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Elizabeth A. Bachen
Associate Professor of Psychology
Esther Lee Mirmow Chair
NSB 145, 510.430.2141, bachen@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Clinical psychology, women's health, how psychological stress affects health; psychosocial and biological mechanisms of stress and health, psychoneuroimmunology

Christie Chung
Assistant Professor of Psychology
NSB 148, 510.430.2251, cchung@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Memory in old age; changes in emotional memory throughout the lifespan; statistical memory modeling; cognitive changes associated with Parkinson'sdisease

Carol C. George
Professor of Psychology
NSB 143, 510.430.3268, george@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Developmental psychology, social and emotional development, trauma and loss, attachment

John Harris
Professor of Biology
NSB 122, 510.430.2027, johnh@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Behavioral and community ecology, wildlife conservation

Elizabeth Kochly
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
NSB 111, 510.430.2317, ekochly@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Mechanistic studies and reactive intermediates in organic chemistry; organic reactions in ionic liquids

Dean M. Morier
Associate Professor of Psychology
Faculty Executive Committee Division Representative
NSB 142, 510.430.3164, dean@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Social psychology, personality and social behavior, social cognition

Bruce Pavlik
Professor of Biology
NSB 131, 510.430.2158, bruce@mills.edu 
Professional Interests: Establishing a major research center for ecological restoration in California, developing scientific approaches to restoring plant populations and ecosystems, ecology of rarity in vascular plants, photosynthesis and water stress acclimation in perennial plants

Cedar Riener
Assistant Professor of Psychology
NSB 147, 510.430.2368, creiner@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Cognitive psychology, visual perception, perception of distance and slant, how the body affects perception, human-computer interaction, the sense of "presence" in virtual reality

John C. Ruch
Professor of Psychology, Department Head
NSB 144, 510.430.3269, johnr@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Visual thinking and problem solving, computer-based multimedia strategies in education

Susan C. Spiller
Associate Professor of Biology
On leave Fall 2008
NSB 127, 510.430.3175, spiller@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Physiology and molecular biology of plants and photosynthetic bacteria

Lisa Urry
Professor of Biology
Biology Department Head
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Program Head
NSB 123, 510.430.2026, lurry@mills.edu  Professional Interests: Developmental biology of sea urchin embryos and larvae, cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions

John J. Vollmer
Professor of Chemistry
Scheffler Pre-Health Science Chair
NSB 129, 510.430.2154, johnv@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Natural product chemistry, isolation and identification of toxic constituents of plants, chemical education, science writing

Elisabeth Wade
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Gibbons-Young Chair
Department Head of Chemistry and Physics
Environmental Science and Studies Program Head
NSB 117, 510.430.3132, ewade@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Chemical kinetics, atmospheric pollutants, atmospheric and combustion chemistry

Jared Young
Assistant Professor of Biology
NSB 120, 510.430.2032, jyoung@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Genetics and pharmacology of learned behaviors in the nematode C. elegans

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Susan Carter
Faculty Administrative Assistant
NSB 146, 510.436.2176, scarter@mills.edu

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