New faculty members

Nichea Spillane

PhD, University of Kentucky

Department of Psychology, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Substance use-related health disparities in underserved communities, Indigenous populations in North America, American Indians and First Nations

Jennifer Stapley

MEd, Northern Arizona University

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

Elementary education and teacher education and leadership, teach and supervise of preservice teachers at undergraduate and graduate level programs

Sarah Stewart

PhD, California Institute of Technology

School of Earth and Space Exploration, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

MacArthur Award

Formation and evolution of planetary bodies and the properties of planetary materials using shock wave techniques and numerical simulations

April Stonehouse

MS, University of Florida

School of Interdisciplinary Forensics, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

Forensic science technical leader with Mesa PD from 2013-2024, Criminalist IV and Acting DNA Supervising Criminalist with AZ Crime Lab from 2001-2013

Shaoyu Su

MFA, California Institute of the Arts

School of Art, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Immersive and virtual environments, computer graphics and visual effects, physics and mathematics, deep spacetime mining, system design, emergentism

Lakshmi Suresh

MS, Applied Mathematics

School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Math, calculus, algebra

Stylianos (Stelios) Syropoulos

PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst

School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures

Sustainable, prosocial, moral and intergenerationally-beneficent decision-making from an interdisciplinary perspective

Sami G. Tantawi

PhD, University of Maryland

Department of Physics, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Vacuum electronics, high-power RF devices, modeling of RF structures, planner RF circuits and high gradient accelerator structures

Tyson Terry

PhD, Utah State University

School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures and School of Life Sciences, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

How abiotic conditions interact with disturbance, invasion and reproductive requirements to shape ecosystems

Kara Thieleman

PhD, Arizona State University

School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

Psychology

Kathleen King Thorius

PhD, Arizona State University

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

Develops and facilitates cultural historical approaches to teacher learning, inclusive education as an intersectional education justice movement

Seth Thorn

PhD, Brown University

School of Arts, Media and Engineering, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Violinist whose research encompasses interaction design and philosophical approaches to computational media, music and human-computer interaction