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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Wenbin Lu

Dept of Astronomy

astronomy

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

drinking water, fuel-efficient stoves, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, developing countries, buildings energy efficiency

Dr. Worrell with CAL Prep Students

Frank C. Worrell

School of Education

development, education, cognition, academic talent development, adolescence, African American, at-risk youth, English-speaking Caribbean, ethnic identity, gifted, psychosocial development, racial identity, school psychology, teacher effectiveness, Trinidad and Tobago, time perspective

School of Education

development, education, cognition, human development, development of social judgments and action, the development of moral reasoning, children’s conceptions of authority, rules in school settings, culture and social development

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, electronic structure calculations, development of novel theories and algorithms, quantum mechanics

Michael Nachman

Michael Nachman

Dept of Integrative Biology

population genetics, evolution, genomics, mammalian evolution

Raveevarn Choksombatchai

Raveevarn Choksombatchai

Dept of Architecture

architecture, landscape design, space design, media and its effect upon design through filmic techniques and video investigations

Cati V. de los Ríos

Cati V. de los Ríos

School of Education

literacy, bi/multilingual education

Amanda Brewster

Amanda Brewster

School of Public Health

coordination of health care and social services, performance improvement, implementation of new practices

Alex Saum-Pascual

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

digital literature, Transatlantic Literature, Spanish, Spain, electronic literature, contemporary literature, digital humanities, new media, Latin America

ARE PhD students and Sofia Villas-Boas

Sofia Villas-Boas

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making

Andrea A. diSessa

School of Education

education, cognition, conceptual development, science education, design of technology for education, computational literacies

Ann Keller

School of Public Health

political science, health politics, public policy, public administration, disaster response, expertise in public decision-making

Ori Ganor

Dept of Physics

string (and M-) theory, quantum field theory, mathematical physics

Wally Wang standing in front of a white board

Jen-Chywan (Wally) Wang

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

steroid hormones, glucocorticoids, molecular physiology, Metabolic Diseases, Type 2 diabetes, cellular signaling, factors regulated glucose/insulin homeostasis, fatty liver

Maya L. Petersen

School of Public Health

Computational Precision Health Program

causal inference, precision health, targeted learning, HIV, global health, pandemics

John Battles pointing out changes in forest composition during a field trip at Blodgett Forest Research Station.

John J. Battles

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

forest ecology, sustainability, ecosystem dynamics, disturbance ecology, tree demography, carbon ecology and storage, Sierra Nevada, northern forest

Elisabeth Semel

Elisabeth Semel

capital punishment, criminal law, criminal procedure

Dylan John Riley

Dylan John Riley

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, comparative historical sociology, social theory

Grace Gu

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Composites, additive manufacturing, in-situ monitoring and process control, artificial intelligence and machine learning, bioinspired materials

Sanjam Garg

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

cryptography, cybersecurity, theoretical computer science

School of Social Welfare

adolescent violence and victimization, polyvictimization rates among vulnerable adolescents, bullying involvement roles and mental health, sexual orientation and gender identity microaggressions, impact of family-level microaggressions and microaffirmations on mental health, disability, anti-ableism

Carlos Bustamante

Carlos Bustamante

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, structural characterization of nucleo-protein assemblies, single molecule fluorescence microscopy, DNA-binding molecular motors, the scanning force microscope, prokaryotes

Lu Chen, MD, PhD, FARVO

School of Optometry

lymph and blood vascular biology, corneal inflammation, transplantation immunity, glaucoma

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

agricultural and environmental and resource economics, public and regulatory policy, political economy, bargaining theory, futures markets, law and economics, industrial organization and antitrust analysis