Accounting
James Buckley, Professor of Accounting
Expertise: Financial accounting and auditing
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
David Rogers, Professor of Accounting, Department Head of Accounting and Information
Technology
Expertise: Cost accounting; managerial accounting; any accounting topic
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Geoffrey Gurka, Associate Professor of Accounting
Expertise: Accounting; individual income taxation
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
American Government
Scott Aker, Lecturer of Speech
Expertise: Speech and debate; state and local government
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Michael Gizzi, Associate Professor of Political Science
Expertise: Constitutional law and civil liberties; American presidency; American political thought; politics of cyberspace; media and politics
Media: Program presentation
Dr. John Redifer, Professor of Political Science
Expertise: Colorado government; environmental policy
Media: Program presentation
American Sign Language
Dr. Andrew Gordon, Associate Professor of Spanish
Expertise: American Sign Language; education of the deaf; careers in translations and interpreting
Media: Program presentation
Applied Technology - Transportation
Gary Looft, Instructor of Applied Technology -Transportation, WCCC
Tilman M. Bishop Campus
Expertise: Automotive technology; diesel technology; automotive and diesel engine machining; advanced automotive engine performance; electronic diesel engine controls; industrial safety
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Athletics
James Buchan, Head Coach, Soccer
Expertise: Soccer
Media: Program Presentation
Rusty Crick, Head Coach, Volleyball
Expertise: Volleyball
Media: Program Presentation
Chris Hanks, Head Coach, Baseball
Expertise: Baseball
Media: Program Presentation
Jim Heaps, Head Men's Basketball Coach
Expertise: Basketball
Media: Program Presentation
Dr. Gig Leadbetter, Professor of Human Performance and Wellness;
Head Coach, Cross Country
Expertise: Cross Country (See Health and Wellness for additional topics)
Media: Program Presentation
Kristin Mort, Head Coach, Softball
Expertise: Softball
Media: Program Presentation
Joe Ramunno, Head Coach, Football
Expertise: Football
Media: Program Presentation
Robert Ryan, Head Athletic Trainer
Expertise: First aid, sports injuries
Media: Program Presentation
Biology
Dr. Bruce Bauerle, Professor of Biology
Expertise: Plants; fisheries; ecology; survival; whales; adventures in Antarctica; the coral reefs; Alaska; the rain forests; Australia and New Zealand; cruise ships and ecology tours
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Steve Werman, Professor of Biology, Department Head of Biological Sciences
Expertise: Molecular genetics - recombinant DNA; biology of amphibians and reptiles
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Aparna Palmer, Associate Professor of Biology
Expertise: Marine biology; DNA sequencing; invertebrate zoology
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Forbes Davidson, Associate Professor of Biology
Expertise: Whirling disease; cellular communication
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Gary McCallister, Professor of Biology
Expertise: "Artificial Life: Computers and Life;" "Living Together: The Other Unifying Principle of Biology;" mosquito control and vector biology; "Race and Racism: The Biological View;" "Solar Solution: Deforestation, Pollution and Hunger;" "The Arts and Science Connection: How the Arts Create the Scientific Mind;" "Brain and Mind: An Owners Manual;" "Mosquito Control to Fit your Town: Why It's Important and How to do it Right"
Media: Program presentation
Broadcasgint & Journalism
Laurena Mayne Davis, Lecturer in Mass Communications
Expertise: Writing and editing for newspaper and magazine; advising student publications
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Byron Evers, Associate Professor of Mass Communications
Expertise: Photojournalism; desktop publishing; interviewing; news writing; feature writing; journalism ethics; First Amendment; libel; finding internet web sites for journalists and gathering information on the internet
Media: Program presentation
Regis Tucci, Assistant Professor of Mass Communications
Expertise: Broadcasting; journalism; mass communications; public relations; international communications
Media: Program presentation
Business
Dr. Tim Hatten, Associate Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Small business management; entrepreneurship (new venture creation); marketing; business planning
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. John Knappenberger, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Business management; communications; human relations; personal finances; stock market; languages; total quality management
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Jerry Moorman, Professor of Business Administration, Director of Graduate Programs
Expertise: Marketing; entrepreneurship
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Chemistry
Dr. Craig Dodson, Professor of Chemistry
Expertise: Environmental chemistry; natural products chemistry; basic chemical equipment and instrumentation; laboratory development
Media: Program presentation
Communications
Dr. John Knappenberger, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Business management; communications; human relations; personal finances; stock market; languages; total quality management
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Forbes Davidson, Associate Professor of Biology
Expertise: Whirling disease; cellular communication
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Pat Schutz, Assistant Professor of Business Administration/Management
Expertise: Human resource management; general management; communications; ethics; human relations; employee relations; organizational culture/structure
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Computer Application / Education
Dr. Gary McCallister, Professor of Biology
Expertise: "Artificial Life: Computers and Life;" "Living Together: The Other Unifying Principle of Biology;" mosquito control and vector biology; "Race and Racism: The Biological View;" "Solar Solution: Deforestation, Pollution and Hunger;" "The Arts and Science Connection: How the Arts Create the Scientific Mind;" "Brain and Mind: An Owners Manual;" "Mosquito Control to Fit your Town: Why It's Important and How to do it Right"
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Chad Grabow, Professor of Computer Information Systems
Expertise: Business computer applications; computer education
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Donald Carpenter, Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems
Expertise: Corporate planning for information technology; information requirements determination; database design; e-commerce and web design; data communications and network design and management; managing and motivating computer personnel; staffing IT functions; work design to enhance meaningfulness of work and improve motivation
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Constitutional Law
Byron Evers, Associate Professor of Mass Communications
Expertise: Photojournalism; desktop publishing; interviewing; news writing; feature writing; journalism ethics; First Amendment; libel; finding internet web sites for journalists and gathering information on the internet
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Michael Gizzi, Associate Professor of Political Science
Expertise: Constitutional law and civil liberties; American presidency; American political thought; politics of cyberspace; media and politics
Media: Program presentation
Cooperative Education
Dr. Mary Zimmerer, Professor of Business
School of Business and Professional Studies
Expertise: Team learning techniques; learning styles and teaching to different styles; Cooperative Education Internships; small business management and accounting
Media: Print, TV, Radio, Program Presentation
Dr. Tim Casey, Associate Professor of Political Science
Expertise: Current world events; international relations
Media: Program presentation
DNA
Dr. Aparna Palmer, Associate Professor of Biology
Expertise: Marine biology; DNA sequencing; invertebrate zoology
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Denise McKenney, Professor of Biology
Expertise: "The Kitchen Laboratory: Isolate DNA from Food;" edible microbiology
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Steve Werman, Professor of Biology, Department Head of Biological Sciences
Expertise: Molecular genetics - recombinant DNA; biology of amphibians and reptiles
Media: Program presentation
Dance
Ann Sanders, Associate Professor of Dance
Expertise: Workshops in dance
Media: Program presentation
Domestic Violence
Dr. Gene Starbuck, Professor of Sociology, Department Head of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Expertise: Alternative views of domestic violence
Media: Program presentation
Ecology
Dr. Tamera Minnick, Associate Professor of Environmental Science
Expertise: Climate change, Natural Resources, Invasive Species, Restoration Ecology, Plant Ecology
Media: print, tv, radio, program presentation
Education
Dr. Janine Rider, Professor of English
Expertise: Shakespeare; contemporary writers; women writers; issues in teacher education; liberal arts in the 21st century
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Cathy Barkley, Director of the Center for Teacher Education, Professor of Mathematics
Expertise: Mathematics education K-12; mathematics of the Maya; ethnomathematics topics; solstice markers of the Anasazi/Fremont; Ute beadwork designs
Media: Program presentation
Deborah K Snider, Coordinator of Internship Placement and Pre-Admissions Advising, Department of Teacher Education, and Art Methods Instructor
Expertise: Arts management; creativity and creative problem solving; art education
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Amy Rushneck, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, Secondary Licensure Program Coordinator
Expertise: Literacy; visual/media studies; multicultural education; curriculum theory; interdisciplinary studies; gifted and talented education
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Electronics / Telecommunications
Gordon Koch, Lecturer of Electronics and Telecommunications, WCCC
Tilman M. Bishop Campus
Expertise: CISCO Academy; electronics technology
Media: Program presentation
Environment
Dr. Tamera Minnick, Associate Professor of Environmental Science
Expertise: Climate change, Natural Resources, Invasive Species, Restoration Ecology, Plant Ecology
Media: print, tv, radio, program presentation
Dr. Russ Walker, Professor of Environmental Restoration
Expertise: "Sins of the Past: Cleaning Up Our Hazardous Waste Sites"
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Steve Schulte, Professor of History
Expertise: American Indian history; American western history; environmental history of the American west
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Gigi Richard, Assistant Professor of Geology
Expertise: Surface water hydrology; water resources; human impacts on river systems; environmental river mechanics/applied fluvial geomorphology; GPS/GIS applications
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Ethics
Dr. Susan Becker, Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Stress management; ethical issues
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Pat Schutz, Assistant Professor of Business Administration/Management
Expertise: Management; communications; ethics; human relations; human resource management; employee relations; organizational culture/structure
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Evolution
Dr. Clare Boulanger, Professor of Anthropology
Expertise: Peoples of Borneo; human evolution; islands of Southeast Asia
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Tony Schountz, Associate Professor of Biology
Expertise: Hantavirus disease; immunology; genetics and biotechnology; evolution and science education
Media: Program presentation
Financial Aid
Curt Martin, Director of Financial Aid
Expertise: Financial aid and paying for college
Media: Program presentation
Fine Arts
Carolyn Quinn-Hensley, Associate Professor of Graphic Arts
Expertise: Fine art conservation; graphic design; constructed paintings
Media: Program presentation
Deborah K Snider, Coordinator of Internship Placement and Pre-Admissions Advising, Department of Teacher Education, and Art Methods Instructor
Expertise: Arts management; creativity and creative problem solving; art education
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Susan Jandries-Claffey, Professor of Art
Expertise: Watercolor demos; critiques; art history
Media: Program presentation
Vern Mosher, Professor of Art
Expertise: Demonstrations; bronze and process; ceramics; bronze liaison projects
Media: Program presentation
Geology
Dr. Rex Cole, Professor of Geology, Department Head of Physical and Environmental Sciences
Expertise: Energy and mineral resources; earth sciences; geology equipment; mineral and fossil collections
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Gigi Richard, Assistant Professor of Geology
Expertise: Surface water hydrology; water resources; human impacts on river systems; environmental river mechanics/applied fluvial geomorphology; GPS/GIS applications
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Genetics
Dr. Steve Werman, Professor of Biology, Department Head of Biological Sciences
Expertise: Molecular genetics - recombinant DNA; biology of amphibians and reptiles
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Tony Schountz, Associate Professor of Biology
Expertise: Hantavirus disease; immunology; genetics and biotechnology; evolution and science education
Media: Program presentation
Hazardous Waste
Dr. Russ Walker, Professor of Environmental Restoration
Expertise: "Sins of the Past: Cleaning Up Our Hazardous Waste Sites"
Media: Program presentation
Health and Wellness
Dr. Jill Cordova, Professor of Human Performance and Wellness.
Expertise: Health and wellness issues for individuals with disabilities; corporate fitness; nutrition - weight control and exercise
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Keith Fritz, Associate Professor of Human Performance and Wellness
Expertise: The health benefits of incorporating physical activity into your daily routine
Media: Print; program presentation
Dr. Gig Leadbetter, Professor of Human Performance and Wellness
Expertise: Antioxidants; attitude physiology; exercise programming (strength and cardiovascular); general knowledge of exercise-induced asthma; all performance and exercise related topics
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Steven Murray, Associate Professor, Department Head of Human Performance and Wellness
Expertise: Personal wellness; health concerns
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Kristy Reuss, Professor of Nursing, Department Head of Nursing and Radiologic Sciences
Expertise: Community health; nursing; health promotion; disease prevention; complementary and alternative medicine; teen pregnancy; homelessness; public health issues
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Cindy Thomas, Associate Professor of Nursing
Expertise: Health promotion; wellness and exercise; health care careers; heart health
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Bette Schans, Professor of Radiologic Technology/Director of Radiologic Technology Program
Expertise: Radiologic technology; ethics; health care management
Media: Print
History
Dr. Steve Schulte, Professor of History
Expertise: American Indian history; American western history; environmental history of the American west
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Sarah Swedberg, Associate Professor of History
Expertise: American colonial history; American Revolution; U.S. women's history
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Douglas O'Roark, Professor of History
Expertise: Ancient Greece/Rome; classical archeology
Media: Program presentation
Human Relations
Dr. John Knappenberger, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Business management; communications; human relations; personal finances; stock market; languages; total quality management
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Pat Schutz, Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Management; communications; ethics; human relations; human resource management; employee elations; organizational culture/structure
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Information Technology
Dr. Donald Carpenter, Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems
Expertise: Corporate planning for information technology; information requirements determination; database design; e-commerce and web design; data communications and network design and management; managing and motivating computer personnel; staffing IT functions; work design to enhance meaningfulness of work and improve motivation
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
International Affairs
Dr. Tim Casey, Associate Professor of Political Science
Expertise: Current world events; international relations
Media: Program presentation
Kenya
Dr. Julie Barak, Associate Professor of English, Department Head Languages, Literature and Communication
Expertise: Kenyan literature; Kenyan politics and history; ethnic groups in Kenya; contemporary American ethnic literature; contemporary American women writers
Media: Program presentation
Kitchen Lab / Edible Microbiology
Dr. Denise McKenney, Professor of Biology
Expertise: "The Kitchen Laboratory: Isolate DNA from Food;" edible microbiology
Media: Program presentation
Languages
Dr. John Knappenberger, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Business management; communications; human relations; personal finances; stock market; languages; total quality management
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Maureen Neal, Associate Professor of English
Expertise: Language politics; language diversity (slang, dialect, register, Ebonics, Spanglish, ESL and acquisitions issues); English education and teacher preparation issues (disciplinary)
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Betsy McLoughlin, Associate Professor of Foreign Language
Expertise: Spanish literature survey; Medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature; Spain's epic poem "el Cid;" history of the Spanish language
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Andrew Gordon, Associate Professor of Spanish
Expertise: Spanish and American Sign Language
Media: Program presentation
Learning Styles
Dr. Mary Zimmerer, Professor of Business
School of Business and Professional Studies
Expertise: Team learning techniques; learning styles and teaching to different styles; cooperative education Internships; small business management and accounting
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Literature
Dr. Julie Barak, Associate Professor of English, Department Head Languages, Literature, and Communication
Expertise: Kenyan literature; Kenyan politics and history; ethnic groups in Kenya; contemporary American ethnic literature; contemporary American women writers
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Esther Broughton, Professor of English
Expertise: Southwestern literature and culture; southern writers
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Matts Djos, Professor of English
Expertise: Modern and contemporary American literature; 17th century British poetry; research methods; literature and alcoholism
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Kurt Haas, Associate Professor of English
Expertise: Medieval literature, particularly Chaucer; the legends of King Arthur; Shakespeare
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Barry Laga, Associate Professor of English
Expertise: Current trends in contemporary literature and film; 20th century American literature; experimental prose; politics of fairy tale; postmodernism; image/culture/ideology; critical/cultural theory
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Betsy McLoughlin, Associate Professor of Foreign Language
Expertise: Spanish literature survey; Medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature; Spain's epic poem "el Cid;" history of the Spanish language
Media: Program presentation.
Dr. Janine Rider, Professor of English
Expertise: Shakespeare; contemporary writers; women writers; issues in teacher education; liberal arts in the 21st Century
Media: Program presentation
Management
Dr. Richard Vail, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Management - production; operations; organizational theory; strategy; policy; international
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Pat Schutz, Assistant Professor of Business Administration/Management
Expertise: Management; communications; ethics; human relations; human resource management; employee relations; organizational culture/structure
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Donald Carpenter, Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems
Expertise: Corporate planning for information technology; information requirements determination; database design; e-commerce and web design; data communications and network design and management; managing and motivating computer personnel; staffing IT functions; work design to enhance meaningfulness of work and improve motivation
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Frank Markham, Associate Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Strategic planning; strategic management
Media: Print; program presentation
Marketing
Dr. Tim Hatten, Associate Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Small business management; entrepreneurship (new venture creation); marketing; business planning
Media: Program presentation
Mathematics
Dr. Cathy Barkley, Director of the Center for Teacher Education, Professor of Mathematics
Expertise: Mathematics education K-12; mathematics of the Maya; ethnomathematics topics; solstice markers of the Anasazi/Fremont
Media: Program presentation
Media / Politics
Dr. Michael Gizzi, Associate Professor of Political Science
Expertise: Constitutional law and civil liberties; American presidency; American political thought; politics of cyberspace; media and politics
Media: Program presentation
Music
Dr. Monte Atkinson, Professor of Music
Expertise: Choral clinics; guest conducting
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Calvin Hofer, Associate Professor of Music, Department Head of Fine and Performing Arts/Music
Expertise: Guest conductor; trumpet soloist; clinician / adjudicator
Media: Program presentation
Nursing and Health Care
Jeanne Marie, Associate Professor of Nursing
Expertise: Pediatric nursing; care of children; child development
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Kristy Reuss, Professor of Nursing; Department Head of Nursing and Radiologic Sciences
Expertise: Community health; nursing; health promotion; disease prevention; complementary and alternative medicine; teen pregnancy; homelessness; public health issues
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Judy Goodhart, Professor of Nursing
Expertise: Nursing
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. Bette Schans, Professor of Radiologic Technology/Director of Radiologic Technology Program
Expertise: Radiologic technology; ethics; health care management
Media: Print
Personal Finances
Dr. John Knappenberger, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Business management; communications; human relations; personal finances; stock market; languages; total quality management
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Physics
Dr. Gordon Gilbert, Professor of Physics
Expertise: Astrophysics: the big bang; life in the universe; galaxies; quasars; astronomy; black holes; high energy physics: fundamental particles; solar neutrinos; cosmic rays; physics foundations: relativity & quantum theory; cosmology
Media: Program presentation
Poetry
Dr. Randy Phillis, Professor of English
Expertise: Poetry workshops; poetry readings; magazine editing and production
Media: Program presentation
Quality Management
Dr. John Knappenberger, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Business management; communications; human relations; personal finances; stock market; languages; total quality management
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Psychology
Dr. Susan Becker, Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Stress management; ethical issues
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Jessica Miller, Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Sports psychology; developmental psychology in childcare; parenting; cognitive development; areas of normal child and adolescent development
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Harry Tiemann, Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Industrial and organizational psychology; environmental psychology
Media: Program presentation
Radiology
Patti Ward, Associate Professor Radiology Technology
Expertise: Radiology
Media: Print
Southeast Asia
Dr. Clare Boulanger, Professor of Anthropology
Expertise: Peoples of Borneo; human evolution; islands of Southeast Asia
Media: Program presentation
Spanish Heritage
Dr. Tom Acker, Associate Professor of Spanish
Expertise: Anglos as seen in classics of Hispanic literature; the paintings of Diego Velazquez; theatre of the Spanish Golden Age; playwright Pedro Calderon de la Barca; Emblemata; lady fortune; and the Jesuit moralist Baltasar Gracian
Media: Program presentation
Dr. Betsy McLoughlin, Associate Professor of Foreign Language
Expertise: Spanish literature survey; Medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature; Spain's epic poem "el Cid;" history of the Spanish language
Media: Program presentation
Luis Silva-Villar, Associate Professor of Spanish
Expertise: Spanish in the U.S.; Spanish in the world; Spanish linguistics (syntax, morphology, phonology, history); language variation; language awareness in the media; Spanish heritage speakers; the interface between music and language
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Speech and Debate
Dr. Tim Casey, Associate Professor of Political Science, Advisor for Student Speech and Debate Club
Expertise: Current world events; international relations
Media: Program presentation
Statistics
Dr. Tim Novotny, Professor of Statistics
Expertise: Monte Carlo simulation; statistical software (Minitab); global positioning systems (GPS); sampling distribution software
Media: Program presentation
Stock Market
Dr. Morgan Bridge, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Department Head of Business Administration
Expertise: Finance: stock market and investing; economics: wage increases; monetary policy; Federal Reserve
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Dr. John Knappenberger, Professor of Business Administration
Expertise: Business management; communications; human relations; personal finances; stock market; languages; total quality management
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Stress Management
Dr. Susan Becker, Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Stress management; ethical issues
Media: Program presentation
Survival
Dr. Bruce Baurele, Professor of Biology
Expertise: Plants; fisheries; ecology; survival; whales; adventures in Antarctica, the coral reefs; Alaska; the rain forests; Australia and New Zealand; cruise ships and ecology tours
Media: Program presentation
Water
Dr. Gigi Richard, Assistant Professor of Geology
Expertise: Surface water hydrology; water resources; human impacts on river systems; environmental river mechanics/applied fluvial geomorphology; GPS/GIS applications
Media: Print; tv; radio; program presentation
Writing Workshops
Dr. Allen Learst, Associate Professor of English
Expertise: Writing workshops in fiction; writing workshops in nonfiction; readings
Media: Program presentation
