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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Capacity and Commitment
  • The Bachelors of Liberal Studies is the only undergraduate program on campus in continuing education
  • Learning communities across campus rely on LAS for linked courses
  • LAS participates in Upward Bound, which provides instruction in math, laboratory science, composition, literature, and foreign language for first generation and low income students
  • LAS faculty participate in OPPTAG, a pre-collegiate program for talented and gifted childrenFaculty Efforts:
  • Craig Anderson and Doug Gentile are national experts on the effects of violent video games
  • Alicia Carriquiry has helped defense attorneys with her work determining that law enforcement agencies cannot match bullets used in crimes to unspent bullets in possession of suspects
  • Carl Chang was President of IEEE Computer Society, overseeing 120 staff members and over 100,000 members world-wide
  • Charlie Drewes, recently deceased, worked with secondary biology teachers across the nation
  • Doug Epperson works with law enforcement officials around the country to help improve screening techniques for sexual offenders
  • George Kraus has discovered an ingredient to add to anhydrous ammonia to make it ineffective for meth production
  • Jake Petrich invented a machine to detect E-coli in food stuffs without using bioassays
  • Steve Rodermel is developing corn with higher vitamin A content to help prevent deaths and blindness from vitamin A deficiency
  • Gary Wells is internationally known for his groundbreaking research on eyewitness identification and is also President of the American Psychology Law Society
  • Statistics faculty work in the Center for Survey Statistics and methodology, providing survey research services for multiple clients, including the USDA (in the form of statistical support for the National Resources Inventory)
Air Force Aerospace Studies - Anthropology - Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology - Chemistry - Computer Science
Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology - Economics - English - Genetics, Development & Cell Biology - Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication - History - Mathematics - Military Science - Music - Naval Science
Philosophy & Religious Studies - Physics and Astronomy - Political Science - Psychology - Sociology - Statistics - World Languages & Cultures
African American Studies - American Indian Studies - Biological/Premedical Illustration - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Classical Studies - Communication Studies - Criminal Justice Studies - Environmental Science - Environmental Studies - Interdisciplinary Studies
International Studies - Liberal Studies - Linguistics - Software Engineering - Speech Communication - U.S. Latino/a Studies - Women's Studies