Dr. Magdy Bayoumi is the department head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His expertise includes sensing technologies and sensor nodes, data processing, and the management of energy applications to military and security fields.
Dr. Hisham Daoud’s research on efficient seizure prediction could improve the lives of millions of people living with epilepsy.
Environmental and Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. candidate Ronald Kittle has received the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.
Kittle has built an impressive record of supporting faculty and undergraduate students in the classroom in his role as a graduate teaching assistant.
Applied Language and Speech Sciences Ph.D. candidate Megan Quebedeaux has received the 2022 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award.
The award recognizes Quebedeaux’s exceptional contributions as the official instructor of record for teaching in the Department of Communicative Disorders in the spring and fall of 2021.
Corey Saft is a professor in the School of Architecture and Design and a licensed architect and a LEED-AP. Saft was the developer of the first certified PassiveHouse in the hot/humid zone of the American South and the first Louisiana LEED-platinum home outside of New Orleans.
Dr. Catherine Roche-Wallace is an associate professor of horn and theory, and has served as the coordinator of graduate studies in the School of Music and Performing Arts since 2017. She has performed with orchestras in Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, and Michigan, and the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and has presented recitals in eight U.S. states, Canada, and Finland.
Dr. Hung-Chu Lin is the SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Professor in Liberal Arts. Her research focus includes the development of emotions, parenting, attachment relationships, and developmental disabilities. She runs the Developmental Science Laboratory (DSL), which takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the complexity of adjusted and maladjusted developmental processes.
Dr. Michael Kightley is an associate professor and co-director of graduate studies in English. Their research focuses on medieval English literature and medievalism — the study of modern re-imaginings of the medieval period.
Dr. David Khey is an associate professor and department head for the Department of Criminal Justice. He is also the associate director for the Center for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. Dr. Khey's work focuses on drug policy, effective policing strategies, campus crime and safety, drug testing technology, medicolegal research and jury decision making.
The Graduate School has selected Khey as a recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Master’s Mentor Award.
Dr. William Chirdon is an associate professor of chemical engineering whose areas of research encompass polymers, plastics, heat transfer, and sustainable materials. He also serves as the graduate coordinator for the chemical engineering master’s degree program.
