MEET THE FIRE TEAM
Meet the team of dedicated faculty and staff who wake each day dedicated to the program's mission.
FIRE Faculty Leaders
Dr. Jaclyn Bruner
Assistant Clinical Professor
Visualizing Social Justice
Dr. Cherisse Hall
Assistant Clinical Professor
Bacterial Pathogenesis
Dr. Marissa Hartwig
Assistant Clinical Professor
Human Learning, Memory & Cognition
Dr. Ben Huffman
Assistant Clinical Professor
Global Development & Design
Dr. Shabnam Jabeen
Associate Clinical Professor
Quantum Machine Learning
Dr. Lena Johnson
Assistant Clinical Professor
BioInspired Robotics
Dr. Randall Kania
Assistant Clinical Professor
Design Engineering
Dr. Patrick McGurrin
Assistant Clinical Professor
Addiction Science
Dr. Danielle Niu
Assistant Clinical Professor
Project Greenhouse
Dr. Jessica O'Hara
Assistant Clinical Professor
Host-Pathogen Interactions
Dr. Thanicha Ruangmas
Assistant Clinical Professor
Sustainability Analytics
Dr. Catherine Spirito
Associate Clinical Prof / Assistant Director
Molecular Diagnostics
Dr. Sara Strey
Assistant Clinical Professor
Climate Computing
Dr. Halli Weiner
Assistant Clinical Professor
Fertility Science
Dr. Robert Young
Assistant Clinical Professor
Genome Computing
Dr. Quira Zeidan
Assistant Clinical Professor
CellEx
Dr. Carinna Ferguson
Assistant Clinical Prof / Assistant Director
TBA
Leadership & Administration
Dr. Patrick/Patricia Killion
Director of The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR)
Director of The First-Year Innovation & Research Experience (FIRE)
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Assistant Program Director
Dr. Carol Vieira
Assistant Program Director
Dr. Catherine Spirito
Associate Clinical Professor
Assistant Director
Dr. Carinna Ferguson
Assistant Clinical Professor
Assistant Director
(August 2023)