DMI PROGRAM DIRECTORS

Dr. Fulton is an archaeologist and cultural anthropologist focusing on community identity and shared practices in the past and present. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology from the University of South Florida and her BS in Anthropology from Kent State University. She has been with UNT since Jan. 2019 and is the recipient of the DSI CLEAR Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award and the UNT Community Award.

The geographic focus of Dr. Fulton's archaeological research is the Maya Lowlands of Belize. Her current research explores how community identities affected the resilience of Classic Maya populations when faced with environmental, political, and economic change. Dr. Fulton's methodological expertise includes geochemistry, microartifact analysis, and quantitative modeling.

Dr. Fulton’s cultural research focuses on high-impact practices in higher education contexts, including in online and face-to-face courses. She’s also interested in approaches to collaboration, drawing from organizational and design anthropology.

Dr. Gravley holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Communication and as an alumna of UNT, received her M.S. in Communication Studies in 2012. Her areas of interest include professional communication, organizational communication, small group, and conflict management. Currently, she teaches Professional Communication and serves as program director of Project, Design, and Analysis program.
Dr. Gravley’s research interests center on narrative theory. She is currently working on research that explores the role of narrative in collaboration and project based learning. In the classroom, she believes that meaningful learning—the kind that becomes part of an individual, a function of the way he or she thinks and sees the world—occurs outside the classroom. To that end, she looks for real world problems for students to solve, using course concepts and experiences they have gained within the classroom.

Dr. Singh holds a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology with advanced scientific training as a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern). In addition, Dr. Singh holds an MBA with a specialization in Project Management, Entrepreneurship, and Healthcare Management from the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Singh served as a faculty member in the Division of Cardiology at UT Southwestern before joining UNT at Frisco and continues to serve there as an Adjunct Faculty. 

During his appointments at UT Southwestern, Dr. Singh has received numerous awards from the American Heart Association, including research fellowships, grants, and selection as a finalist for the 2010 Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Science Research Award.

Dr. Singh has an expertise in working with different disease models ranging from cancer, muscle, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, to immunology, and his research findings have been published in high-impact journals with over 1000 citations. Dr. Singh’s research interests include transcriptional regulation of cardiovascular and skeletal muscle response to injury, cardiac and skeletal muscle regeneration, inducible pluripotent stem cells, and cellular response to acute injury and stress.