Office of Sponsored Programs
The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) is the centralized unit charged with the coordination of research and sponsored programs activities on a campus-wide basis.
| Iwan Bagus, M.Sc., M.A. |
| Photography and Related Media |
| Angela Bradford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor |
| Normative vs. Pathological Language Disorders, Voice Disorders, Narrative Discourse |
| Angela Bullock, Ph.D., Assistant Professor |
| Technology in Social Work Education and Practice, Informal Caregiving, Co-ed Mental Health, Family Caregiving |
| Anika Burtin, Ph.D. Assistant Professor |
| Teacher Preparation, Adolescent Literacy |
| Michelle Chatman |
| Urban Ethnography, Gentrification, Youth Development, Culture and Well-Being |
| Benson Cooke, Ed.D., Associate Professor |
| Clinical Depression, Anxiety Disorders Across the Lifespan in African American, Cultural Competence for First Responders, Providing Crisis-Intervention Counseling in Disaster Relief to African Americans, Clinical Practice-Based Informing the Evidence-Based Practice of Culturally Responsive Generational Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder: Understanding the Role of Epigenomics for African Americans, Anger Management Interventions, Personal Empowerment Strategies for African American Youth, Rites of Passage Strategies for African American Males |
| Carolyn Cousin, Ph.D., Professor |
| Resistance and Susceptibility in Biomphalaria Glabrata, Intermediate Host to Schstosoma Mansoni (Flatworm); Cancer Outreach and Interventions for Cancer Control and Prevention |
| Abdi Darai, Ph.D., Associate Professor |
| Chaotic Dynamics and Fractal Geometry; Different Equations and Population Growth Models, , Applications of Higher Special Functions to Problems of Elasticity, Integration of Computer Algebra Systems in the Instruction of Calculus and Applications |
| Freddie M. Dixon, Ph.D., Professor |
| STEM Student Training |
| Jeffery Fleming, Ph.D., Associate Professor |
| Several Complex Variables, Differential Geometry, Pluripotential Theory, Bergman Projection, Bergman Kernel |
| Angelyn Spaulding Flowers |
| Development and Utilization of Computer Models and Computer-Based Simulations to Examine Social Destabilization Phenomenon Such as Crime Or Terrorism Within A complex Systems Framework; Community Disaster Resilience; Complex Systems Analysis |
| Tiffany C. Gurley-Nettles |
| Caregiver Influence on Post-Stroke Depression; Post-Stroke Depression and Stress |
| William A. Hanff, Ph.D., Assistant Professor |
| Emergence of Post –Security Thought; Creative Commons and Property Rights in Ideas; Cultural Evolution and ‘Liberal arts” in a Knowledge Economy; Curriculum Design for Free Inquiry into Media Production; “Willing” Suspension of Disbelief and Narratology |
| Alexander Howe, Ph.D., Professor, Chair, English Department |
| Brandy Huderson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor |
| Mammary gland breast cancer, Steroid Receptor biology |
| Amanda Huron, Ph.D. Assistant Professor |
| Urban Geography, Cooperative Housing, Urban Commons, Washington, DC History, Urban Planning, Affordable Housing, Cooperative Housing, Tenant Organizing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) |
| Allyn Johnson, B.A., Assistant Professor |
| Jazz Performance and Composition, Jazz Recording, Program Presentations |
| Richard C. Kalunga, Ph.D., |
| Literacy, Cognition, Early Intervention, Speech-Language Pathology, Achievement Gap, Multiculturalism |
| Ayanna Kelley, M. |
| STEM and Literacy for Minorities, Early Childhood |
| Okjin J. Kim, Ph.D. Compliance Officer |
| Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, Virology, Molecular Neuroscience, Neuropharmacology, Proteomics, Cancer Biology, Signal Transduction Pathways, G-protein-Couple Receptors |
| Arlene King-Berry, J.D., Professor |
| Education, Success and Retention in After School and College Orientation Programs, Developing and Validating Survey Instruments, Monitoring the Success Rate on the Practice I Exam, Developing, Retaining and Refreshing Early Childhood Educators, Paraprofessional Development, Curriculum and Syllabi Revision |
| Judith Korey, MA, Professor |
| Preservation and Access Presenting Music |
| Michelle Levere, MSW, |
| The Intersection of Race, Poverty and Domestic Sex Trafficking |
| Thomas Licata, D.M.A., Assistant Professor |
| Music Composition, Music Theory, Music Technology |
| April Massey, Ph.D., Dean |
| Intersection of Personal and Professional Identities, Balancing Constituent Expectations, Marker of Student Resilience and Satisfaction, Implications for Persistence, Emotional Underpinnings of Successful Academic Administrators of Color |
| Nathalie Mizelle-Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Professor |
| Women and Depression, Children and Adolescents with Disabilities; Resiliency, Microagressions, |
| Nelda Ormond, M.M, M.M.Edu, Professor |
| Music Influence on History and Culture, Music and the Brain |
| Carmen Ramos-Pizzaro, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor |
| Communication Patterns of Transgender Individuals in Transition, Voice Feminization Strategies, Clinical Teaching Methodologies |
| Xueging Song, Ph.D., Assistant Professor |
| Design and Synthesis of Derivatives of Biologically Potential Organic and Organometallic Molecules Aimed at Enhancing Their Bioavailability and Target Selectivity, Characterization of Their Structures Using State-of-the-Art Spectroscopic, Photo Physical and Electrochemical Methods, Understanding the Relationship Between the Properties of the Molecular Components and Their Bioavailability and Use That knowledge to Direct Our Synthetic Efforts. |
| Olive Vassell, M.A., Associate Professor |
| Black Europe, Urban and Community Journalism |
| Daniel Venne, MFA, Art Program Director/Associate Professor |
| Visual Art; Art History; Cognitive Behavior and Neoroscience As It Relates to Creativity and Visual Sensibility |
| Angela Bradford Wainwright, Ph.D. Assistant Professor |
| Narrative Production – African American Older Adults; Voice Disorders; Normal + Professional Voice Production; Normal Language Production; Cognitive-linguistic Research |
| Jillian Wendt, Ed.D., Assistant Professor |
| Science Education, Technology in Education, Distance Learning, International Education |
| Wynn Yarbrough, M.A. Professor |
| Children’s Poetry; Gender; Education-Literacy; Modern American Poetry; British/Commonwealth Poetry |