programs and received awards including the Gloucester Landscape Painting Fellowship from Yale and the Traveling Scholar Prize from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. For several years he has worked on parallel projects exploring serial narratives in painting and Web-based animation. He teaches graduate and undergraduate painting and drawing courses that engage cultural and critical theory as well as practical skills.

Philip Clart, Department of Religious Studies
Philip Clart is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies, where he serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies and teaches classes in East Asian religions. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1997. His research focuses on popular religion and religious change in Chinese societies past and present.

Patricia Friedrichsen, Learning, Teaching & Curriculum and Division of Biological Sciences
Patricia Friedrichsen is an Assistant Professor, jointly appointed in the Department of Learning, Teaching & Curriculum and the Division of Biological Sciences. She received her Ph.D. from Penn State in 2002. She teaches a course in introductory biology for non-science majors and science methods courses for prospective science teachers. She also teaches graduate methods courses in the SMAR2T program, an alternative certification program for science and mathematics teachers. She conducts research on secondary science teacher learning.

Candace Galen, Biological Sciences
Candace Galen is a professor in the Division of Biological Sciences and co-director of MU's Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology Program "Training Ecologist Doctors for the 21st Century". The NSF funded UMEB program aims to increase minority representation in environmental biology. She conducts research on the ecology, evolution and conservation of mutualisms--relationships between species in which both partners benefit. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an Associate Editor-in-Chief for the Ecological Society of America. Galen's research has been the topic of news features in Science magazine, Natural History Magazine, and Science News.

Glen Heggie, Nuclear Medicine Technology
Glen Heggie is the director of UMC's Nuclear Medicine Technology program. Dr. Heggie spent 27 years overseeing the clinical portion of the Nuclear Medicine Technology program in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where he also completed three degrees in post-secondary education and its administration (BEd, MEd, EdD). Earning his designation as a registered technologist from the CSRT (Canadian Society of Radiographic Technologists) in 1973 he also holds a Fellowship with the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists (CAMRT). Other than Nuclear Medicine Dr Heggie has worked in Anatomic Pathology, Medical Laboratory and Radiotherapy and has acted as a consultant for national professional associations in both Nuclear Medicine and Medical Sonography.

Brick Johnstone, Health Psychology
Brick Johnstone is a Professor, Chair of the MU Department of Health Psychology, and the director of the Spirituality and Health research project of the MU Center for Religion, the Professions, and the Public. He is a clinical neuropsychologist and the PI of a grant to train more rehabilitation and neuropsychologists to serve persons with chronic disabilities in rural, underserved areas of the state.

M. Harold Laughlin, Biomedical Sciences
Dr. Laughlin is a Curators' Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in physiology and biophysics at the University of Iowa in 1974. He teaches anatomy to medical students and undergraduate students and physiology to medical students. He does research on the cardiorespiratory effects of exercise and the importance of physical activity to vascular health. Using molecular biology, biochemistry, vascular cell biology, physiology, and anatomy, current experiments are focused on endothelial cell biology and determining the effects of physical activity on endothelial phenotype in health and vascular disease.

S. David Mitchell, School of Law
S. David Mitchell is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law. He earned his aw degree at the University of Pennsylvania and a M.A. in Sociology. He teaches courses on Torts, Criminal Justice Administration, and Law and Society. His scholarship interests focus on issues surrounding felon disenfranchisement, ex-offender reentry and the restoration of rights, and citizenship. Prior to joining the law school faculty, Professor Mitchell was a Scholar in Residence in the Sociology Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has taught history at the Collegiate School in New York City and served as the Director of Student Multicultural Services.

Eryca Neville, Department of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum
Eryca Neville is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum. She teaches Classroom Research, Authentic Assessment, Inquiry into Schools, Community and Society, and Elementary Social Studies Methods. Topics addressed in her classes include: multicultural education, the interplay of class, gender, and race in education, and creating curriculum that meets the needs of diverse learners.

Elizabeth Pickens, MU Women’s Center
Elizabeth Pickens is the MU Women’s Center Advisor where she works with students and programming. She is currently completed her MEd. in Counseling Psychology. Her research interests include feminist theories in Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, and grass roots activism. She currently teaches a Women’s & Gender Studies course examining race and U.S. experiences of girlhood.

Chris Pierret, Doctoral Candidate, Biological Sciences
Chris is a graduate student in the Biological Sciences working in the laboratory of Mark D. Kirk. He studies the process of mammalian adult neurogenesis using a novel culture system developed in the Kirk Lab. He employs mouse embryonic stem cells to grow cultures which may provide information both about the process of neurogenesis and possibly lead to new therapeutic approaches for neurodegenerative disease. Chris has included in his studies the development of a new course together with Pat Friedrichsen for intersession offering entitled Stem Cells and Society.

LuAnne Roth, English
LuAnne Roth is an Instructor in the English Department where she teaches courses in American folklore and film studies and serves as Associate Editor of the Center for eResearch. Roth’s research has primarily focused on foodways and material culture in America, her current study interrogating cinematic representations of the Thanksgiving meal through a postcolonial lens. Her courses focus in particular on how food and film are used to negotiate ethnicity, race, gender, and power.

Frank Schmidt, Biochemistry
Frank Schmidt is Professor of Biochemistry in the School of Medicine and the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. Schmidt's teaching interests are in the development of interactive, inquiry-based science education for Undergraduate, Graduate and Professional Students. He serves as Principal Investigator for the NSF-supported CUES (Connecting Undergraduates to the Enterprise of Science) project. His research is in nucleic acid biochemistry and in genomically-guided strategies for the identification of novel antimicrobial compounds. He is a member of Faculty Council and is Chair of the University of Missouri system Intercampus Faculty Council for 2006-2007. He received MU's Human Rights Achievement Award in 1995 and was named Honors College Professor of the Year in 2000.

Carol Snively, School of Social Work
Carol Snively is the MSW Program Director in the School of Social Work. She received her PhD in Social Work from the Ohio State University. Prior to academia, Carol worked for 15 years as a registered/ board certified art therapist and social worker with youth and their families in mental health and addiction treatment in hospital, residential, school based and community settings. She teaches courses on mental health and social justice issues such as SW8040 Narrative Approaches to Social Work Practice and SW7760 Foundations of Social Justice. Her research interests include youth development and community betterment and effective helping strategies for sexual minority youth.

Donna Strickland, English
Donna Strickland is an Assistant Professor of English, where she teaches undergraduate courses in writing and graduate courses in writing pedagogy and rhetorical theory. Her research works at the intersection of composition studies, rhetorical theory, and cultural studies, examining the ideological leanings and managerial imperatives of composition as a field of study.