Biophysics of the Senses

Tennille D. Presley, PhD is a tenured Associate Professor of Physics at Winston Salem State University (WSSU). She obtained her BS degree in Interdisciplinary Physics from North Carolina A & T State University, and acquired her MS and PhD degrees in Biophysics from The Ohio State University. While at The Ohio State University, she became the first African American to graduate from the Biophysics program, received the Young Investigator Award and the Best Advanced Research Award. Following her PhD, Dr Presley completed her post-doctoral training at Wake Forest University in the Department of Physics and the Translational Science Center. Since joining WSSU in 2010, she has been the recipient of the Research Initiation Program for two years, the Preparing Critical Faculty for the Future Program Grant funded by the National Science Foundation and the Co-Director for the Provost's Scholars Science Immersion Program. Furthermore, she has been a part of the National Institutes of Health Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged (PRIDE) in Health Related Research division of Functional and Applied Genomics of Blood Disorders. Most recently, Dr Presley was Visiting Faculty at Brookhaven National Laboratory and a recipient of the Buckeyes Under 40 Award. She has published more than a dozen articles in free radical research. Her current research involves investigating the effect of thermodynamics on free radicals and proteins in a state of vascular dysfunction.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Author biography
Units: the essential tools to all understanding
Mechanics of the body
How physics generates order in the body?
Electrical properties of the body
Free radicals
Cardiac conductivity
The human mind
Physics of nutrition, exercise, and disease
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