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Director Center of Resiliency

Email: lhaselbach@lamar.edu

Research Interests:

• Low impact development,
• Especially pervious concrete,
• Flood communication and resiliency,
• Green engineering and environmental life cycle assessment.

Department: Social Work

Email: vgummelt@lamar.edu 

Associate Professor, Director of Social Work Program

Research interests:

• Children and violence
• Mental health issues for athletes
• Vulnerable populations
• Sexual abuse and sexual assault
• Women's issues

Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Email: cjeffryes@lamar.edu 

Associate Professor

Research interests: 

• Metallic nanoparticles from phototrophic cell culture
• Innovative bioprocesses
• Biogeneic nanomaterials
• Production of pigments and antioxidants
• Microwave assisted "Green Synthesis" Processes

Department: Center for Resiliency

Email: teressa.robertson@lamar.edu 

(409) 880-7236

Assistant Director - Engagement

Tom Kalb

Department: Center for Midstream Management, Director

Email: thomas.kalb@lamar.edu

University of Texas Austin | Texas Advanced Computing Center | Jackson School of Geosciences

Email: spierce@gacc.utexas.edu 

Research Scientist 

Research interests: 

• Integrated Water Resources Management
• Decision Support Systems
• Sustainability Science
• Energy-Water
• Groundwater Management
• Participatory Modeling

Department: Biology

Email: mpyne@lamar.edu 

Associate Professor

Research interests: Understanding the relationship between the distribution of aquatic organisms and the structure, climate, and hydrology of freshwater aquatic systems. 

Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Email: tselvaratnam@lamar.edu 

Assistant Professor

Research interests: Achieving bioremediation of municipal/ industrial wastewaters using an algal-based system

Department: Finance

Email: slaydonjl@lamar.edu

Professor and Director, New Programs Initiatives 

Research interests: 

• Resiliency after natural disasters
• Regional economic development
• Real estate.

Department: Nutrition, Hospitality & Human Services

Email: jekillough@lamar.edu

Department Chair

Research interests:

• Community-based participatory research to food disparities and insecurity
• Quality improvement processes in nutrition and dietetics practice

Department: IT Operations

Email: stewarts@lamar.edu 

Executive Director, IT Operations

Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering

Email: btokgoz@lamar.edu 

Associate Professor

Research interests: 

• Resilience Engineering
• Risk Analysis
• Systems Engineering
• Complex Systems

Department: Political Science

Email: bwilliams9@lamar.edu 

Assistant Professor and Director, Master of Public Administration | Director, Center for Public Policy Study 

Research interests: 

Understanding the knowledge gap between practice and research for Emergency Management; specifically, the implications of social vulnerability to community resilience through social, political, and economic policy.

Department: Center for Resiliency

Email: mguidry11@lamar.edu 

Assistant Director - Resarch and Data Mangement

Instructor: Port Safety, Security, and Resiliency Planning

Department: Center for Advances in Port Management (CAPM)

Email: rdubois@lamar.edu

Executive Director

Speech and Hearing Services

Email: raul.prezas@lamar.edu 

Associate Professor