Location: Science 2 Building – Room 257
Main Office: (607) 777-5523
*NEW* Text a current student: (607) 205-8462
Email: fri@binghamton.edu
FRI Office

Megan Fegley, Ph.D.
Director
First-year Research Immersion Program

Caitlin Light
Assistant Director, Researcher, Microbial Biofilms in Human Health
First-year Research Immersion Program

Anita Cipolla
Administrative Assistant 1
First-year Research Immersion Program
Research Educators

Christina Baer
Ecological Genetics, Research Assistant Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program

Umur Ciftci
Image and Acoustic Signals Analysis, Research Assistant Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program; School of Computing

Sanat Dash
Research Educator
First-year Research Immersion Program

Deborah Kreiss
Neuroscience, Research Assistant Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program

Caitlin Light
Assistant Director, Researcher, Microbial Biofilms in Human Health
First-year Research Immersion Program

Yiliang (Yancy) Luan
Clean Energy, Research Assistant Professor
Chemistry; First-year Research Immersion Program

Shane McCarty
Public Health, Research Assistant Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program

Joe Panzik
Environmental Visualization, Research Assistant Professor; Research Educator
First-year Research Immersion Program; Department of Earth Sciences

Whitni Redman
Biofilms, Research Assistant Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program

Jonathan Schmitkons
Biogeochemistry, Research Associate Professor; Biogeochemistry, Research Assistant Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program; Department of Earth Sciences

Michel Shamoon Pour
Molecular and Biomedical Anthropology, Research Associate Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program

Patricia Wolfe
Drug Discovery, Research Assistant Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program
FRI Affiliates

Michelle D. Withers, Ph.D.
Associate Professor; STEM Educator
Biological Sciences
FRI Student Interns
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Lydia Luo |
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Skyler Smith |