Faculty Sabbaticals for Academic Year 2025-2026
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The following list of faculty sabbaticals have been approved for the 2025-2026 academic year. Pacific is proud to support our colleagues in this research. 

 

College of Arts & Sciences

Ian Besse, Supporting the Pacific Data Science Program through Targeted Retraining with a Focus on Healthcare- related Data Science Tools and Methodologies

 

Bonnie BolkanUsing Teaching and Research to Enhance Genetic Research within Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda

 

Jules Boykoff, The Olympics in Norway: Successful Games, a Failed Bid, and Deliberative Democracy

 

Bill Breslin, Using Neural Networks to Model Tube Amplifiers and Distortion Circuits

 

Timmy Brown, Redesigning MATH 122 to Enhance Student Engagement and Success

 

Tyler Brumfield, Visual Languages: Inspiration, Discovery and Creation

 

Rebecca ConcepcionStudent Success and Retention: Refining the Utilization of the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement

 

Todd Duncan, Exploring the Benefits of an Information-Based Ontology

 

Stacey Halpern, Developing R-based Data Analysis, Organization, Visualization, and Presentation Materials in the R for Teaching in Biology

 

Dijana IhasFulbright Project in Finland: Mastering Colourstrings Approach to Teaching Music at Its Finnish Roots

 

Brent JohnsonTraveling with Time: A Series of Slow Travel Essays

 

Lalit Khandare, Heroic Courage for Freedom and Justice: An examination of effective practice framework in anti-Caste movement

 

Katharine Loevy, Objects of Religion and Works of Art: Problems of Aesthetics and Ontology

 

Adam Rafalovich, Physician-Assisted Suicide: An Autoethnographic Account

 

Fredrick StampsInvestigating Absent referents, signer's perspective, and the reality principle in mirrored songs in ASL.

 

Alexander Webster, SafeSport and Name, Image and Likeness: How do these work together to help athletes?

 

 

College of Optometry

Bulson, Ryan, Development of a Novel Course for First Year Optometry Students in How to Thrive

 

Lonsberry, Blair, Diagnosis and management of periocular lesion Training
 

 

College of Health Professions

Dana Bates, Flipping a General Medical Course

Tzurei Chen, Fall Prevention in Individuals with Limb Loss

Kim Malin, Power Yoga Training, Lower Extremity Power Asymmetry and Fall Risk in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease
 

Paul Michael, Meta-analysis of the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS)
  

College of Education

Bryan Cichy-Parker, Urban special education: Will this free us?

 

Kerry Mandulak, Advancing knowledge of alternative grading methods through collaborative research and partnerships.

 

Anil Oommen, De Facto Assimilation to Reclaimed Biliteracy: An Auto-Ethnographic Journey Through Multilingual Identity and Education

 

Cristy Sellers, Reducing the cost of college for students through faculty professional development on open education resources

 

 

College of Business

Hossein Rikhtehgar Berenji, Key Factors Shaping ESG Reporting: Focus on Operations and Supply Chain Practices

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