Faculty and Staff

Joseph A. Arruda, Professor of Environmental Biology. [Ph.D., Kansas State University]

Specialties: limnology, water quality and biological monitoring and assessment, land snails
Advising Areas: environmental science, ecology, invertebrate zoology, marine biology
Heckert Wells 323 / voice: (620)235-4738 / e-mail Dr. Arruda
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Peter Chung, Associate Professor of Microbiology. [Ph.D., Kansas State University]

Specialties: microbiology, molecular biology (nucleic acid manipulation and protein expression systems in microbes and coccidia), tissue culture
Advising Areas: pre-medical, pre-dental, pre-optometry, pre-physical therapy, microbiology, medical technology
Heckert Wells 303 / voice: (620)235-4736 / e-mail Dr. Chung

James T. Dawson, Professor of Botany [Ph.D., University of Kentucky]

Cynthia S. Ford, Professor of Biology. [Ph.D., Kansas State University]

Specialties: natural history, parasitology, environmental education, biological illustration
Advising Areas: natural history, ecological restoration, pre-pt
Heckert Wells 321 / voice:(620)235-4728 / e-mail Dr. Cindy Ford

Steven D. Ford, Professor of Zoology. [Ph.D., Purdue University]

Specialties: vertebrate zoology, mammalogy, ornithology, ecology, wildlife management, anatomy
Advising Areas: wildlife biology and conservation, zoology, ecology
Heckert Wells 330 / voice: (620)235-4745 / e-mail Dr. Steve Ford

David Gordon, Associate Professor of Biology. [Ph.D., University of California at Davis]

Specialties: entomology, ecology
Advising Areas: pre-medical, pre-veterinary, pre-optometry, pre-forestry, entomology
Heckert Wells 325 / voice: (620)235-4735 / e-mail Dr. Gordon
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Phillip Harries, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology. [Ph.D. Washington University]

Hermann Nonnenmacher, Assistant Professor of Biology. [Ph.D., Saint Louis University]

Mandy Peak, Assistant Professor of Biology. [Ph.D., Oklahoma Health Sciences Center]

Virginia Rider, Professor of Zoology. [Ph.D., Arizona State University]

Specialties: gene regulation, reproductive physiology, implantation, mammalian oocyte maturation
Advising Areas: pre-medical, pre-veterinary medicine
Heckert Wells 213 / voice: (620)235-4739 / e-mail Dr. Rider

Neal Schmidt, Instructor. [D. Pharmacy, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center]

Dixie L. Smith, Associate Professor of Biology, Chairperson. [Ph.D., Kansas State University]

Specialties: soil ecology, grassland ecology, woodland expansion, science education
Advising Areas: secondary education
Heckert Wells 220 / voice: (620)235-4741 / e-mail Dr. Smith

Stephen L. Timme, Emeritus Professor of Botany and Director, T. M. Sperry Herbarium. [Ph.D., Mississippi State University]

James R. Triplett, University Professor. [Ph.D., University of Kansas]

Xiaolu Wu, Assistant Professor of Biology. [Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago]

Daniel Zurek, Professor of Biology. [Ph.D., University of California - San Diego]

Specialties: cellular and molecular biology, biotechnology, and plant molecular physiology.
Advising Areas: pre-medical, cell and molecular, biotechnology
Heckert Wells 222 / voice:(620)235-4746 / e-mail Dr. Zurek

Kelly Borden, Administrative Specialist

Specialties: budgets, purchasing, filing, fixing copier machines, phone, email, fax, everything important
Heckert Wells 223 / voice: (620)235-4731 / e-mail Kelly Borden

Donna Lair, Storekeeper

Delia Lister, Director, Nature Reach

Suzanne Arruda, Temporary Instructor