New Faculty Appointments

With the start of fall semester, new full-time and part-time faculty are hired to teach, research and interact with our growing population of students. Where faculty are the root for building educational excitement in students, it is this wonderful, diverse population of young (and not so young) minds that inhabit the classrooms and laboratories at Old Dominion University that greatly enrich the teaching and research for all of us. The University is a wonderful place to mesh intellect, ability and endless possibilities.

The College of Sciences welcomes the following new professors:

Moskov Amarian, Associate Professor, Physics
Amarian earned his doctorate in 1991 from the Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia, and has held senior scientist positions in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Armenia and Newport News (Jefferson Labs, formerly CEBAF). His research interest include: Spin structure of the nucleon, where he played a leading role for the First direct measurement of gluon polarization in the nucleon; Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering, where he played a leading role in the first measurement of Compton Scattering on quark level using polarized positron beam of HERA accelerator at DESY to discriminate the interference between background sub-processes and the process of interest; Measurement of the new exotic baryon with pentaquark structure at HERMES

Moskov Amarian

Heather Beck, Lecturer, Mathematics and Statistics
Beck earned her master's degree in 1995 from Old Dominion University and has taught in an adjunct position for the department for several years before being appointed to a full-time position. Prior experience includes teaching Algebra I, II and Calculus at the high school and community college levels.

Heather Beck

Alexander Bochdansky, Assistant Professor, Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Bochdansky earned his doctorate in 1997 at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Prior to coming to the department, he held postdoctoral positions at the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies and at the Fish Ecology Laboratory at Queen's University. His research interests include: ecophysiology of zooplankton; trophic interactions; heterogeneity in the (feeding) environment; assimilation of organic nutrients; bioenergetics.

Alexander Bochdansky

Lisa Horth, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Horth earned her doctorate in 2001 at Florida State University. Prior to joining the department, she was a research associate for the University of Virginia. Her research interests include: molecular variation in color polymorphisms in nature; persistence of rarity in nature; effects of population structure; evolutionary ecology, molecular and population genetics, conservation biology, birds and fish.

Lisa Horth

Hutson Lindner, Lecturer, Mathematics and Statistics
Lindner earned his master's degree in mathematics in 1999 from Old Dominion University. He has held an adjunct appointment with the department for several years prior to be hired as a full-time instructor.

Hutson Lindner

Li-Shi Luo, Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
Luo earned his doctorate in Physics in 1993 at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Just prior to joining the department, he was a research fellow for the National Institute of Aerospace. His research interests include: kinetic theory and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, lattice Boltzmann equation and CFD, complex fluids.

Li-Shi Luo

Michael Ott, Research Assistant, Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Ott earned his doctorate in physical oceanography in 2000 at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Prior to joining the department, he has held various teaching and research positions. His research interests focuses in the Coastal Ocean Advances in Shelf Transport (COAST) program, and he is examining the relationships between mixing, as measured by Thorpe scales and thermal dissipation, and the location and strength of fronts, jets and topography.

Michael Ott

Ruhai Zhou, Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
Zhou earned his doctorate in applied mathematics in 2001 from the University of New Mexico. Before joining the department, he was a postdoctoral research assistant professor for the Applied Mathematics Group, Department of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research interests include: numerical analysis, scientific computation, numerical simulations of liquid crystalline polymer and nano-composite material

Ruhai Zhou

Part-time, Adjunct, Visiting and One-year Appointed Teaching Faculty
We would like to extend a warm welcome to the part-time, adjunct, visiting and one-year appointed faculty (some who are retired from ODU) who fill an integral gap in the College by teaching many course and lab sections that otherwise would not be available to students.

Department of Biological Sciences
John Allsteadt
Karen Berling
Christina Dryden
Brian Dyer
Kushan Tennakoon, Visiting Assistant Professor
Diana Williams

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Roy Williams (Emeritus)

Department of Computer Science
Rekha Gupta

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Steve Atiyah (Emeritus)
Enoch Bentley
Bonnie Burke
Frank Carroll
George Chackman, Instructor
Rose Ann Corbin, Instructor
Robert Crumpler
Emily Geil
Penny Hix
Lee Land, Instructor
Mark Lesley (Emeritus)
Shahrooz Moosavizadeh
Mario Scribner
Vasanth Soloman
Charles Touran
Kenrick Waithe
Glenn Whitlock, Instructor

Department of Physics
Jens Bischof, Visiting Assistant Professor
Stephen L. Bueltmann, Research Assistant Professor
Alex Godunov
Mary Hix Hing

Department of Psychology
James Comstock
Sandra Jenkins
Jonina Moskowitz
Jason Parker
Susan Scerbo
Brooke Schaab
Sarah Schultz, Lecturer
Cynthia Shier
Lara Tedrow, Lecturer
Mona Tiernan
Gordon Whitman
Ruth Wienclaw
Jennifer Younkin, Lecturer

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