Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD)
Participating Institutions

Arizona | California | Colorado | Hawaii | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Louisiana | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | Oklahoma | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Washington |

ARIZONA

Kiisa C. Nishikawa
Northern Arizona University
Department of Biological Sciences
P.O. Box 5640
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5640
Tel: (520) 523-9497
Fax: (520) 523-7500
E-mail: kiisa.nishikawa@nau.edu

Maria T. Velez
University of Arizona
Graduate College
Administration 302
Tucson, AZ 85721-0066
Tel: (520) 621-7814
Fax: (520) 621-7112
E-mail: mvelez@u.arizona.edu

CALIFORNIA

Christina A. Goode
California State University, Fullerton
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
P.O. Box 6866
Fullerton, CA 92834-6866
Tel: (714) 278-2505
Fax: (714) 278-5316
E-mail: cgoode@fullerton.edu

Christina C. Wang
Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute
Department of Medicine
1124 West Carson Street
Clinical Study Center
Torrance, CA 90502-2064
Tel: (310) 222-2503
Fax: (310) 533-6972
E-mail: wang@gcrc.rei.edu

Marino A. De Leon
Loma Linda University
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
11234 Anderson Street
Loma Linda, CA 92354
Tel: (909) 558-8777
Fax: (909) 558-0177
E-mail: mdeleon@som.llu.edu

Vernon L. Avila
San Diego State University
Department of Biology
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-4614
Tel: (619) 594-7030
Fax: (619) 594-5676
E-mail: vavila@sunstroke.sdsu.edu

Barbara A. Horwitz
University of California, Davis
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior
One Shields Avenue
Npb - Briggs Hall
Davis, CA 95616-8519
Tel: (530) 752-0169
Fax: (530) 752-5582
E-mail: bahorwitz@ucdavis.edu

Luis Mota-Bravo
University of California, Irvine
Minority Science Program
265 Steinhaus Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-2527
Tel: (949) 824-5680
Fax: (949) 824-6599
E-mail: lmota@uci.edu

Richard L. Weiss
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Box 951569
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
Tel: (310) 825-3621
Fax: (310) 206-5213
E-mail: weiss@chem.ucla.edu

C. Clifford Attkisson
University of California, San Francisco
Graduate Division
500 Parnassus Avenue
Millberry Union, 200 West
San Francisco, CA 94143-0244
Tel: (415) 476-9716
Fax: (415) 476-9690
E-mail: cliff@saa.ucsf.edu

Barry J. Bowman
University of California, Santa Cruz
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Sinsheimer Laboratory
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Tel: (831) 459-2245
Fax: (831) 459-3139
E-mail: bowman@biology.ucsc.edu

COLORADO

Robert E. Boswell
University of Colorado at Boulder
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
347 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0347
Tel: (303) 492-8565
Fax: (303) 492-7744
E-mail: robert.boswell@colorado.edu

HAWAII

Healani K. Chang
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Pacific Biomedical Research Center
1993 East West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8268
Fax: (808) 956-2892
E-mail: healani@pbrc.hawaii.edu

INDIANA

Thomas F. Donahue
Indiana University, Bloomington
Department of Biology
Jordan Hall, A309
Bloomington, IN 47405
Tel: (812) 855-8883
Fax: (812) 855-6705
E-mail: donahue@bio.indiana.edu

IOWA

Beverly Davidson
University of Iowa
Department of Internal Medicine
200 EMRB, Newton Road
Iowa City, IA 52242
Tel: (319) 353-5511
Fax:  (319) 353-5572
E-mail: beverly-davidson@uiowa.edu

KANSAS

James A. Orr
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Division of Biological Sciences
2045 Haworth Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045
Tel: (785) 864-5885
Fax: (785) 864-5321
E-mail: jorr@ku.edu

LOUISIANA

Robert M. Strongin
Louisiana State University
Department of Chemistry
232 Choppin Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Tel: (225) 578-3458
Fax: (225) 578-3458
E-mail: rstrong@lsu.edu

MARYLAND

Michael F. Summers
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Tel: (410) 455-2527
Fax: (410) 455-1174
E-mail: summers@hhmi.umbc.edu

MASSACHUSETTS

Louise M. Ryan
Harvard University
Department of Biostatistics
655 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (617) 432-1056
Fax: (617) 739-1781
E-mail: lryan@hsph.harvard.edu

MICHIGAN

Harold W. Neighbors
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Health Behavior and Health Education Department
1420 Washington Heights
109 Observatory
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
Tel: (734) 936-
Fax: (734) 763-7379
E-mail: woodyn@umich.edu

Joseph C. Dunbar
Wayne State University
Department of Physiology
540 E. Canfield
Detroit, MI 48201-1928
Tel: (313) 577-1520
Fax: (313) 577-5494
E-mail: jdunbar@med.wayne.edu

MINNESOTA

Louis J. Maher
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
200 First Street S.W.
Rochester, MN 55905
Tel: (507) 284-9041
Fax: (507) 284-2053
E-mail: maherjames@mayo.edu

MISSISSIPPI

John S. Williamson
University of Mississippi
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
School of Pharmacy, Faser 415W
University, MS 38677
Tel: (662) 915-7101
Fax: (662) 915-5638
E-mail: mcjsw@olemiss.edu

MISSOURI

Gerald M. Buening
University of Missouri, Columbia
College of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Pathobiology
201 Connaway Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
Tel: (573) 882-6550
Fax: (573) 884-5414
E-mail: bueningg@missouri.edu

MONTANA

James A. Mcmillan
Montana State University, Bozeman
American Indian Research Opportunities
312 Roberts Hall
P.O. Box 173925
Bozeman, MT 59717-3925
Tel: (406) 994-5567
Fax: (406) 994-5559
E-mail: jamc@montana.edu

NEW JERSEY

Ann Cali
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark
MBRS Program Office
360 Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Blvd.
Hill Hall, Room 404
Newark, NJ 07102
Tel: (973) 353-5364
Fax: (973) 353-1007
E-mail: anncali@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Michael J. Leibowitz
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, and Immunology
675 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854-5635
Tel: (732) 235-4795
Fax: (732) 235-5223
E-mail: leibowit@umdnj.edu

NEW MEXICO

Margaret C. Werner-Washburne
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Department of Biology
Castetter Hall
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Tel: (505) 277-9338
Fax: (505) 277-0304
E-mail: maggieww@unm.edu

NEW YORK

Ana F. Abraido-Lanza
Columbia University Health Sciences
School of Public Health
600 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
Tel: (212) 305-1859
Fax: (212) 305-0315
E-mail: afl7@columbia.edu

Jay Zimmerman
St. John's University
Department of Biological Sciences
8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
Tel: (718) 990-6288
Fax: (718) 990-5958
E-mail: zimmermj@stjohns.edu

NORTH CAROLINA

Henry T. Frierson
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Graduate School
200 Bynum Hall, CB 4010
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-4010
Tel: (919) 962-6323
Fax: (919) 966-4010
E-mail: ht_frierson@unc.edu

OKLAHOMA

Robert V. Miller
Oklahoma State University
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
307 Life Sciences East
Stillwater, OK 74078
Tel: (405) 744-6099
Fax: (405) 744-6790
E-mail: rum67@okstate.edu

SOUTH CAROLINA

TENNESSEE

Roger R. Chalkley
Vanderbilt University
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
340 Light Hall
Nashville, TN 37232-0301
Tel: (615) 343-4611
Fax: (615) 343-0749
E-mail: roger.chalkley@mcmmail.vanderbilt.edu

TEXAS

Gayle R. Slaughter
Baylor College of Medicine
Graduate Sciences Department
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, TX 77030
Tel: (713) 798-6644
Fax: (713) 798-6325
E-mail: gayles@bcm.tmc.edu

Lynda L. Uphouse
Texas Woman's University
Department of Biology
College of Arts and Sciences
P.O. Box 425799
Denton, TX 76204-5799
Tel: (940) 898-2356
Fax: (940) 898-2382
E-mail: luphouse@twu.edu

Thomas Yorio
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
3500 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76107-2699
Tel: (817) 735-0258
Fax: (817) 735-0243
E-mail: yoriot@hsc.unt.edu

Cary W. Cooper
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
Graduate School of Biomedical Science
Galveston, TX 77555-0132
Tel: (409) 772-2665
Fax: (409) 747-0772
E-mail: ccooper@utmb.edu

WASHINGTON

Patrick S. Stayton
University of Washington
Department of Bioengineering
Box 357962
Seattle, WA 98195-7962
Tel: (206) 685-8148
Fax: (206) 685-8256
E-mail: stayton@u.washington.edu