Name Department Present Rank Effective Date Dr. Ricardo Eusebi Physics and
Astronomy
Assistant Professor 09/01/15 Ph.D. (2005) University of Rochester, New York
Fa 2009 - Present Texas A&M University Assistant Professor
Dr. Ricardo Eusebi works in the field of experimental high energy physics. His expertise lies in the area of the electroweak symmetry breaking and studies of the Higgs bosons as well as in jet energy corrections. He is an active member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider and is currently the co-convener of the upgrade studies group for Jet and Missing Energy. He authored 18 publications in peer-reviewed journals and serves regularly as a reviewer for several recognized journals. Dr. Eusebi was unanimously elected Officer of the United States CMS collaboration, representing the 50 Institutions from the United States working on the CMS detector. Dr. Eusebi is chair of the departmental graduate records committee and a member of the instructional technology and the colloquium committees.
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Dr. Eusebi teaches classical mechanics to first-year undergraduates. He received outstanding student evaluations that increase each year. He chaired a master student and is currently mentoring two doctoral students. He has served on committees of more than seven other master and doctoral students. He is the recipient of the 2012 Montague Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar Award. Dr. Eusebi has lead large outreach projects involving up to five undergraduates of physics and engineering.
Name Department Present Rank Effective Date Dr. Steven E. Wheeler Chemistry Assistant Professor 09/01/15 Ph.D. (2006) University of Georgia
Fa 2010 - Present Texas A&M University Assistant Professor
Dr. Steven E. Wheeler’s area of research is computational organic chemistry. He authored 30 peer-reviewed publications in top chemistry journals on topics ranging from the nature of non- covalent interactions to the computational design of more effective transition-metal-free catalysts. During this time, he received grants totaling over $1.1 million from the Welch Foundation.
Dr. Wheeler teaches one graduate course on quantum mechanics and four different undergraduate courses in the areas of physical and organic chemistry, including organic chemistry I for non- majors. He received uniformly superb student evaluations and received the 2014-2015 Montague Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar Award and the 2014 College of Science Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching from the Association of Former Students. He chaired six graduate student committees and served on 19 others.
Dr. Wheeler is being considered for early tenure because his research and teaching accomplishments, as judged by distinguished external reviewers, the department promotion and tenure committee, and the department head, are well beyond what is expected of successful candidates who have completed a full five-year probationary period and exemplary for someone after four years. In addition, he is an irreplaceable departmental citizen who has been involved in numerous service activities.
Name Department Present Rank Effective Date Dr. Igor Zelenko Mathematics Assistant Professor 09/01/15 Ph.D. (2002) Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Fa 2008 - Present Texas A&M University Assistant Professor
Dr. Igor Zelenko’s area is differential geometry and geometric control theory. He authored 27 publications and five preprints. He was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for $130,188 and funding from the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid for $2,700. He was invited to give talks at 20 international and national conferences. He also gave a lecture course on his achievements at the Institute of Henry Poincaré, Paris (2014) and was the main organizer of an international workshop there.
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Dr. Zelenko teaches courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels for Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics majors and consistently receives excellent teaching evaluations. He chaired one graduate student committee and served on five others. Currently, he supervises two master’s students.
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
Name Department Present Rank Effective Date Dr. Michael C. Golding Veterinary
Physiology & Pharmacology
Assistant Professor 09/01/15
Ph.D. (2003) Texas A&M University
Fa 2009 - Present Texas A&M University Assistant Professor
Dr. Michael C. Golding is a developmental biologist with a special emphasis in understanding how teratogens alter developmental programming and cause birth defects. He received over $3.5 million extramural research dollars, including $518,000 where he serves as the primary investigator. Dr. Golding is the recipient of the 2013 Zoetis Award for Research Excellence and published 12 peer-reviewed articles, three of which have been featured on the journal cover. He serves as a reviewer for 16 peer-reviewed journals and two study sections for the National Institutes of Health.
Name Department Present Rank Effective Date Dr. Carolyn Elizabeth Arnold Veterinary Large Animal Clinical Sciences Assistant Professor 09/01/15
D.V.M (1998) Michigan State University
Fa 2009 - Present Texas A&M University Assistant Professor
Dr. Carolyn Elizabeth Arnold’s area of expertise is equine soft tissue surgery. She has received funding for 11 research proposals totaling over $325,000 from internal, external and industry sources. She has authored 17 publications which focus on novel therapies for equine urogenital disorders and degenerative joint disease. She received the Clinical Service Award in 2013 from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Dr. Arnold teaches in the third and fourth-year veterinary professional curriculum, primarily in the area of urogenital and upper respiratory tract conditions. She developed a popular elective course and serves as the Large Animal Coordinator for Surgery I, a cornerstone course for third-year veterinary students that teaches principles of surgery and anesthesia. Her teaching evaluations receive high marks and she was awarded the Richard H. Davis Teaching Award from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in 2013. Dr. Arnold consistently receives positive reviews from students on the fourth-year clinical rotation. She mentored 10 residents and 15 interns, and has served on three masters and one doctoral committee.
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COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES (Continued) Dr. Michael C. Golding (continued)
Dr. Golding’s undergraduate and graduate courses explore the physiological processes of pregnancy and fetal development. He developed and is the instructor of record for three new courses and received outstanding student evaluations. He is the recipient of the 2011 Richard H. Davis teaching award as well as the 2012 Montague Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar Award. Dr. Golding is co-director of a service-learning project in collaboration with the Brazos Valley Autism Clinic. Since 2009, he served on the committees of 38 graduate students, 10 of which he is the chair.
Name Department Present Rank Effective Date Dr. J. Jill Heatley Veterinary Small
Animal Clinical Sciences
Associate Professor 09/01/15
D.V.M (1995) Texas A&M University
Fa 2009 - Present Texas A&M University Associate Professor
Dr. J. Jill Heatley's area of expertise is zoological and exotic animal medicine with emphasis on avian and reptile health and clinicopathologic diagnostics in these species. She is board certified by the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners as well as the American College of Zoological Medicine in Avian Medicine. She authored more than nine publications regarding clinical pathology diagnostics of avian, amphibian and reptilian species and many more on a variety of exotic animal topics germane to improving health. She received over $200,000 in funding from various external sources to support these investigations and was recently invited to the Texas City Y Spill incident to provide for avian health after exposure to oil.
Dr. Heatley teaches the zoo and exotic animal medicine clinical rotation in the fourth year, Clinical Correlates laboratories in the second year, and multiple exotic animal lectures in other required and elective courses in the veterinary professional curriculum. She co-chaired one graduate committee and served on two others.
Name Department Present Rank Effective Date Dr. Sara D. Lawhon Veterinary
Pathobiology
Assistant Professor 09/01/15
Ph.D. 2003 North Carolina State University
Sp 2008 - Present Texas A&M University Assistant Professor
Dr. Sara D. Lawhon’s specialty is bacterial pathogenesis and veterinary clinical microbiology with an emphasis on Salmonella pathogenesis and methicillin-resistant staphylococci. In addition to 20 papers on the molecular pathogenesis of salmonellae, she recently authored four papers on antimicrobial resistance in staphylococci. She received grants of over $600,000 from external sources including the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health. She provides a minimum of six months per year of clinical patient care in the clinical microbiology laboratory of the veterinary teaching hospital.
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COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES (Continued) Dr. Sara D. Lawhon (continued)
Dr. Lawhon teaches senior veterinary students infectious disease case management and how to use antimicrobial susceptibility data to make good clinical decisions about antimicrobial therapy in their patients. In addition, she also teaches microbiology to first-year veterinary students. She received outstanding student evaluations. Dr. Lawhon chaired five graduate student committees and served on 24 others. She also assisted seven veterinary residents and interns on research projects.
Name Department Present Rank Effective Date Dr. Gonzalo Rivera Veterinary
Pathobiology
Assistant Professor 09/01/15 Ph.D. (2002) Cornell University
Fa 2008 - Present Texas A&M University Assistant Professor
Dr. Gonzalo Rivera’s research area is cell and tissue morphogenesis in development and disease. Since 2008, Dr. Rivera authored nine publications. He received competitive grants totaling over $635,000, including awards from the American Heart Association and, more recently, from the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Rivera teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in cell biology and has received excellent student evaluations and critiques from the Texas A&M University Center for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Rivera currently serves as major advisor of three doctoral students, one postdoctoral fellow, and one undergraduate student. Dr. Rivera also mentored six undergraduate students through formal research experiences in his laboratory and served on committees of five other doctoral students.
Name Department Present Rank Effective Date Dr. Beiyan Zhou Veterinary
Physiology and Pharmacology
Assistant Professor 09/01/15
Ph.D. (2004) Northwestern University
Fa 2009 - Present Texas A&M University Assistant Professor
Dr. Beiyan Zhou’s research focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanism of non-coding RNAs in regulating blood cell formation and cancerous transformation, immune cell functions and their impacts on the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases associated with obesity. She published 12 peer-reviewed journal articles, including several high impact articles that have been highlighted by editors and international web servers for the medical society. She received a total of $2.14 million of extramural funding as principal investigator or mentor and $1.8 million as co-investigator or collaborator from federal and private agencies.
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COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES (Continued) Dr. Beiyan Zhou (continued)
Dr. Zhou created two new courses that have been offered to both undergraduate and graduate students for which she received outstanding evaluations. The two courses focus on stem cell biology and non-coding RNAs. She mentored eight undergraduate students and chaired or co- chaired seven graduate student committees and is a committee member for another seven. She also trained two postdoctoral fellows, two visiting scholars, and one exchange student. Among her trainees, two of them received prestigious research awards from the American Heart Association, two national conference awards and several travel awards. One of her undergraduate students was accepted by the National Institutes of Health-Post Baccalaureate Research Program starting in 2014.