Professors bring wealth of experience to science department

by Lauren Rose Marcucci staff writer

Looking around Cabrini's campus, a person sees a lot of new faces. Not all those faces are students, however. There are some new professors on Cabrini's faculty as well. The science department has two new professors.

Dr. Sheryle Fuller-Espie has been teaching since she was a graduate student at the University of Washington in Seattle. Before coming to Cabrini she taught at Beaver College for two years. There she taught many types of biology labs and a senior seminar class, which she sees as the most important.

Fuller-Espie is a strong believer in the teacher- student relationship. "One of the things I like about Cabrini is the small classes," Fuller-Espie said. "They give the instructor a chance to get to know the students on a more personal level." She thinks that students do not realize the importance of getting to know a professor well enough that the professor can write a recommendation for them.

Fuller-Espie received her doctorate from the University of London at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. She lived in London for 11 years. While there, she met her husband,

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David, and they started a family that now includes a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Stephanie.

She sees her time in London as very important to her personal growth. She believes that students need to realize that there are many different ways of doing things and the only way to completely understand them is to experience them.

When she is not teaching a lab or advising a student to get out and experience other countries, she is the assistant coach for her son's soccer team. She plays the piano, guitar and saxophone and enjoys dancing.

Another new face on Cabrini's faculty is Dr. Louis Nudy. He is the newest chemistry professor. He comes to Cabrini from a part-time teaching position at Drexel University. He also worked for 14 years at ARCO Chemical Company as Manager of Responsible Care.

When asked which career he prefers, he said he could not choose.

"My experiences at ARCO bring something richer to my teaching," he said. One of the reasons he came to Cabrini is because the college will allow him to pm-

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If he is not in his office helping a student understand chemistry, he likes to golf, go wind surfing and spend time with his wife, Lisa, and their son, Evan. Nudy has traveled to Belgium while working at ARCO and was interviewed for an article in ChemicalWeek.

When asked what he likes most about Cabrini, he said, "The focus here is where it should be, on the students."

Nudy said that there is something special about Cabrini because the mission statement actually means something here.