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Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Operation, Engineering Psychology, Education Research and Development, Adaptive Computer-Aided Training Systems
Luigi (Lou) Lucaccini has a PhD in engineering psychology from UCLA and an MBA from USF. He is an adjunct professor both in the entrepreneurship, innovation, strategy and international business department in the School of Management and in the engineering department in the College of Arts and Sciences. He was part of the curriculum development group that helped to plan for USF’s engineering program. Among other assignments, he has enjoyed teaching courses for new students in the first-year…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Couples therapy, Sexual health, Gender identity, Sexual trauma and PTSD, Family therapy
Dr. Ludin is a licensed clinical psychologist (PSY32172) who specializes in the treatment of trauma, relationship concerns, sexual health, and identity-related concerns. She serves patients through the PTSD, THRIVE, and Sexual Dysfunction Clinics at Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Ludin received a master's degree in Education and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia. She completed her doctoral internship at the University of Michigan Mary A. Rackham Institute, where…
Associate Professor
Harney Science Center 418A
Allison Luengen received her MS in Marine Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). She then completed her PhD in Environmental Toxicology, also at UCSC. Following her PhD, she moved to the East Coast for postdoctoral research with Dr. Nicholas Fisher in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University. As a postdoc, Professor Luengen worked with radioisotopes to look at how methylmercury bioavailability to phytoplankton was affected by dissolved…
Adjunct Professor
Professor Lund’s passion is education, and her career has led her to serve in a number of roles in public school districts around the Bay Area. She feels honored to serve in this role and support the development of future teachers.
Professor
Masonic 217
Catherine Lusheck is Chair of the Department of Art + Architecture and Professor of Art History & Museum Studies. She holds a doctorate in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a specialist in early modern European art and curatorial practice. Her research interests include Renaissance drawings culture, early modern visual rhetoric and the classical tradition, and artistic emulation and self-representation in the art of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640).…
Adjunct Professor
Giancarlo Lyle-Edrosolo is an Adjunct Faculty for both the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Nursing Department at USF SONHP. He works full time at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center where he is the Assistant Patient Care Manager of a 32-bed Adult Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit (9/13 ICU). Prior to being the assistant manager of 9/13 ICU, he was a Clinical Nurse-III and Charge Nurse for the same unit. Giancarlo brings 12 years of healthcare…
Administrative Director
Seth Lynn is the Administrative Director for the Masters in Arts, Public Leadership program. He is an adjunct professor of civil-military relations public leadership. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2002, and served for six years as an active duty Marine Corps officer, during which time he deployed to Okinawa, Kuwait, and Iraq, and spent two summers studying Arabic at Middlebury College. After leaving active duty, he studied international relations and politics at Princeton…
Associate Professor
Harney Science Center 439
Tom MacDonald received his PhD from Stanford University. Professor MacDonald's research focuses on designing computer simulations of problems of pollution migration and using the results to engineer systems to contain pollutants and prevent further spreading. He has also published his research on the neural network application for bioremediation. Recently he has co-authored papers dealing with environmental risk and the precautionary principle.
Adjunct Professor
Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen (they/she) is a curator, consultant, facilitator, and project-based artist, born and based in San Francisco. With a decades-long background in the performing and visual arts, Rhiannon is deeply influenced by their own—and their communities’—intersectional identities. Driven by the pursuit of “productive discomfort,” and anchored in practices in equity, experimentation, and consistent incremental improvements, their curatorial focus is on projects that push boundaries of…
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 303
Dave Madden is the author of The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy, as well as a collection of short stories. His essays have appeared in Defector, the Guardian, Lit Hub, Harper's, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. He's received fellowships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference.