SCORE Faculty - FIU's Minority Opportunities in Research

MBRS SCORE Advisory Committee

The advisory committee assists and advises the MBRS SCORE Director on matters of Program and University policy and maintaining an innovative strong program. Among information they receive for review are annual reports from the Director and the program evaluator. The members of this committee are as follows:

FIU Vice President for Research & Graduate Study, Dr. Thomas Breslin

FIU Dean of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Arthur Herriott.

FIU Assistant Controller for Contracts & Grants, Mr. Sean St. Louis

SCORE Sub-Project P.I., Dr. Sylvia Smith

Research Faculty	Department	Research Interest
Richard A. Bone -- Professor	Physics	Reflectance method for measuring macular pigment
Dorothy Brooten -- Professor	School of Nursing	High Risk Pregnancy, Health Problems, APN Interventions
Marie-Luise Friedemann -- Professor	School of Nursing	Culture, Family Patterns and Caregiver Resource Use
Rene J. Herrera -- Associate Professor	Biological Sciences	Expression and function of U1 and U2 RNA Isoforms during development
Fenfei Leng -- Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Mechanisms of Transcription-Coupled DNA Supercoiling
Laurie Richardson -- Associate Professor	Biological Sciences	Microbial Community Organization and Development of a Pathogenic Consortium
Sylvia L. Smith -- Professor	Biological Sciences	Shark Complement Proteins: Predictive Molecular Analysis
Philip K. Stoddard -- Associate Professor	Biological Sciences	Social Regulation of Circadian Output Systems
Stanislaw Wnuk -- Associate Professor	Chemistry	Nucleoside-based enzyme inhibitors. Novel stannyl-,silyl-,and germyldesulfonylation reactions