Six new full-time faculty and three visiting professors join the Wilkes Honors College in August, 2005 for the start of the Fall Semester.
The new faculty are:
Dr. Michelle Ivey, Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of California, comes to the Wilkes Honors College from Harvey Mudd College, where she was visiting assistant professor. Her research areas include ion chromatography and mass spectrometry analysis for environmental and biological systems.
Dr. Keith Jakee, Ph.D., Economics, George Mason University,lectured in the Department of Economics at Monash University before joining the Honors College. His research interests are in political economy, public choice, public policy, and law and economics, and his most recent work is on habit formation and dependency in the welfare state.
Dr. Yu Jiang, Ph.D., History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, comes to the Honors College after serving as a curatorial Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Gallery of Art and the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Dr. Jiang’s research focuses on the art and archaeology of early China.
Prof. Dorotha “Dori” Lemeh, MFA in Studio Art, Pennsylvania State University, joins us from the Pennsylvania State University, where she had been instructor, assistant professor of art painting and drawing, and coordinator of advising in the school of visual arts. To date she has shown her works of art in over 70 exhibitions nationally, as well as in Africa, Bulgaria, China, Italy, and Mexico. She has also published on a variety of topics including mixed media assemblages.
Dr. Nicholas Quintyne, Ph.D., Biology, Johns Hopkins University, served as a research associate and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsbugh and postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University before joining the Honors College. His research focuses on multipolar spindle formation in cancer cells.
Dr. Martin Sweet, Ph.D., Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison; J.D., University of Minnesota Law School, taught at Dickinson College before joining the Honors College. As a scholar of public law and American government, Dr. Sweet’s research chiefly focuses on the political causes and consequences of law-making.

In addition, three visiting assistant professors will join the Honors College for the 2005-2006 year.
Dr. Meredith Blue, Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Texas-Austin, taught at Eckerd College and the University of Texas-Austin, and worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratories before joining the Honors College. Her dissertation research was on general galois extensions.
Dr. William Londo , Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan, taught at Albion College before joining the Honors College. His dissertation was on popular religion in 11th century Japan. Dr. Londo teaches a variety of courses in Asian history, Asian religions, and Japanese culture.
Dr. Mandy Miller received her Ph.D. in Psychology from FAU and her J.D. from Northwestern University. She has taught courses in general psychology, social psychology, abnormal psychology, and evolutionary psychology. She represents mentally ill clients charged with felonies and/or misdemeanors for the Public Defender's office in Broward County.