Bridget May

Academic Credentials

B.F.A., Louisiana Tech University
M.A., Louisiana State University
Ph.D., The University of Georgia
Other study: Winterthur Museum Summer Institute, Winterthur DE; Victorian Society Summer School, Newport, RI

Biography

Other Information

Teaching Area

  • History of Interiors
  • Historic Interiors, Historic Documentation & Design
  • Historic Preservation
  • Research Methods in Interior Design

Research Interests

  • Nancy McClelland and other Women Interior Decorators
  • History of Interior Decoration
  • Interior Decorator Education
  • Colonial Revival
  • Research Methods in Interior

Dr. Bridget May teaches history and research in Marymount’s undergraduate and graduates Interior Design programs. A former chair of the department, she is a faculty sponsor of the Interior Design Alliance and belongs to the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC). In IDEC, Dr. May has held several offices and served in various capacities. She is on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Interior Design and Interiors: Architecture, Culture, and Society, where she is also Exhibition Review Editor.

Dr. May, Buie Harwood, and Curt Sherman wrote Architecture and Interior Design from Antiquity through the 18th Century: An Integrated History and Architecture and Interior Design from the 19th Century: An Integrated History. Both were awarded the Polsky Prize by ASID. Dr. May published several refereed journal articles and frequently gives national and international presentations of her research, which centers on early interior decorators and interior decoration. She has co-hosted two international conferences on interior design history.

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Julie Ries

Academic Credentials

B.S., Quinnipiac College
M.A., The George Washington University
Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University
Licensed Physical Therapist in VA

Biography

Julie Ries has been on faculty at Marymount’s Physical Therapy program since its inception. She has extensive PT clinical experience in acute care, home care, and neurological rehabilitation. She is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in rehabilitation with individuals with dementia and is active in research with this population. She has presented numerous continuing education courses and invited lectures on topics related to rehab with older adults with dementia. Dr Ries a been recognized for excellence in teaching with the Faculty Teaching Award in 2003, 2006, and 2014, and for her outstanding research endeavors with the Faculty Scholarship Award in 2010, 2019, and 2025. She was the recipient of the 2010 Excellence in Geriatric Research Award, a national award presented by the APTA’s Section on Geriatrics, for her research on clinical outcome measures for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease.

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Julie Ries has been on faculty at Marymount’s Physical Therapy program since its inception. She has extensive PT clinical experience in acute care, home care, and neurological rehabilitation. She is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in rehabilitation with individuals with dementia and is active in research with this population. She has presented numerous continuing education courses and invited lectures on topics related to rehab with older adults with dementia.

Dr Ries a been recognized by the Malek School of Health Professions for her excellence in teaching with the MSHP Faculty Teaching Award in 2003, 2006, and 2014, and for her outstanding research endeavors with the MSHP Faculty Scholarship Award in 2010 and 2019. She was the recipient of the 2010 Excellence in Geriatric Research Award, a national award presented by the APTA’s Section on Geriatrics, for her research on clinical outcome measures for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. 

 

Teaching Area

  • Foundations of Physical Therapy (Biomechanics & Basic Clinical Assessment Skills)
  • Older Adult Cognitive Issues
  • Neurological Rehabilitation

Research Interests

  • Exercise interventions for cognitive benefit in older adults with dementia
  • Rehabilitation and balance interventions for individuals with dementia
  • Education of health care providers in optimal strategies for working with individuals with dementia
  • Climbing as a therapeutic activity for individuals with Parkinson’s disease

Publications

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Elsa Schaefer

Academic Credentials

B.S., Agnes Scott College
Ph.D., Emory University
Dr. Elsa Schaefer’s Faculty Webpage

Biography

Other Information

Teaching Area

Research Interests

For the past few years, Dr. Elsa Schaefer has run a campus research group that includes Marymount students in the fun and intuitive process of epidemiological modeling. She has been able to financially support student research with funding from the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, the National Science Foundation, and Marymount’s own DISCOVER program. Her students are presenting at multiple undergraduate research conferences locally and nationally, and study more globally with a larger research group in mathematics and science here at Marymount.

Dr. Schaefer’s doctoral work was in Partial Differential Equations and Differential Geometry with applications to optical system design. She subsequently studied computational fluid dynamics, focusing on jet flows near the speed of sound. Her present interests are in computational epidemiology, and in particular disease models for cholera and tick-borne diseases. She has published research in multiple journals and books, including the Journal of the Optical Society of America, the SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, and Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering. Her past work in transonic aerodynamics and her current work in cholera modeling has enjoyed support from the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Schaefer has also been a part of several successful National Science Foundation grant proposals that have helped to bring technology and scholarships into Marymount’s Mathematics program.

She was a 2009 Honors Fellow with the University’s Honors Program.

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