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Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

fluid mechanics, turbulence, wetlands, imaging, plankton, sediment transport

Professor Fleming in Photosynthesis Lab

Graham R. Fleming

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, proteins, chemical and biological dynamics in the condensed phase, ultrafast spectroscopy, liquids, solutions, glasses, photosynthetic proteins, role of solvents in chemical reactions, electronic energy transfer, electron transfer, regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of History

History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization

Dept of History

Marianne Constable

Marianne Constable

Dept of Rhetoric

law and language, legal rhetoric and philosophy, social and political thought, Anglo-American legal history, continental philosophy, law and society

Dept of Statistics

machine learning, variational inference, Bayesian methods, robustness quantification, applied statistics

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

evolution, fungi, phylogenomics, mycology, population genomics, ecology

Jonathan Rittle

Jonathan Rittle

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, crystallography, spectroscopy

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Kristen Whissel

Dept of Film and Media

Cinema and technological change, cinema and modernity, computer-generated images and contemporary cinema, digital visual effects, stereoscopic 3D cinema and media, the history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema, cinema and globalization, cinema and the environment/elements

William H. Miller

William H. Miller

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, chemical dynamics, quantum mechanical and semiclassical theories, dynamical chemical processes at the molecular level, photodissociation, femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, calculations of rate constants for chemical reactions

Hitoshi Murayama

Dept of Physics

physics, particle physics, the universe, fundamental constituents of matter, Higgs boson, anti-matter, neutrino oscillations, finite value of the cosmological constant, triple coincidence of energy densities

Mathias Kondolf wearing hat and holding notebook at the Bill Williams River in Arizona

G. Mathias Kondolf

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

environmental planning, fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, flood risk management, river restoration, urban rivers, environmental impact assessment, river corridor management, sediment management, hydropower, strategic dam planning, integrating energy planning and river management

Madison Douglas standing in streambed from website

Madison Douglas

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

landscape evolution, permafrost environments, periglacial geomorphology, Earth's surface, sediment transport

Nicholas Mathew

Nicholas Mathew

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music in Europe and its colonies, music and politics, the political economy of sound media, pianos and pianism, music and materialism, Beethoven, Haydn, music in Vienna, London, aesthetics, piano performance, historical performance practices

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

tissue biomechanics, biomaterial science, fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, orthopedic polymers for total joint replacement, synthetic cartilage

Adrian Lee

Dept of Physics

physics

Archaeologists confer at the Yarumela site in Honduras

Rosemary A. Joyce

Dept of Anthropology

Latin America, anthropology, cultural heritage, gender, archaeology, sexuality, museums, ethics, Central America, feminism

Bin Yu

Dept of Statistics

machine learning, trustworthy data science and AI, interdisciplinary research in biomedicine, neuroscience, climate science

Nitash Balsara in his lab

Nitash P. Balsara

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

electrochemical energy conversion, polymer properties, small angle scattering, nanoscale and microscale sciences

Cecil S. Giscombe

Cecil S. Giscombe

Dept of English

Creative Writing

Lucia Lohmann with specimens from the Herbaria collection

Dept of Integrative Biology

ecology, evolution, biogeography, conservation, neotropical biodiversity

Matthew B. Francis

Matthew B. Francis

Dept of Chemistry

materials chemistry, drug delivery, organic chemistry, Protein modification, artificial photosynthesis, water purification

Adam Arkin

Dept of Bioengineering

Systems and Synthetic Biology, Environmental Microbiology of Bacteria and Viruses, bioenergy, Biomedicine, Bioremediation, space, green and sustainable manufacturing, sustainability

Yasunori Nomura

Dept of Physics

quantum gravity, cosmology, Theoretical Particle Physics, quantum information

Christopher Kutz

Christopher Kutz

criminal law, moral, legal and political philosophy