Michael Mares
Sam Noble Museum
Director/Professor
mamares@ou.edu
Museum director and scientist, Michael A. Mares, PhD, has a rodent, a bat, and a parasite named after him. Mares, the world's foremost expert on the natural history of desert rodents and desert rodent evolution, is responsible for the discovery of many species new to science. When he isn't setting up field research in the deserts of Argentina, Iran, Egypt, or the United States, Mares is a professor of zoology at Oklahoma University and director of the Sam Noble Museum, one of the world’s great university natural history museums. Under Mares' leadership, and after raising more than $45 million dollars, the Sam Noble Museum was built for Oklahoma, opening in 2000.
Mares was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, grew up in New Mexico, and enrolled as an undergraduate biology major at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in 1963, with his sights set on a career in medicine. Less than two years later, his focus had shifted to zoology, and he took his first foreign field-research trip to Mexico in 1966. Mares received an MA degree from Fort Hays Kansas State University and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an evolutionary biologist, a systematist, an explorer for unknown species of mammals, and an expert in museums.
Mares has published 12 books and more than 200 scientific papers. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, former president of the Natural Science Collections Alliance, and current president of the American Society of Mammalogists. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma and Kirkland, Washington, with his wife Lynn. In addition to his administrative work, teaching and research, he is also a screenwriter.
Mares has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Ford Foundation Fellow, and a National Chicano Fellow and has served on many national committees, as well as the Congressional Commission on the Future of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Lily Martinez
College of Professional and Continuing Studies
Program Director
lmartinez@ou.edu
Lily Martinez is the Program Director for the Laurance Reid Gas Conditioning Conference, the Gas Compressor Short Course, the Corrosion Control Course, and the Blowout Prevention School, in the Lifelong Learning department. We offer certification credits for conferences, courses, and seminars for all engineers in the oil and gas industry.
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Lisa Morales
Gallogly College of Engineering
Executive Director, Diversity and Inclusion
lmorales@ou.edu
As the Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusion for the Gallogly College of Engineering, Lisa Morales’ responsibilities include managing the Diversity Initiatives within the Gallogly College of Engineering and directing the Diversity and Inclusion Program and the Multicultural Engineering Program to include recruitment, retention, scholarships, communications, and first-year orientation as it relates to underrepresented students in the Gallogly College of Engineering. She has been working in the Gallogly College of Engineering since 2010. Prior to working in the Gallogly College of Engineering she was an Assistant Director for Diversity Enrichment Programs in Recruitment Services (2007-2010). She previously worked as an educator in the Oklahoma City Public Schools district. Lisa is also a returned Peace Corps volunteer and served in Paraguay, South America as an education volunteer (2002-2004). She received her B.S. in Education and her Master’s in Public Administration both from the University of Oklahoma.
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Paulo Moreira
MLLL
Professor
paulo.moreira@ou.edu
I was born and raised in Brazil and speak both Portuguese [my native language] and Spanish. Latin American Literature and Culture with emphasis on Brazilian and Mexican Literatures and Cultures.
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Hernan Moreno
Geography and Environmental Sustainability
Assistant Professor
moreno@ou.edu
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