Research faculty members are non-tenure track faculty who primarily support the Department’s mission of research.  These faculty members work with our tenure-track faculty members, postdocs, scientists, and graduate students in the lab to further knowledge in their areas of expertise.  Research professors may informally advise graduate students in their dissertation research and can be members of dissertation examination committees for these students.  Writing grant proposals, journal articles, books, and other scientific papers as well as traveling to professional scientific conferences and meetings are some of the ways our research professors spread the results they discover in their research pursuits.