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DR. KATHRYN HALEY

WISE Faculty Director

Kate is an assistant professor in the department of Biomedical Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on pathogen host interactions. Currently her research aims at understanding how bacteria gain access to nutrient metals during infections and how bacterial metal homeostasis drives disease progression.

DR. KRISTIN RENKEMA

WISE Faculty Fellow

DR. NATALIE LAUDICINA

WISE Faculty Fellow

My research focuses on how bony morphology can inform us about behavior. Using 3D animation modeling, I reconstruct birth mechanisms in human, fossil, and extant primate species in order to better understand how and why human childbirth can be difficult.

DR. LAURA KAPITULA

WISE Faculty Fellow

Laura currently serves as an associate professor of Statistics at Grand Valley State University. She earned a PhD in Statistics and a MS in Cognitive Psychology from the University of New Mexico. Her focus as an educator is the effective teaching of statistics with a focus on statistical computing and modeling.  Her research interests include education statistics and evaluation, hierarchical modeling and longitudinal data analysis, influence diagnostics, epidemiology and statistical graphics. She is a highly experienced applied statistician and consultant who has had the opportunity to work collaboratively in many diverse content areas including: education, medicine, transportation research, human computer interaction, epidemiology and psychology.