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Dr. Nanni is a structural engineer interested in construction materials, their structural performance, and field application.  His interests are in the field of civil infrastructure sustainability and renewal. He specializes in coastal construction, including new methods of constructing sea walls to be longer lasting and better performing.

Burt Rosenburg teaches about cryptography and computer networks in the Department of Computer Science. Financial cryptography and scientific visualization are his primary fields of research. Department Bio/CV Dr. Rosenberg was recently involved with the 18th Annual Conference of the International Financial Cryptography Association, at which Bitcoin was heavily discussed.

Dr. Roger Kanet can speak about cultural and political issues in modern Russia, including the current crisis with Russia, Ukraine and the Crimea. Professor Kanet’s major teaching and research interests focus on postcommunist Europe, on questions of European and global security, democratization and nationalism, both in a comparative perspective, and on aspects of U.S. foreign […]

Professor Bush specializes in modern American history, with an emphasis on political, intellectual, and cultural history.  He is an expert on the US Presidency, media and politics. He can speak about the developing situation in Syria as it relates to decisions made by the White House and President, and the way that media presents these […]

Dr. Lynch is a sociolinguist, and professor of Spanish, whose research focuses on language in society, language policy, language-based discrimination, bilingual education, bilingualism, as well as, specifically, Spanish in the United States and Hispanic immigration in the US.

Ethics, Healthcare, Public Policy and Business Law Department Bio/CV

Dr. Timpano is an expert on anxiety, stress and OCD. The primary aim of my research is to further our understanding of factors that play a role in the etiology, comorbidn mechanisms and integrative risk models that seek to predict symptoms and explain associated features.  A secondary, yet interwoven domain is to apply vulnerability-focused research […]

Ph.D.,  Professor and Director of the Middle East Studies Institute, incumbent of the Dr. M. Lee Pearce Chair in Middle East Peace Studies, and founding director of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies. Since 1995, Shaked has been involved in the establishment of the first private university in Israel, The Interdisciplinary […]

An associate professor of English and Jewish Studies, Dr. Omer-Sherman teaches courses on the Arab-Israeli conflict as represented in literature. He served for three years in the Israeli army in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including some time in Lebanon and can address the developing situation in Syria from an Israeli perspective. He is […]

Professor Amanullah De Sondy earned his Ph.D. in theology and religious studies at the University of Glasgow (Scotland), with a focus on Islamic Studies. Aman has taught Islamic Studies at the University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde and the University of Stirling in Scotland and at Ithaca College, New York in the USA before joining […]

A graduate of the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, West Africa, Professor Abaka earned his M.A. degree (European History) at the University of Guelph in Canada and a Ph.D in African History at York.

Asian Politics (China, Japan, Taiwan) and the UN Security Council

Ecological anthropology, climate and society interaction, environmental policy are Dr. Broad’s areas of research.

Terri A. Scandura, Ph.D., is a professor of Management at the University of Miami School of Business Administration and also serves as the dean of Graduate Education at the University of Miami. Her specialty areas include organizational behavior and leadership and motivation. Her research focuses on work relationships—enhancing personal and organizational performance, including supervisor-subordinate relationships, mentoring, […]

Dr. Oza’s areas of expertise include bargaining and negotiations, consumer behavior, judgment and decision-making and competitive marketing strategy.

Dr. Townsend’s areas of expertise include aesthetics and product design, consumer decision-making and choice.

Dr. Kumar’s areas of expertise include behavioral finance (how people invest and why), corporate finance and empirical asset pricing.

Dr. Emery’s areas of expertise include the stock market, mergers  and acquisitions, government finance, currencies, corporate finance and consumer finance. Chair, Department of Finance School of Business Administration Office: 305-284-4430 [email protected] Department Bio/CV

Dr. Heuson’s areas of expertise include real estate and international finance.  She frequently comments on the state of real estate in South Florida and other markets across the country.

Dr. Johnson’s areas of expertise include international market entry and pricing strategy.

Dr. Luo’s areas of expertise include outsourcing, international business, emerging economies, management strategy and management transition.

Dr. Laran’s areas of expertise include shopping behavior, self-control and indulgenc, retail and marketing strategy and decision process/consumer choice.

Cava’s areas of expertise include business ethics; business law; employment issues; healthcare administration; HIPAA; Internet’s effects on all of the above.

Dr. Abril’s areas of expertise include privacy law, intellectual property, securities fraud and international business law.

Dr. Olazabal’s areas of expertise include corporate intent and fraud, federal securities law and corporate governance.

Dr. Makri’s areas of expertise include compensation, boards, family business and business policy and strategy.

Parasuraman’s areas of expertise include customer service and national and international service quality.

Tsiros’ areas of expertise include customer satisfaction and regret; stages of consumer choice and subsequent behavior; retail strategy and tactics; priming or planting stimuli to impact buyer behavior; psychological aspects of marketing.

Dr. Colwell’s area of expertise is entrepreneurship.

Dr. Ganitsky’s areas of expertise include strategic planning, global startups and entrepreneurship, international business, and  Latin American business.

Dr. Junkunc’s areas of expertise include entrepreneurship and technology management.

Leone’s areas of expertise include management and financial accounting, accounting irregularities and earnings.

Dr. Cooper’s areas of expertise include reputation management, image/trust repair, organizational behavior and leadership.

Dr. Schriesheim’s areas of expertise include consumer trust/re-establishing trust.

A professor of geography and regional studies in the College of Arts and Sciences,  Dr. Sheskin specializes in the geopolitics of the Middle Eastern region. He also serves as director of the Jewish Demography Project at the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies. Office: (305) 284-6693 Home: (954) 435-7070 Cell: (954) 558-2933 […]

Dr. Susan Kaufman Purcell is the Director of the Center for Hemispheric Policy at the University of Miami. Dr. Purcell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Women’s Forum. She has been an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Visiting Fellow at the Overseas Development Council, and […]

Cuban migration. Hispanic populations in the U.S. World population problems, migration, ethnicity, housing segregation and discrimination, and poverty. Immigration Policy and Hispanic Voters

Professor, Department of Religious Studies College of Arts and Sciences Dr. Maldonado is an expert on Catholicism, Cuban-American and Cuban religion, Afro-Cuban culture and religion, and more broadly Latino/a, Black, Latin American religion, and feminism. Watch Dr. Maldonado and UM Student Government President Nawara Alawa speak to Channel 7′s Belkys Nery about what it was like to […]

Dr. Green can talk about the Jewish population of Cuba and the Cuban Jewish population in the United States, especially in South Florida. Department Bio / CV

Dr. Ullmann’s areas of expertise include health care management; health care economics; medical ethics; human resources management and the economic impacts of the Affordable Care Act. Department Bio/CV  Dr. Ullmann is also available to comment on the following topics: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA/Obamacare) PPACA and Implications for Healthcare Providers Medical Ethics Healthcare […]

An expert on biomedical and other ethical issues, Kenneth W. Goodman is founder and director of the University of Miami Bioethics Program and its Pan American Bioethics Initiative and co-director of the university’s Ethics Programs, including its Business Ethics Program. Dr. Goodman is also a Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami with appointments in […]

Can speak to genomics and broad clinical  research areas.

Can speak to all clinical topics, vaccines,  prevalence and early signs of autism.

Can speak to medications and comorbidity.

Can speak to all clinical topics and comorbidity.

Can speak to infant sibling research and early signs of autism.

Can speak to high functioning autism research.

Dr. Ehrenreich-May is an expert on anxiety and stress in children, including coping after trauma.  She researches novel treatment approaches for anxiety disorders and related conditions in youth, etiology of child anxiety, clinician training and dissemination of evidence based treatments for children and adolescents. Department of Psychology College of Arts and Sciences [email protected] Office: 305-284-9852 Department […]

Can speak about all clinical topics and educational issues related to autism.

Dr. Solo-Gabriele is the associate dean for research at the College of Engineering. She has extensive experience in an array of areas, including microbes in ocean water and beach sand, water flows within the Everglades watershed, and metals in pressure treated wood. She is an expert on the infrastructure of Cuba, specifically water and wastewater systems. She […]

Department of Psychology College of Arts and Sciences Director of Clinical Training at the University of Miami. Dr. La Greca focuses on children’s reactions to trauma (especially natural disasters), adolescent peer relations (including peer victimization) and on anxiety and coping in children and adolescents. Dr. La Greca’s research team documented the effects of post-traumatic stress […]

Eugene Provenzo, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Education. Dr. Provenzo authored Hurricane Andrew, The Public Schools, and Rebuilding of Community (State University of New York Press), an ethnographic study of the recovery of three schools after Hurricane Andrew, and In the Eye of Hurricane Andrew (University Press of Florida) an oral history […]

In 2007, he and his team designed and deployed a first-of-its-kind hurricane buoy in “Hurricane Alley,” and participated in a number of hurricane studies. Dr. Drennan is available to discuss air-sea interaction, boundary layers, surface gravity waves and turbulence.

He studies wave-current interactions, and shelf and estuary dynamics using primarily radar remote sensing techniques. Dr. Haus’ hurricane research involves studies of the air-sea coupling in very high winds. In particular using the Rosenstiel School’s Air-Sea Interaction Saltwater Tank (ASIST), to investigate the effects of wave breaking and spray on the air-sea interface. This work will be greatly expanded in the surge-structure atmosphere interaction facility […]

Dr. Letson studies the economics of extreme weather and climate variations, to effect thoughtful resource management and policy.  He has testified before the Florida legislature on windstorm insurance, as a Council of Economic Advisors member of Florida TaxWatch.

He has investigated issues related to natural hazards and the built environment since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.  He produced Hurricane Hazard Mitigation, edited with Beth Dunlop, in which he outlines a “Five-Point Disaster Plan” and participated in the Mississippi Renewal Forum charrette after Hurricane Katrina. He is available to discuss how buildings, bridges, and other […]

Helena Solo-Gabriele,  Ph.D, P.E., professor of Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering. Dr. Gabriele’s research relates to water flows within the Everglades watershed. This research is tied to public health and restoration given that the Everglades serves as the ultimate source of drinking water for large urban communities. Her most recent research project involves documenting the […]

Larry Brand, Ph.D.,  professor of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Dr. Brand studies the interaction of ecological and evolutionary processes in marine phytoplankton, how fast and to what extent phytoplankton populations and species are able to adapt to their local environments. Over a hundred species isolated from different areas […]

Dr. Hood’s research interests include chemical processes occurring in coastal sediments and development of new methods in electron microscopy. Her research in the last decade has focused on deciphering human impacts in coastal environments using sediment records. Dr. Hood’s particular areas of study have included the Everglades/Florida Bay ecosystem and the Mississippi River outflow region […]

Dr. Sharma’s areas of expertise include marketing trends, marketing strategy and productivity, firm-level value creation and management and one-to-one marketing strategies. He is also an expert on the economic impact to communities of mega-events such as the Super Bowl, the Olympics and political conventions. He received a Bachelor of Engineering from Ragastan University, an M.B.A. […]

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