where he served as professor of political
science and the founding director of the
ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political,
Ethical, and Cultural Thought) program.
ments in Europe, including as Leibniz Pro-
fessor at Leipzig University, Senior
Research Scholar at the Max Planck Insti-
tute in Berlin, and as Alexander Humboldt
Professor in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
He has also been a Fulbright Professor.
Natter has assumed leadership in strategic
planning, program and curriculum devel-
opment, faculty development, accredita-
tion, fiscal and resource management,
internationalization, and community out-
reach.
sor of biology, came to Bona's from the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where
he was an associate lecturer and did his
postdoctoral training in the Department of
Biological Sciences.
pass the molecular mechanisms underlying
bacterial motility and pathogenesis, with a
focus on the role that secretion plays in
these processes.
model organism
Flavobacterium
johnsoniae to study
bacterial gliding
motility, a process
by which cells crawl
over solid surfaces
such as agar and
glass. Work in his
lab is also focused on the pathogenesis of
two fish pathogens related to F. johnso-
niae.
losses in the aquaculture industry each
year. Students working on this project have
the opportunity to work with bacterial
pathogens and learn about the mechanisms
bacteria can use to cause disease. Informa-
tion gathered from these studies will pro-
vide a better understanding of the
pathogenesis of these organisms and help
Rhodes has co-authored a number of pub-
lications on these topics in the Journal of
Bacteriology, BMC Microbiology, Proceed-
ings of the National Academy of Sciences
USA, and Applied and Environmental Mi-
crobiology.
fessor of English who teaches the under-
graduate courses "American Novel to
1865," "American Literature I," and
"Composition and Critical Thinking," as
well as graduate courses.
tributed the chapter
"Benjamin
Franklin's Material
Cultures," published
in "A Companion to
Benjamin Franklin,"
as well as "The Poli-
tics of Vision:
Charles Willson
Peale in Print,"
which appeared in the journal Early Amer-
ican Literature.
in Sight: Book Illustration and Authorship
in Early America, 1770-1830."
ting Howell) of Frank J. Webb's "The
Garies and Their Friends," under contract
with Broadview Press.
research awards, grants and fellowships,
Walsh most recently received the Society
for the History of the Early American Re-
public Fellowship from the Library Com-
pany of Philadelphia and Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, and the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/An-
drew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship
from the Harry Ransom Center at the Uni-
versity of Texas at Austin.