Mercy Mumba was named a Distinguished Research Professor in the Capstone College of Nursing at the University of Alabama. She is the founding director of the Center for Substance Use Research and Related Conditions at the university. Her work addresses critical public health challenges with an emphasis on substance use, addiction, and mental health research.
Dr. Mumba holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a Ph.D. in nursing science research and education from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Krystle McLaughin was promoted to associate professor of chemistry and granted tenure at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She joined the faculty at Vassar in 2017. Currently, Dr. McLaughin is co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Centers for Research on Structural Biology of Infectious Diseases.
Dr. McLaughin is a graduate of Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, where she majored in physics. She holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Rochester in New York.
Nsoki Mavinga was promoted to professor of mathematics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. She joined the faculty in 2014 after teaching at the University of Rochester. Her research focuses on nonlinear analysis and partial differential equations. She is particularly interested in the solvability of nonlinear second-order parabolic and elliptic partial differential equations subject to nonlinear boundary conditions, and how these problems interrelate with physical and biological phenomena.
Professor Mavinga holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
