IPFW Faculty Reach Beyond
A great education depends on great educators, and IPFW is fortunate to have truly extraordinary faculty. These are not just good teachers. These are men and women who have earned the highest degree in their field and still strive to accomplish more.
These are doers, dreamers, skeptics, achievers, and inventors. These are scholars who celebrate the question. Carve new paths in research. Create new knowledge. Alter the debate. Give back to the community. Challenge their students. Change lives. Reach beyond. Yes, these are the faculty of IPFW.
We’re proud to feature six outstanding IPFW faculty members, from among the many. Through their pioneering work, these brilliant men and women are making the world a better place — for students, for scholars, for all of us.
Our faculty are...
- Adam N. Coffman, Ph.D. Mathematics “We’re interested in answering unsolved problems and pushing back the boundaries of what we don’t know.”
- James M. Lutz, Ph.D. Political Science “My research has a lot to do with the way we look at terrorism — not just the Middle East, not just Islam, not just 9/11. All of those are part of a broader context.”
- Elizabeth A. Thompson, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering “With the research I’m doing with functional MRI, I’m developing a computer program that I hope will better map the regions of the brain.”
- Audrey A. Ushenko, Ph.D. Fine Arts “Painting is communication.”
- Robert J. Visalli, Ph.D. Biology “My favorite part is when a student comes to my office with a piece of data in their hands, and they are the only person in the world with that piece of information at that time. They’re just incredibly excited over the discovery of something new.”
- Stephen J. Ziegler, Ph.D. Public and Environmental Affairs “Faculty research is what keeps IPFW on the cutting edge. We bring that research into the classroom, which makes topics recent and applicable.”