RISE MENTORS
Gloria S. McCutcheon, PhD
Professor of Biology
Principal Investigator and Director
Claflin University Research Initiatives for Scientific Enhancement (RISE)
National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Samina N. Assanie-Shivji, PhD
Professor of Biology
Principal Investigator
Claflin University Research Initiatives for Scientific Enhancement (RISE)
National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Professor /Department of Chemistry
Professor of Biology and Director, South Carolina Center for Biotechnology
Anisah Bagasra, PhD
Interim Director of Online Education and an Assistant Professor of Psychology
Tantiana Burns, PhD
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science
Research Interest:
Environmental toxicology, Mycotoxins, Bioremediation
Associate Professor of Biology & Director of the Genomics & Sequencing Lab
Associate Professor of Biology
Dr. Steffani Driggins
Visiting Associate Professor of Biology
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Camelia-Maria Kantor, PhD
Assistant Professor Geography
Mihail Kantor, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow/Research Assistant
Department of Biology
Karina Liles, PhD
Assistant Professor School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Alison McLetchie, PhD
Anthropology, M.A.
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Associate Professor of Biology
Shrikant Pawar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Verlie G. Tisdale, PhD
Dean- School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Advisory Board Member