Rate My Professor Cindy White

White's academic interests and research specializations include protein structure and function, transcriptional regulation in chromatin, X-ray crystallography, and molecular biology techniques. During her doctoral studies, she investigated nucleosome core particle structures and internucleosome interactions. At Harding, her projects involve characterizing the fat mobilizing substance (FMS) in urine from fasting humans, rats, and lipodystrophy patients using HPLC, and developing wastewater treatment methods for the International Space Station via photocatalysis with titanium dioxide and UV light to combat biofilms, funded by the NASA Space Grant Consortium. Select publications are "ZnO nanostructures by hot water treatment for photocatalytic bacterial disinfection" (MRS Advances, 2022), "Nucleosome Core Particles Containing a Poly(dA · dT) Sequence Element Exhibit a Locally Distorted DNA Structure" (Journal of Molecular Biology, 2006), "Structure of the yeast nucleosome core particle reveals fundamental changes in internucleosome interactions" (EMBO Journal, 2001), and several others on nucleosome structures from 2001 to 2004. She actively mentors undergraduate researchers, with student projects presented at events like the NASA National Space Grant Celebration in Washington, D.C. (2020) and Arkansas INBRE conferences. White contributes to institutional service as a member of the Faculty Welfare Committee (2019-2022) and Vice-President/President Elect on the Faculty Leadership Council for Arts and Sciences.