Faculty & Staff

Governor’s School in the Integration of Biological & Statistical Sciences

Governors School

ETSU math and science faculty lead the ETSU Governor's School for the Integration of Biological and Statistical Sciences, along with additional collaborators. Students learn foundational biology and statistics content and apply this as they design and carry out their own research projects. The students will also experience an array of off-campus trips ranging from studies at the Gray Fossil Site to the the Carter Family Fold & Museum. A brief bio for each of these individuals is provided below in the Bio section.

Leadership

See the "Contact Us" page for more information about the Leadership Team.

Primary Instructors

Dr. Robert M. Price

Robert Price is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences at East Tennessee State University (ETSU). He received his BS and MS degrees in Mathematics from Youngstown State University, his MS degree in Statistics from The Ohio State University, and his Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the University of Wyoming. Robert’s undergraduate instructional experience is at a primarily undergraduate institution, and includes 1) Probability and Statistics – Noncalculus, 2) Mathematical Statistics I and II. In addition, he has offered graduate courses in statistics. He has chaired many MS projects. His research interests are in applied statistics and meta-analysis. He has experience in Latex, Minitab, Matlab, R, and SAS.

Dr. Price may be contacted at (423)439-5359 or pricejr@etsu.

Dr. Aaron Hardgrave

Dr. Aaron Hardgrave is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Education at ETSU's Quillen College of Medicine, where he teaches anatomy and Embryology in the pre-clerkship medical curriculum. He earned his PHD in Biomedical Sciences at ETSU. He is passionate about biology and about spreading enthusiasm for how we come to understand the natural systems at work within the organisms around us. More specifically, his interests lie in comparative anatomy and morphology, and in using these approaches to describe how animal form evolves in response to functional demand. He has also taught a range of undergraduate lectures and laboratories, including Biology for Majors II, Comparative Anatomy, Biochemistry of Macromolecules, and Biochemistry of Metabolism. His research centers on the functional morphology of the eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens, and how bone shape adapts to different environments as the animals undergo ontogenetic niche shifts. He has also worked on the osteology of bat scapulae and vertebrae and their adaptations for non-flight locomotion.

You may contact him at hardgrave@etsu.edu

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