These are just some of the new faces Colgate welcomed this semester.
Ramesh Adhikari, assistant professor of physics and astronomy
Comes to Colgate from: Jacksonville University, where he served as an assistant professor of physics
Teaching specialties include: physics core courses at all levels. He is also interested in integrating active learning pedagogies to make learning physics more interactive
Research interests include: working on projects that involve using biodegradable and sustainable materials for construction of electronic components and energy harvesting
Fatima Aqeel, assistant professor of economics
Comes to Colgate from: Boston University
Teaching specialties include: introductory economics and gender economics
Research interests include: development economics, labor economics, and gender economics
Noah Apthorpe, assistant professor of computer science
Comes to Colgate from: Princeton University
Research interests include: privacy and security, human-computer interaction, applied machine learning, and computer networks
T. Dionne Bailey, assistant professor of Africana and Latin American studies
Comes to Colgate from: the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, where she served as a teaching and research postdoctoral fellow
Teaching specialties include: racial and social injustice, history of mass incarceration, Black feminist theory, gender and hiphop, Southern culture
Research interests include: African American women’s history, carceral studies, critical race studies, the South in the 20th century, and Black feminist theory
Jenny Peeler, assistant professor of chemistry
Comes to Colgate from: Boston College, where she served as a postdoc in the chemistry department
Teaching specialties include: biochemistry
Research interests include: chemical biology, especially the use of genetic code expansion to study post-translational modifications and selenoprotein biology
Brent Rodriguez-Plate, Gretchen Hoadley Burke Endowed Chair for regional studies
Comes to Colgate from: Hamilton College, where he served as professor of religious studies and cinema and media studies by special appointment
Teaching specialties include: religion and visual culture and religion and media
Research interests include: theories of religion, comparative religion, media studies, and sense perception