A Message from the Provost Dr. Francesca Ortegren Dr. Tyson Thomas Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Assistant Professor of Economics We are delighted to welcome our PhD in Experimental Psychology with a PhD in Economics, Kansas State new faculty to the McKendree concentration in Cognitive Psychology, MS in Economics and Finance, Southern Texas Tech University University Edwardsville University community. Each MA in Experimental Psychology, Texas Tech BS in Economics, University of them brings a unique set of University Edwardsville knowledge, skills, and expertise that BA in Psychology, Texas Tech University will enrich the academic experience for our students. Their areas of professional interest are diverse, including the study of Ortegren served as the Assistant Department Chair Thomas has served as an Assistant Professor of fish behaviors, chemical analysis of biological systems, at the University of Southern Indiana, where she has Economics at Blackburn since 2015, where he and economic demand for professional sports, among worked since 2015. She has taught classes in cognitive taught courses in corporate finance, labor economics, others. They are an impressive group of professionals, psychology, research methods, and sensation and and money and banking. His current research focuses and we look forward to working with them for many perception in a variety of formats – traditional, online, on understanding the demand for professional sports. years to come! and hybrid. She has mentored seven undergraduate To date, he has given one scholarly presentation and students as they prepared to give conference published two research articles. In 2013, he received presentations. To date, she has given 19 scholarly the Graduate Student Teaching Award from the presentations and published two research articles. Department of Economics at Kansas State University. Christine M. Bahr, Ph.D. Provost

Dr. Michael Louison Dr. Maria Salari Dr. Sara Trask Assistant Professor of Biology Assistant Professor of Chemistry Assistant Professor of Speech Communication PhD in Natural Resources and PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology; PhD in Communication, University of Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois also Computational Biology and Molecular Missouri-Columbia at Urbana-Champaign Biophysics, Rutgers University MA in Communication, University of MS in Biology, University of Illinois at BS in Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh Missouri-St. Louis Urbana-Champaign BA in Organizational Communication with BA in Biology, Ripon College an emphasis in Marketing/Sales, McKendree University BA in Speech Communication with an emphasis in Public Relations, McKendree University Louison recently completed his PhD at the University Salari, a physical chemist, has served as a Visiting Trask, an alumna of McKendree, has served as an of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation Assistant Professor at Bucknell University and at the Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at was titled, “Role of behavior and physiology in University of Illinois at Springfield. She completed a Randolph-Macon College since 2015, where she driving vulnerability to recreational angling in teaching postdoctoral program at Rutgers University taught courses in communication theory, health sportfish.” During his graduate studies, he designed in Spring 2016. She has designed and taught an communication, and interpersonal and small group and taught a new course that included the use of upper-level course in computational chemistry and communication. She has given 11 conference papers software to analyze data taken from behavioral and a chemistry course for pre-nursing students. She has (three of which earned the “Top Paper” designation), physiological experiments on fish. He has directed given four scholarly presentations and published eight written two book chapters, and published five research three undergraduate independent study projects, research articles. In 2014, she received the Reid Award articles. In 2017, she received the Art Conway given four scholarly presentations, and published four for Excellence in Research from the Department Enthusiasm for Teaching and Learning Award from research articles. Since 2013, he has been involved of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers the Honors Program at Randolph-Macon College. in community service and outreach activities in University. environmental science.