Faculty Profiles

  • October 27, 2023

    PNW Professor Returns from Exciting and Educational Fulbright Program in Finland

    Purdue University Northwest faculty member, Maureen Mascha, associate professor of Accounting in the College of Business, recently returned from an 11-month Fulbright program at the University of Vaasa in Finland.

  • March 14, 2023

    PNW faculty member publishes book on women ska musicians

    Heather Augustyn, continuing lecturer and Westville Writing Center Coordinator, recently released her latest book, Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond, which details women ska musicians that performed in bands during the 1970s and 1980s.

  • May 5, 2022

    Amanda Zelechoski is helping to build capacity and synergy in mental health training at PNW

    Psychology professor Amanda Zelechoski’s came to PNW’s Department of Psychology in fall 2021 to fulfill a long-term goal: putting a dent in the concerning shortage of mental health assessment resources and training opportunities in Northwest Indiana.

  • January 17, 2020

    Mentoring Future Engineers

    Professor Khair Al Shamaileh is passionate about applying engineering concepts to create solutions to the most challenging projects that have a direct impact on humanity.

  • December 17, 2019

    Generating Fuel from the Sun

    Dr. Nesrin Ozalp specializes in the area of designing novel solar reactors for emission-free generation of fuels.

  • November 25, 2019

    Concrete and Steel

    Studying Self-Healing Concrete

  • November 5, 2019

    Analyzing the Story of Earth

    Professor Hystad’s research focuses on solving statistical problems in the new and emerging fields of mineral evolution and mineral ecology.

  • January 24, 2019

    Untangling the Mammal Family Tree

    Professor Spaulding’s specialty is mammalian paleontology – this makes her an expert in several major fields of biology; evolution, systematics, and vertebrate anatomy.

  • January 23, 2019

    Equation for Success

    Professor Togbe received a BS from National University of Benin, an MS (in Differential Geometry) from University of Abidjan, an MS and Ph.D. (in Algebraic Number Theory) from University Laval (Canada).

  • September 19, 2018

    Going with the Flow

    Professor Chandra is a specialist in water resources and water quality modeling. He set his research focus to study the climate change impacts on low flow and flood flow regimes.