Brad Bays is an Associate Professor of Geography who joined OSU in 1995. He holds a B.A. (Geography) from Oklahoma State University, an M.S. (Geography) from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and a Ph.D. (Geography) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A fifth-generation Payne Countian, Bays’s research focuses on agricultural history, farm settlement, and the consequences of U.S. Indian policy on rural land use. He has conducted rural fieldwork in all of Oklahoma’s 77 counties. Bays was an early adopter of online instruction at OSU and has been recognized for his teaching, scholarship by the National Council for Geographic Education, the National Geographic Society, American Association of Geographers, the Oklahoma Historical Society, and Oklahoma State University. He teaches courses on human geography, natural resource conservation, North American historical geography, and the geography of U.S. Indian trust lands.

Charles I. Abramson is a Regents Professor of Psychology and holds the Lawrence L. Boger Professorship in International Studies. Dr. Abramson also holds adjunct appointments in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology and the Department of Integrative Biology. Dr. Abramson has published over 260 papers and 20 books/special issue editor. Many of these publications describe hands-on inquiry based student activities using a variety of organisms, including humans. He has created numerous programs including the "Psych Museum" and the "Psych Mobile." Dr. Abramson has received many awards for his teaching at the national, state, and local levels including the 2003 Robert S. Daniel Teaching Excellence Award of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, American Psychological Association, the 2012 Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence in Teaching Medal for Research University Teaching and five time recipient of the Outstanding Psychology Professor Award from the Oklahoma Psychological Society. He was inducted into both the Oklahoma Educators Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma High Education Hall of Fame in 2018.

 

Dr. Abramson has extensive experience developing and integrating hands-on activities into a variety of classrooms across educational institutions including high school and college both here in the United States and abroad. He looks forward to sharing these activities with colleagues around the university. Some of his goals as a Faculty Teaching Fellow include helping introductory instructors to develop and integrate hands-on activities into their classrooms and to encourage faculty and students to think globally. He has worked in over 20 countries looks forward to sharing these experiences and to help faculty develop their own international programs.

 

His research program is in the field of comparative psychology which he defines as the "Application of the comparative method to problems in psychology." He has worked with a wide range of species (from "ants to elephants to humans" in both applied and theoretical problems such as the development of mathematical models of the learning processes to basic comparative questions, to the effect of agrochemicals on behavior. He has been part of National Science Foundation grants in excess of $7,000,000. Many of these grants have been associated with the NSF-REU and NSF-PIRE educational programs.