As the Executive Director of Research and Innovation, SCSU Professor of Physics Christine Broadbridge oversees the Division of Research and Innovation (DRI). Dr. Broadbridge received her M.S. and Ph.D. in engineering from Brown University, where she conducted research in the fields of materials science, physics, and nanotechnology. Dr. Broadbridge participated in the establishment and is currently education director for the Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena (CRISP) at Yale and SCSU and is a Yale Visiting Fellow in Applied Physics as well as a Research Scientist at UCONN. She is the founding Director of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Center for Nanotechnology (CSCU-CNT), the SCSU Office of Research & Innovation (Innovation HUB) and the BioScience Academic and Career Pathway Initiative (BioPath). In addition to being the immediate past President for the CT Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), Dr. Broadbridge is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of Sigma Pi Sigma and Tau Beta Pi (national honor societies for physics and engineering respectively).
Peter Dimoulas serves as Program Manager and Grant Program Administrator for BioPath as well as IRWECA. He leads BioPath as an educator with 10 plus years of experience teaching Science at the high school and community college level, including administrative experience. His passions include connecting students with the business community to ensure that what we (as educators) do sets students on a promising career and educational pathway in line with what the local labor market needs.
Helen Keegan is the Secretary for the SCSU Innovation HUB at BioPath and the Division of Research and Innovation. She’s an alumna of Southern Connecticut State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
Alexandra Lindgren is a Graduate Assistant for the SCSU Innovation Hub and is in the MAT for Secondary Education in Biology program at Southern. She graduated in May of 2022 from Central Connecticut State University with a Bachelor of Biology and she minored in Chemistry and Biological Anthropology. Alexandra helps assist the Innovation Hub in planning and coordinating events.
Griffin Gordon is a Graduate Assistant for the SCSU Innovation Hub at BioPath, and is a 2nd year Master’s student in the Marriage and Family Therapy department. Griffin graduated with a Bachelor of Psychology from Yale University in 2022, and they have been working with BioPath as a Graduate Assistant since February 2023. Griffin helps support event planning, marketing, and longitudinal tracking.
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