Biology

Faculty and Staff

 

BIOLOGY Faculty
Office Hours

Dorothy Christopher, PhD
Assistant Professor
   Plant Ecology & Evolution
Email
SB Room 146

203-837-8831

Neeta Connally, PhD, MSPH

Co -Dept. Chair, 
CSU Professor
Medical Entomology,
Epidemiology
203-837-8749
Email
SB Room 140

Joshua Cordeira, PhD
Associate Professor
Neuroscience
203-837-8940
Email
SB Room 238

Kristin Giamanco, PhD
Associate Professor
Cell Biology
203-837-8968
Email
SB Room 205
 

Stephen “Mitch” Wagener, PhD
Professor
Ecology,
Climate Change Education
203-837-8790
Email
SB Room 145

Michelle Monette, PhD

Co -Dept. Chair
Associate Professor
Physiology
203-837-9894
Email
SB Room 141

Theodora Pinou, PhD
 Professor
Herpetology,
Snake Systematics
203-837-8793
Email
SB Room 242

 

*Sabbatical Fall 2025

Hannah Reynolds, PhD
Associate Professor
Microbiology, Mycology
203-837-8796
Email
SB Room 213

Carlos Santibanez-Lopez, PhD
Assistant Professor
Genetics
203-837-8233
Email
SB Room 206

Zachary Popkin-Hall
Assistant Professor
SB Room 212

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 
Physics, Astronomy, and Atmospheric & Climate Sciences Faculty

Rob Eisenson

Associate Professor of Meteorology 

AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM-ret)
e-mail: eisensonr@wcsu.edu

203 837 8989

SB Room 277
James P. Boyle

Associate Professor of Meteorology and Physics

e-mail: boylej@wcsu.edu

SB Room 273
Xinxuan Zhang

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Staff

Eliamar Gonzalez
Department Secretary
E-mail
203-837-8791
SB Room 220

Heidi Schoenberg
Science Technical Specialist
203-837-8321
SB Room 343
Alondra Lenz
Department Marketing & Media Director
E-mail
Alton Spencer
Physics, Astronomy, and Atmospheric & Climate Sciences Lab Support
Part-Time Faculty
Rayda Krell, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Plant-Insect Ecology,
Entomology
203-837-8835
Email
SB Room 272		 Ghada Salah-Hafez, PhD
Adjunct Professor
E-mail		 Debbi Johnson, MA
Adjunct Professor
E-mail 
203-837-3212
SB Room 236		 Larry Marsicano, MS
Adjunct Professor
Aquatic Ecosystem Research
E-mail
Michael Murphy, DC
Adjunct Professor
Murphy Family Chiropractic
E-mail		 Kara Mia Colon 

email: colonk@wcsu.edu

 Sandra M. Zapata-Ramirez

email: zapatas@wcsu.edu

 Kayla DeGuzman

email: deguzmank@wcsu.edu
Darly George 

email: georged@wcsu.edu

 Elizabeth Iaciofano 

email: iaciofanoe@wcsu.edu

 Lisa Mazinksi

email: mazinskil@wcsu.edu

 Harold JR Condosta 

email: condostah@wcsu.edu

 
Kara Mia Colon 

email: colonk@wcsu.edu

 

 Zeena Yonkers

email: yonkersz@wcsu.edu
Noreen Grice 

 

Erica Bower

Adjunct Professor

e-mail: bowere@wcsu.edu
   
 
Emeritus
Susan Maskel, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Immunology & Physiology
E-mail

 Ruth Gyure, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Microbiology
Email		 Richard Halliburton, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Genetics
E-mail 		 Jean Kreizinger, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Plant Physiology
E-mail
Howard Russock, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Animal Behavior
E-mail		 Edwin Wong, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Molecular Biology
Email