Faculty for the 2009 STEM Academy are from Wright State University, Clark State, and Sinclair Community Colleges.

Athanasios Bubulya, an instructor in Biological Sciences at Wright State, will bring hands-on laboratory experiences to the teaching of the interdisciplinary biology module. Dr. Bubulya, previously the science coordinator at the Dolan DNA Learning Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, is a molecular cell biologist with extensive laboratory research experience. He has published several peer reviewed research articles and is currently teaching and evaluating curriculum for a first year course for STEM majors funded by a $2 million NSF-STEP grant, which has also been adopted by Sinclair Community College.

Kay C. Cornelius, a professor of mathematics at Sinclair Community College, will co-teach the mathematics module. In addition to her graduate degree and 14 years of teaching experience at Sinclair, she also has an undergraduate degree in engineering and over 10 years of experience in aerospace. At Sinclair, Cornelius teaches a wide variety of mathematics courses with hands-on and group-oriented components and labs. She has authored several activities-based mathematics and engineering activities-based modules under an NSF grant, and was honored as Innovator of the Year in 2002. Cornelius recently helped to extend the scope of the Women in Engineering Technology summer program to WiSTEM and taught a full day of workshops at the Sinclair WiSTEM Institute for high school girls in 2008.

Nathan Klingbeil, professor of mechanical engineering and former Robert J. Kegerreis Distinguished Professor of Teaching at Wright State University, will lead the teaching of the interdisciplinary engineering module. Dr. Klingbeil leads WSU's National Model for Engineering Mathematics Education, which has garnered more than $2.5 million in NSF funding and is currently being used at 16 institutions across the country. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his work in engineering education, and was named the 2005 Ohio Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

Jerome Murray, a full-time instructor of mathematics at Clark State Community College, will co-teach the mathematics module. A recent graduate of Indiana University where he focused on pure mathematics, Murray is now responsible for teaching and updating the statistics and engineering mathematics courses at Clark State. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he is a faculty advisor for Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges.