Faculty Achievements
HBU faculty are leaders in their classrooms, but they are also researchers, presenters, and consultants in both academic and industry. We are proud to share their accomplishments outside the classroom.*
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Drs. Hannah Wingate and Nicole Pinaire, assistant professors in biology, along with three HBU students, Vinh Lu, Christopher Flores, and Heather Wilbourn, attended the TriBeta South Central Regional Biological Science Conference held at the University of Oklahoma Biological Field Station to represent the HBU Iota Omicron Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society chapter. Heather Wilbourn orally presented her Biology Honors research, "Influence of Bacteria and Dissolved Organic Carbon on Algal Growth."
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Dr. Richard Fiese was invited to present "Communicating from the podium during the instrumental rehearsal" at the University of Missouri-St. Louis on May 22, 2012.
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The Houston Baptist University School of Nursing and Allied Health is pleased to announce that Sharon Luksetich, Assistant Professor in Nursing, has earned the designation Certified Nurse Educator (CNE), after meeting strict eligibility criteria and successfully completing a rigorous certification examination developed and administered by the National League for Nursing (NLN)
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Dr. Eric Van Caemelbecke, associate professor in chemistry, recently coauthored a paper, "Electrosynthesis of Rh2(dpf)4(R) where dpf = N, N'-diphenylformamidine anion and R = CH3, C2H5, C3H7, C4H9 and C5H11", Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 2486-2490.
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Dr. Eric Van Caemelbecke, associate professor in chemistry and chemistry, Welch Scholar students, Kevin Ramirez and Franklin Leal, presented a poster, " Reactivity of Ru2(L)4Cl with Small Anions where L = anilinopyridinate (ap) or 2-fluoroanilinopyridinate (Fap) Anionic Bridging Ligand" at the 67th Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Austin (November 9-12, 2011). Franklin and Kevin received the Best Undergraduate Poster Award in Inorganic Chemistry.
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Dr. Curtis Henderson, associate professor in biology, is a coauthor of a recent research paper, “A virion-associated protein kinase induces apoptosis." Chitnis NS, Paul ER, Lawrence PK, Henderson CW, Ganapathy S, Taylor PV, Virdi KS, D'Costa SM, May AR, Bilimoria SL.
J Virol. 2011 Dec;85(24):13144-52.
*Note: All academic titles are correct for the time period noted.