Dr. Aaron Hutchison (Program Coordinator)

Dr. Hutchison was born and raised on a small farm outside of Albany, Ohio. He received a B.A. in chemistry from Cedarville College in 1998 and a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. He currently serves as an associate professor of chemistry and is the program director for forensic science at Cedarville. He also serves as president of the Creation Research Science Education Foundation and is a member of the Creation Research Society and the American Chemical Society. His primary research interests at the moment are the removal of toxic metals (such as mercury) from water and the geochemistry of the Flood.

Eric Johnson

Mr. Eric Johnson serves as the Science & Mathematics department lab technician. He earned a B.A. in chemistry while also receiving secondary education certification from Cedarville in 1988. He taught three years in Lynchburg, VA. He later worked at a polymer testing laboratory in Mentor, OH. He and his wife Shelley were married in 1995 and have two boys. He enjoys yard work and evening family time. He has been at Cedarville since 2003.

Mark Gathany

Mark Gathany serves as an assistant professor of biology and environmental science. He earned his Ph.D. in ecology from Colorado State University, an M.S. in environmental studies from Ohio University, and a B.S. from Grace College. He enjoys teaching Ecosystem Science and Principles of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) each fall and General Ecology each Spring. He and his research students investigate all things "ecological" ranging from biogeochemistry to animal population surveys. He is also interested in how society views nature and its resources, and he looks to examine those perspectives in himself and his students. To that end, Mark also serves as the faculty advisor to the student organization Pro Terra Forma - "for the beauty of the earth" - which seeks to encourage environmental stewardship around the campus and community. He currently holds memberships in the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Ecological Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America. He and his wife, Christina, have two sons.