Bridges to the Baccalaureate - Faculty and Staff
Program Directors
Sarah Keadle, PhD, MPH
Dr. Keadle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology & Public Health. Her research focuses on how different physical activities (e.g. exercise) and sedentary behaviors relate to chronic disease prevention. She conducts observational studies to examine the link between these behaviors and health outcomes and intervention studies designed to reduce sitting and increase physical activity. She also has ongoing studies to determine how to accurately measure physical activity and sitting time using wearable sensors and previous day recalls.
Todd Hagobian, PhD
Dr. Hagobian is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Kinesiology & Public Health. His research interests are focused on lifestyle interventions with underrepresented populations, community-engaged interventions, and diabetes and obesity prevention and treatment interventions in pregnant and non-pregnant populations. He also has expertise in diabetes and obesity biomarkers, environmental and endocrine disrupting chemical interventions, quantitative methods, nutrition and physical activity interventions.
Co-Investigators
Alicia Fox, MS
Ms. Fox is an Associate Professor of Biology at Allan Hancock College who is committed to supporting students in the classroom and facilitating high impact practice opportunities. Her prior research was focused on population genetics in multiple lizard species. As a community college instructor, she has provided biology major students in General Zoology with an opportunity to conduct research in the classroom by developing a camera trap project at a local reserve. She has participated in an NSF funded multi-campus project providing research opportunities to lower division community college students. Students participating in research have presented results at workshops and international conferences with other schools participating in the project. As a graduate student at California State University of Long Beach, the lab she worked in participated in the Bridges to the Baccalaureate program with Cerritos College (a community college in Cerritos, CA). She had the opportunity to work with community college students doing research in herpetology and population genetics.
Jane Lehr, PhD
Dr. Lehr is the founding Director of the Office of Student Research and Professor in Ethnic Studies and Women’s, Gender & Queer Studies at Cal Poly. Her graduate training is in Science & Technology Studies and Women's Studies at Virginia Tech and her teaching and research focus on the complex relationships between gender, race, culture, science, technology, and education. Effective Summer 2023, she is an appointed member of the CSU Student Success Network Advisory Board. Dr. Lehr has substantial grant support focused on strategies to enhance recruitment, retention and improve academic programs for underrepresented students in STEM fields.
Sean Gottlieb, PhD
Sean Marc Gottlieb is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Allan Hancock College and has been teaching there since 2017. A California Bay Area native, Dr. Gottlieb attended Diablo Valley College (a community college in the East Bay) and earned his BS in Chemistry (2009) and PhD in Chemistry (2014) at UC Davis. Dr. Gottlieb’s graduate research focused on the femtosecond to nanosecond photodynamicsof cyanobacteriochromes and photovoltaic/semiconductor materials. From 2015 to 2017, Dr. Gottlieb served as full time faculty at Southeast Missouri State University, teaching multiple lower– and upper–division chemistry courses and mentoring undergraduate research students. As a faculty member at Allan Hancock College (2017 – present), Dr. Gottlieb has participated in multiple programs providing mentorship, training, and specialized experiences to community college students to help better prepare them for transfer. Dr. Gottlieb is excited to continue working with highly motivated students in the Bridges to the Baccalaureate program.
Program Administration Team
Brooke Latzke-Davis, MPH (blatzked@calpoly.edu)
Brooke is the Program Coordinator for the Bridges project. She splits her time between supporting Bridges and coordinating research projects designed to reduce sedentary screen time and increase physical activity. Brooke began her career in health services research, focusing on maternal and child health and health care. She has managed an evaluation of a distance-learning asthma training program and a case management/care coordination program for children with complex medical needs.
Program Mentor List
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