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Said Bahi
Rank: Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Degrees: PhD
Phone: 435-586-7907
Fax: 435-865-8666
Email: bahi@suu.edu
Website: http://www.suu.edu/faculty/bahi/

Categories: Middle East,   Math,  

Expertise: Middle East issues, especially Moroccan.

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Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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Bruce O.  Barker
Rank: Professor of Secondary Education
Degrees: Ed.D.
Phone: 435-586-7800
Fax: 435-865-8046
Email: barker@suu.edu
Website: http://www.suu.edu/faculty/barker/

Categories: Education,   Distance Learning,   Rural Education

Expertise: Distance learning in K-12 schools; integrating learning technologies into teacher preparation programs; rural education; National Board Professional Teaching Standards

Qualifications: Authored more than 100 articles in professional education journals focusing on rural education issues, teacher education, and the improvement of teaching and learning using technology in school settings; conducted technology-based school improvement evaluation studies in 11 states; principle investigator in external grants totaling more than $3 million; travel study of educational systems in Japan and the People’s Republic of China; served several years as Dean of SUU's College of Education before taking a year's sabbatical in 2006.

Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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Steve T. Barney
Rank: Assistant Professor of Psychology
Degrees: Ph.D.
Phone: 435-586-7955
Fax: 435-865-8289
Email: barney@suu.edu
Website: http://www.suu.edu/faculty/barney/

Categories: Psychology,   Undergraduate Research,  

Expertise: Psychological Assessment/Psychometrics Pedagogy/Undergraduate Psychology Training Models Undergraduate Research, Program Evaluation/Community Needs Assessment Group Psychotherapy, Applied Sport Psychology

Qualifications: Articles and presentations, publications and presentations, psychologist for Southwest Center (community mental health center)

Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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Matt  Barton
Rank: Assistant Professor of Communication
Degrees: B.S., M.A., PhD
Phone: (435) 586-7970
Fax: (435) 865-8352
Email: bartonm@suu.edu
Website: http://www.suu.edu/faculty/bartonm/

Categories: Political Communication,   Conflict Resolution,   Rhetoric

Expertise: Rhetoric, Communication and Culture, conflict management

Qualifications: Author of three publications and 13 conference papers. From 2002-2003, served as secretary for the Western States Communication Association – Rhetoric & Public Address Division.

Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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Mark Barton
Rank: Vice President of University Advancement and Regio
Degrees: B.S., M.Ed
Phone: 435-586-7778
Fax: 435-865-8391
Email: barton@suu.edu
Website:

Categories: Management Philosophy,   Motivational Speaking,  

Expertise: University interaction with rural communities, enrollment services including admissions, registration, school relations and housing. Motivational speaking on love, managment by caring and others, including "The Bottom Line is a Four-Letter Word."

Qualifications: Oversees the departments of alumni relations, development and regional services, the latter of which interfaces specifically with the rural communities of southern Utah. In the past, has been directly involved with the recruitment of students since he began at SUU; Helped to more than triple enrollment during this time.

Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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DEl Beatty
Rank: Director
Degrees: M.Ed.
Phone: 435-865-8557
Fax: 435-865-8542
Email: beatty@suu.edu
Website:

Categories: Music,   Motivational Speaking,   Public Speaking

Expertise: college student orientation; character dance; motivation and emotion; pop culture; student learning (millenial generation); student success in relation to co-curricular involvement

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Available For: interviews, speaking,

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Terry Blodgett
Rank: Professor of German
Degrees: PhD
Phone: 435-586-7959
Fax: 435-865-8169
Email: blodgett@suu.edu
Website: http://www.suu.edu/faculty/blodgett/

Categories: German,   Linguistics,  

Expertise: Historical linguistics, ancient history, migration of people, especially in the ancient world, Ten Lost Tribes — from the Bible

Qualifications: Fullbright scholar in 1983 to West Germany; 1998 Section Chair, Symposium for Judaic Studies, University of Denver: Discussion One: “A Comparison of Dialects in Ancient Israel,” Discussion Two: “Judaic Influence on World Languages since the Babylonian Captivity;” 1999 Featured Speaker at the Shenandoah Valley Language and Linguistics Conference, Southern Virginia College, “The Four Sound Shifts of the Four Israelite Migrations;” 2001 Keynote Speaker, NYC-Junto, An Academy for the Exchange of Scholarly Ideas,“Language Says It All: The Fine Art of Detecting Cultural and Linguistic Influences;” 2001 Lecture Tour of New Zealand and Australia, Keynote Speaker, in Auckland, NZ, and Sydney, and Brisbane, Australia (three presentations in three cities) Presentation One: “Language Says It All”: A Linguistic look at the Historical World Presentation Two: “A Hebrew Origin for the Central World Mythologies—A Linguistic Study Presentation Three: “A Look at Heraldry as a Means of Identifying Ancient Israelites”

Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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Robin Boneck
Rank: Assistant Professor
Degrees: LL.M., J.D.
Phone: 435-586-7773
Fax: 435-586-5493
Email: boneck@suu.edu
Website: http://www.suu.edu/faculty/boneck/

Categories: Taxation,    

Expertise: taxation

Qualifications: earned degrees in taxation and law; Arizona Bar Association, Nevada Bar Association, Texas Bar Association; has worked as a CPA, attorney and bank executive

Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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Curtis  Bostick
Rank: Associate Professor of History
Degrees: Ph.D
Phone: 435-865-8154
Fax: 435-865-8193
Email: bostick@suu.edu
Website: http://www.suu.edu/faculty/bostick/

Categories: History,   Medieval Studies,  

Expertise: Medieval and Reformation England

Qualifications: Book: The Anti-Christ and the Lollards: Apocalypticism in the late medieval and reformation England

Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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Helen C. Boswell
Rank: Assistant Professor of Biology
Degrees: B.A., PhD
Phone: 435-865-8163
Fax: 435-865-8605
Email: Chuang@suu.edu
Website: http://www.suu.edu/faculty/boswell

Categories: Evolution,   Undergraduate Research,   Genetics

Expertise: Genetics, Evolution, Vertebrates, Undergraduate Research, Biotechnology, Birds

Qualifications: Professor of the Year Award from students in 2004; 2003 Southern Utah University Distinguished Educator; Outstanding Scholar Award from peers in 2002; Alpha Epsilon Delta Faculty Advisor; Pre-Health Advisory Committee, Chairperson; Editor for Southwest Scholar Journal; Author of a selection of refereed publications and presentations and contributions to professional meetings.

Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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Mikhail Bounieav
Rank: Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the College o
Degrees: M.S., PhD
Phone: 435-865-8192
Fax: 435-865-8666
Email: bouniaev@suu.edu
Website: http://www.suu.edu/faculty/bouniaev/

Categories: Math,   Neutral Networks,   Russian

Expertise: Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Neural Networks, Russian.

Qualifications: Chair of Mathematics at SUU; Dean, School of Mathematics, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia; Five books and more than 50 publications.

Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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James E.  Bowns
Rank: Professor of Forestry/Range Management
Degrees: B.S., M.S., PhD
Phone: (435) 586-7922
Fax: 435-865-8605
Email: bowns_je@suu.edu
Website: http://www.suu.edu/faculty/bowns_je/

Categories: Ecology,   Range Management and Range Ecology,   Plants

Expertise: Many aspects of Range Management and Range Ecology, including plant ID, weeds, poisonous plants, endangered species, grazing systems, some aspects of forestry and wildlife ecology, land surveys and histories, conflict resolution, predator control, public land issues.

Qualifications: Numerous peer reviewed and popular publications; presentations at campus, local, state, and national levels, testified before the US Congress and Senate, EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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Arlene Braithwaite
Rank: Associate Professor of Art
Degrees: M. Ed
Phone: 586-5425
Fax: 586-5427
Email: braithwaite@suu.edu
Website: http://www.suu.edu/faculty/braithwaite/

Categories: Plein Air Painting,   Art,  

Expertise: Expert demonstrator Working on location outdoors

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Available For: speaking,

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John  Branin
Rank: Orientation Coordinator/Academic Advisor
Degrees: A.S., B.F.A., M.A.
Phone: 435-586-5419
Fax: 435-586-1963
Email: branin@suu.edu
Website: http://www.suu.edu/faculty/branin/

Categories: College Student Orientation,   Student Success,   Film History

Expertise: Transitional services for freshman students, student development, orientation, student success strategies, service learning, theatre and cinematic arts: primarily pre- and post war realism, underground music as a self-identified pop counter-culture.

Qualifications: Numerous publications on student orientation and transition to higher education

Available For: interviews, speaking,

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Eric  Brown
Rank: Assistant Professor of Art
Degrees: B.A., M.F.A.
Phone: 865-8454
Fax: http://www.suu.edu/faculty/brown_e/
Email: brown_e@suu.edu
Website: http://www.suu.edu/pva/art/Brown.html

Categories: Art,   Art History,   Drawing

Expertise: Drawing, art history

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Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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John  Bryner
Rank: Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology
Degrees: BA, MLS
Phone: 435-865-8081
Fax: 435-865-8046
Email: bryner@suu.edu
Website:

Categories: Library School Media,    

Expertise:

Qualifications: Book: Essential Reference Services for Today's School Media Specialists

Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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Amazon Books
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Bill Byrnes
Rank: Dean of the College of Performing and Visual Arts
Degrees: Master of Fine Arts
Phone: 865-8554
Fax: 865-8580
Email: byrnes@suu.edu
Website:

Categories: Marketing,   Management,   Theatre

Expertise:

Qualifications: More than 30 years experience producing theatre and opera productions regionally and on university campuses. More than 15 years experience in the field of management application to arts and not-for-profit organizations. Former president of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, the American Association for Design, Production and Technology Professionals. Author of Management and the Arts, a textbook for arts administration. Supervised and implemented numerous marketing plans for arts organisation over last 20 years and taught marketing and fundraising principles and practices at the graduate level for more than 8 years.

Available For: interviews, speaking, consulting

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