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headshot Adib Kanafani Adib Kanafani
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
transportation economics, transportation planning, transportation systems analysis, aviation policy and planning, urban and regional planning, air transportation
Abigail De Kosnik Abigail De Kosnik
Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
new media, performance studies, performance theory, performance, media studies, fan studies, digital culture, social networks, film, television, social media, Internet culture, digital humanities, data science, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality, nationality, transnationalism, Filipino American studies, Asian American studies, archives, cultural memory, piracy, distribution
Allen Goldstein Allen Goldstein
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
global change, air pollution, environmental science, biogeochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, indoor air quality
Nicholas Mathew Nicholas Mathew
Dept of Music
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
Sylvia Guendelman Sylvia Guendelman
School of Public Health
public health, maternal & child health, health and social behavior, health policy and management, specialty area in multicultural health
Daniela Kaufer standing with part of a human skull nearby Daniela Kaufer
Dept of Integrative Biology
Dept of Neuroscience
neuroscience, aging, dementia, stress, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, blood brain barrier, resilience, trauma, psychedelics, glia, myelin
Headshot of Jeffrey Neaton Jeffrey Neaton
Dept of Physics
condensed matter theory, Materials Physics, nanoscience, physical chemistry, Electronic Structure Theory, Transport, Hard-Soft Interfaces, Complex Oxides, renewable energy, energy conversion
Alison Gopnik Alison Gopnik
Dept of Psychology
A.I., learning, philosophy, psychology, cognitive development, theory of mind, young children, children's causal knowledge, Bayes Net formalism
Darlene D. Francis Darlene D. Francis
School of Public Health
biological basis of health disparities, developmental programming, stress, environment x gene interactions, animal models, biopsychosocial approach to health and well-being
Image courtesy of Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century Stephanie Syjuco
Dept of Art Practice
art, sculpture, photography, archives, social practice, craft, activism, material culture, ceramics, digital culture, zines, alternative publishing, libraries, museums, museum display, postcolonial studies, Asian American studies, empire, textiles, ethnography, 1904 World's Fair, Filipino and Filipino American studies, whiteness studies, camouflage, DIY culture
William Lester, Jr. William A. Lester, Jr.
Dept of Chemistry
theoretical and physical chemistry, advances in basic theory, computational methods, study of molecular electronic structure, quantum Monte Carlo method, Born-Oppenheimer approximation
Denise Herd Denise Herd
School of Public Health
public health, epidemiology, specialty area in multicultural health, behaviorial science, social movements, race and ethnicity, medical anthropology, American popular culture
Seth M. Holmes Seth M. Holmes
Dept of Anthropology
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
immigration and migration, medical anthropology with foci on social theory and ethnography, social studies of medicine and science, social difference related to race, social difference related to socioeconomic status, social difference related to citizenship, social difference related to gender, social difference related to sexuality, the naturalization and normalization of social hierarchies and health disparities, social suffering and symbolic violence, urban and rural Latin America and North America, population health with focus on global health, population health with focus on health disparities, population health with focus on social determinants of health
Ajay Pillarisetti setting at desk with computer monitor and microphone in background Ajay Pillarisetti
School of Public Health
energy use, health effects of air pollution, climate change, exposure assessment, global health, health impacts of energy use, heat and health, air pollution measurement, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research
Glynda Hull Glynda Hull
School of Education
language, culture, society, education, literacy, writing in and out of schools, multi-media technology, new literacies, adult learning, work, community, school, university collaborations
George F. Smoot George F. Smoot
Dept of Physics
cosmology, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, observing our galaxy, the cosmic background radiation, ground-based radio-telescope observations, balloon-borne instrumentation, satellite experiments, the NASA cosmic background
Photo of Jovan Scott Lewis Jovan Scott Lewis
Dept of Geography
Jamaica and the USA, constructions and inffrastructures of poverty, inequality, race (blackness), economy, reparations
Charisma Acey Charisma Acey
Dept of City & Regional Planning
water, sanitation, basic services delivery, food justice, urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, environmental justice, urban governance, participatory planning, community-based development, international development, development planning, sustainable development, African studies
headshot of Mark Hansen Mark Hansen
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
transportation economics, policy and planning, air transportation, public transportation
Andy Martin in lab Andy Martin
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
26S proteasome, Ubiquitin-Proteasome System, AAA+ ATPases, Molecular motor proteins
S. Shankar Sastry S. Shankar Sastry
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
embedded and cyberphysical systems, artificial intelligence, AR/VR, computer science, robotics, arial robots, cybersecurity, cyber defense, homeland defense, nonholonomic systems, control of hybrid systems, sensor networks, interactive visualization, robotic telesurgery, rapid prototyping
Meredith Fowlie Meredith Fowlie
Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics
energy markets, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, air pollution
Jonathan Wurtele Jonathan Wurtele
Dept of Physics
physics, stability, plasma theory, advanced accelerator concepts, intense laser-plasma interaction, the basic equilibrium, radiation properties of intense charged particle beams, simulation and the development of proof-of-principle experiments
headshot of Joseph S. Shapiro Joseph S. Shapiro
Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics
Dept of Economics
trade and the environment, water pollution, Clean Water Act, air pollution, climate change
headshot of Christine Wildsoet smiling Christine Wildsoet
School of Optometry
optometry, vision science, myopia, refractive errors, accommodation, aberrations, eye growth, ocular therapeutics, optical myopia control, pharmacological myopia control, ocular tissue engineering, ocular stem cells, basic and clinical research with social implications
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