Advisory Board | Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship

Shuhao Cao

Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
he/him
Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
scao@umkc.edu
Flarsheim Hall 560F

Expertise: Scientific Computing, Data-driven Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Finite Element Methods, Approximation Theory of Transformers, PyTorch contributor.

Alison Graettinger

Associate Professor
she/her
Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
graettingera@umkc.edu
816-235-1287 | 420F Flarsheim Hall

Expertise: Earth and Environmental Science

Jane Greer

Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor
Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
greerj@umkc.edu
Cockefair Hall 114

Expertise: English, Digital and Public Humanities

Amanda Grimes, PhD, MCHES

Associate Professor
Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
grimesA@umkc.edu
816-235-1737

Lani Hamilton

Associate Professor of Music Education
Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
hamiltonlan@umkc.edu
816-235-2354 | 317 Grant Hall

Kimberly Johnson

Senior Program Manager of Student Support Services
Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
johnsonkimd@umkc.edu
816-235-6609 | Student Union 319

Debra Leiter

Associate Professor
Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
leiterd@umkc.edu
816-235-2535 | Cherry Hall 414

Expertise: Western Europe, Political Behavior, Political Parties

Jesse Lowe

Assistant Teaching Professor
Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
Flarsheim Hall 450N

Hillary McGraw

Assistant Professor
she/her
Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
mcgrawh@umkc.edu
816-235-2590 | 472D BSB

Zahra Niroobakhsh

Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
niroobakhshz@umkc.edu
816-235-6394 | 350D Flarsheim Hall

Expertise: Soft matters such as surfactants, lipids, colloids and polymers; fluid dynamics of non-Newtonian flows; bulk and interfacial rheologies; thermodynamics phase behavior and Kinetics; self-assembly aggregates structure-property relation; surface tension measurement; microfluidics, microscale and 3D printing experiments

Paul Rulis

Associate Professor
Graduate Coordinator
he/him
Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
rulisp@umkc.edu
816-235-5223 | Flarsheim Hall 250D

Expertise: Computational materials physics, first principles calculations, density functional theory, structural and functional materials modeling, method development

Jeff Rydberg-Cox

Curators' Distinguished Professor
Classic, Medieval and Early Modern Emphasis Advisor
he/him/his
Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
rydbergcoxj@umkc.edu
Cockefair Hall 220

Expertise: Classical and Ancient Studies; English; Languages and Literatures: Greek/Latin; Network Analysis; Digital and Public Humanities