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Carol A. Burdsal
Cell and Molecular Biology Department
Dr. Carol A. Burdsal is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology at Tulane University. She was awarded her Ph. D. at Duke University in 1990 and performed postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco prior to joining the Tulane faculty in 1995. The focus of Dr. Burdsal's research program is Developmental Biology and her lab investigates issues of pattern formation in vertebrates. At Tulane University, Dr. Burdsal teaches Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, and The Molecular Biology of Cancer (a course which incorporates Service Learning).

Teri C. Davis
Education Department
Teri C. Davis is Coordinator of Teacher Certification. She comes to Tulane University from Southwestern College in Kansas where she was Assistant Professor of Education and Director of the Early Childhood Education Program. Her doctorate (currently abd) is from Kansas State University. Her dissertation is entitled, "An Examination of Stakeholders' Perceptions of the Role of Principals in Public Schools with Early Childhood Programs." She has been a public school teacher and principal in Texas and holds certifications for music, early childhood, elementary, principal, and superintendent. She currently teaches Introduction to Education (EDUC 200) and Secondary Methods (EDUC 608). Believing that we should promote the profession of education as among the most important professions, she sees teacher preparation at Tulane as an opportunity to make a difference in public schools throughout the country.

Joy V. Fuqua
Communications Department
Joy V. Fuqua is an assistant professor in the Department of Communications. Professor Fuqua received her doctorate in Cultural and Critical Studies from the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on television and popular culture with a particular interest in health consumer cultures. She teaches courses on media representation of HIV/AIDS, youth culture, television history and analysis, cultural studies, and feminist media criticism and theory. She is also the director of the cultural studies minor. Her current book manuscript, Healthy TV: From Television to Telemedicine, 1950-2000, examines the history of television in relation to the popularization of medical knowledge and expertise. She has published articles on the installation of television into hospitals, prescription drug advertising, and the representation of gender and science in children's television animation.

Harry Howard
Spanish and Portuguese Department
Dr. Harry Howard received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Cornell University in 1993, under the supervision of Margarita Suner. He taught at Rutgers for three years and is currently and Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University. He teaches syntax and semantics in the Linguistics program, and Spanish Phonetics/Phonology, Hispanic Bilingualism, and Iberoamerican Dialectology in his own department. He also participates in the Cognitive Science program and the Neuroscience program. His most recent publications are "Negentropic causation vs. entropic inchoation" in Linguagem e Cognicao edited by Augusto Soares da Silva, and "Age/Gender morphemes inherit the biases of their underlying dimensions" in Language and Ideology. Vol. 1: Theoretical and cognitive approaches, edited by René Dirven, Bruce Hawkins, and Esra Sandikcioglu. He is finishing revisions on a monograph with the working title of Connectionist Semantics, to be published by Elsevier Scientific. He is also finishing a project funded by the Louisiana Board of Regents on teaching Spanish pronunciation by the use of streaming video over the internet.

Adele Myers
Theatre and Dance Department
Adele Myers earned her BA in dance from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA in dance from Florida State University. While attending FSU, Adele received two University Fellowships and the Artist Award from the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. She was a professional dancer in New York for six years as a member of the Joy Kellman Dance Company. Adele was also a guest artist with several companies including Momix, Dendy Dance, and the Motion Pictures Dance Company. She has served as a choreographic/rehearsal assistant for Jawole Zollar, Artistic Director of the Urban Bush Women on many occasions including a residency with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre. She has led several choreographic residencies/workshops. Adele's choreography has been presented in England, New York, and throughout the southeast. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at Newcomb College in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Tulane University.

Beverly Trask
Theatre and Dance Department