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Johnson’s research interests include marriage and family functioning. He can discuss an array of issues related to relationships. Johnson’s most recent research investigated the success rate of government-funded education programs designed to promote healthy marriages, among couples in this same category. He is the author of “Great Myths of Intimate Relationships: Dating, Sex, and Marriage” and has provided discussions on the developmental course of marital distress and dissolution, particularly among young couples and people of color.

Office Phone : 607-777-2370

Email : mjohnson@binghamton.edu

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Begdache’s research interests include nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics, neurodegeneration, nutrition and mental distress, and microbiota. She teaches several courses, including Human Nutrition and Metabolism, Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology, Principles of Cell Biology, Molecular Genetics, and Pathophysiology of Nutrition-Related Diseases. Begdache was featured by publications such as Bustle and The New York Post for her researching showing a connection between food and mood, and she wrote a piece for The Conversation on the hefty price of study drug misues on college campuses.

Office Phone : 607-777-5299

Email : lina@binghamton.edu

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Donald Nieman is Binghamton University’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and also Professor of History. His research focuses on law, race, and civil rights in U.S. history, emphasizing the role that African Americans have played in using law and the Constitution to expand the nation’s understanding of citizenship, rights, politics, and the Constitution.

Office Phone : 607-777-2141

Email : dnieman@binghamton.edu

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Mattson’s research interests include improving the conceptualization and assessment of satisfaction in relationships and exploring the causes and consequences of functional versus dysfunctional relationship communication, including social support and intimate partner violence, respectively. His present focus is on how the effects of genetic, neuroendocrinological and early environmental factors, moderate the role of partner social support in buffering the negative impact of stress on health.

Office Phone : 607-777-4251

Email : rmattson@binghamton.edu

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Larémont is a Carnegie Corporation Scholar on Islam, and a leading expert on political Islam, Islamic law, conflict resolution, democratization, and civil/military relations. His work focuses on North Africa and the Sahel.

Office Phone : 607-777-4809

Email : laremont@binghamton.edu

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Tucker is the author of five books and has taught courses on folklore, children’s folklore, folklore of the supernatural, folklore and the mass media, and Native American folklore and literature. She is internationally known as an expert in children’s and adolescents’ folklore.

Office Phone : 607-777-2608

Email : ltucker@binghamton.edu

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Lipo’s research interests include studying the cultural change of human populations. Lipo uses evolutionary theory as a means of developing methods for studying cultural transmission and the process of natural selection, acting on cultural systems. His work has explored community patterning among prehistoric potters of the Mississippi Valley, patterns of inheritance among stone tools producers in North America and the conditions that led the populations of Easter Island (Rapa Nui, Chili) to construct their famous monumental statues. In addition to the study of artifact variability and geochronology, Lipo has interests in remote sensing, as a means of efficiently and non-destructively studying the archaeological record. This work includes the use of magnetometry, resistivity, conductivity, thermal imagery, photogrammetry, LiDAR and ground penetrating radar.

Office Phone : 607-777-4306

Email : clipo@binghamton.edu

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William Eggleston is originally from Binghamton, N.Y. and joins Binghamton University as a clinical assistant professor. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Wilkes University and completed a fellowship in clinical toxicology and emergency medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University and with the Upstate New York Poison Center in Syracuse, N.Y. He comes to Binghamton from SUNY Upstate Medical University, where he served as an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and the Upstate New York Poison Center, where he worked as a clinical toxicologist. Eggleston is the director of the Opioid Research Center for Central New York (ORCC-NY), a multidisciplinary team of scientists, healthcare providers and community partners working to develop innovative ideas and strategies for treating and preventing the harms of opioid use disorder. Additionally, he is a member of the executive board of the New York State chapter of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP).

Office Phone : 607-777-5848

Email : wegglest@binghamton.edu

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Garruto’s research interests include natural experimental models of disease, using both field and laboratory approaches. His cross-disciplinary research and interests include studies of neurodegenerative disorders including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, food chain disorders, health transition studies, obesity and bionutrition, malaria, Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, and prion diseases, especially chronic wasting disease.

Office Phone : 607-777-6562

Email : rgarruto@binghamton.edu

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Bailey’s research interests include African-American history; African and African Diaspora studies; history and memory; oral history; and civil rights. She writes and speaks about a variety of topics related to these research areas, including race, slavery, immigration, refugees, diasporas, faith and history and human rights. In her work, Bailey combines the elements of travel, adventure, history and an understanding of contemporary issues with an accessible style. Her works range from adult non-fiction to children’s historical fiction, and includes African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame (Beacon Press, 2005) and You Can Make A Difference: The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. (Bantam/Doubleday/Dell). Her newest book, The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History, was published by Cambridge University Press in October 2017 and has received very wide coverage.

Mobile No : 607-768-4633

Email : abailey@binghamton.edu