IRB Members
2026-2027 Members
- Alternate Member: Dr. Jennifer Bradley
About
- Dr. Morrie Mullins is a Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology. His research interests lie in the areas of Personnel Selection, Training, and Assessment Practices.
- Dr. Heidrun Schmitzer is a Professor in the Department of Physics. Her research field is plasmonics and polarization optics. Some of her projects with students involve cavitation in fluid dynamics, saccadic motion of the eye and Haidinger’s brushes, an optical illusion created within the eye.
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Dr. Burdette is an Assistant Professor/Program Director in Xavier’s College of Nursing MSN MIDAS program. Her areas of interest include the role of interprofessional education and the integration of social determinants of health in nursing education to impact population health outcomes.
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Dr. Brian R. Russ serves as an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Department at Xavier University. His research focuses on counseling marginalized individuals, including adolescent populations and individuals with substance use disorders, with a particular emphasis on opioid use disorder and medication-assisted treatment. He maintains a strong interest in qualitative research methodology.
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Dr. Joseph "Beau" Stephens is a cognitive neuroscientist and Professor in the School of Psychology at Xavier. His research investigates cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie auditory and visual perception, speech and language, memory, decision making, and cognitive aging. His research is highly collaborative and has been funded by grants from a variety of sources including the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Air Force Research Laboratory.
- Dr. Matthew Regele is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management & Entrepreneurship. His scholarship sits at the intersection of strategy, entrepreneurship, and organizational sociology, asking how the stories firms tell about purpose, power, and profit shape strategic choices, labor-market outcomes, and the sometimes-hidden “dark sides” of entrepreneurial growth.
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Dr. Kathleen MacMahon has more than thirty years of public service experience. As a community member she provides an independent, external perspective to the review of human subject research studies.