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Egyptian Museum Turin, facsimile of the Book of the Dead of Iuefankh

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Egyptology, Egyptian, afrofuturism, magic, demonology, digital humanities, 3D modeling, virtual reality, prison higher education, ritual and religion

Weihong Bao

Dept of Film and Media

late 19th century visual and performance culture, Chinese language cinema, transnational genre cinema, comparative media history and theory, propaganda theory and history(10988)

photo of Professor Smart

opera and politics, music and data, music and language, theater, gender, opera, performance, singers, voice, staging of opera, 19th century music, 19th century Italy

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

ancient Mediterranean, Ethiopic studies

Gabor A. Somorjai

Gabor A. Somorjai

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, catalysis, surface science, low-energy electron diffraction, solid state chemistry, macroscopic surface phenomena, adhesion, lubrication, biocompatibility, bonding, reactivity at solid surfaces, scanning tunneling

Elizabeth standing in the Gill Tract Community Garden wearing a red shirt holding a basket of produce

Elizabeth Hoover

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

food sovereignty, heirloom seeds, prescribed fire, community based participatory research, environmental justice, food justice, environmental health, wild land firefighters, international fire training

Robert Thomas Knight

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, language, physiology, memory, attention, psychology, working memory, neuropsychology, human prefrontal cortex, neural mechanisms of cognitive processing, sensory gating, sustained attention, ad novelty detection

Dept of Anthropology

social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

William (Bill) D. Thompson

Dept of Psychology

cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, learning, Problem solving, Reasoning, decision-making, Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, machine learning, computational modeling, collective decision-making, social networks

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Egyptology

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

digital humanities, intellectual history, Sumerian, cuneiform, Mesopotamia

Margaret Larkin

Margaret Larkin

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Near Eastern studies

Dan Stamper-Kurn in laboratory

Dan Stamper-Kurn

Dept of Physics

atomic physics, the use of ultra-cold neutral atoms, studies of microscopic and macroscopic quantum phenomena, cavity quantum electrodynamics, Bose-Einstein condensation, precision and quantum measurement

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

geometric and solid modeling, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU), CAD/CAM, computational geometry, computer graphics and visualization, tool path planning, additive manufacturing, computer vision, Deep Learning

Dept of Architecture

Cold war history, California Counterculture, History of Exhibitions, Architectural history, Indigenous Australian art, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biology, cell motility, the role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion, shape change, actin filament assembly, bacterial and viral pathogens

Dept of Physics

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

solid-state devices and technology, quantum technologies

Photo of Professor Barbara Laraia

School of Public Health

nutrition, obesity, Food Insecurity, Perinatal Health, diabetes

Don Tilley in his office

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic, organometallic, polymer and materials chemistry, transition metal compounds, catalysis, new chemical transformations, advanced solid state materials, renewable energy, solar fuels

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

cement chemistry, advanced characterization methods for cementitious materials, low-carbon concrete, supplementary cementitious materials, calcined clay technology, LCA of cement-based materials

Ali Javey sitting in lab with equipment in background

Ali Javey

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

nanotechnology, low power electronics, flexible electronics and sensors, nanofabrication, energy harvesting and conversion, programmable matter

Ori Ganor

Dept of Physics

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

Katherine Newman

Dept of Sociology

Goldman School of Public Policy

low wage labor markets, social mobility, inequality

Per-Olof Persson

Per-Olof Persson

Dept of Mathematics

applied mathematics, numerical methods, computational fluid and solid mechanics