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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Junko Habu

Dept of Anthropology

Japan, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, sustainability, East Asia, Jomon hunter-gatherers

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

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

Gregory W. Aponte

Gregory W. Aponte

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

health and nutrition, nutritional sciences, signaling between the gut and the brain, neuropeptides, G-protein coupled receptors

Martin Sánchez-Jankowski

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski

Dept of Sociology

crime, sociology of poverty, sociology of violence, race and ethnic relations

School of Public Health

cancer, genomics, toxicology, molecular epidemiology, exposome, leukemia, lymphoma, breast cancer, carcinogenesis

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, Biomineralization, bacterial organelles, Magnetic Nanoparticles

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

earthquake engineering, structural engineering, reinforced concrete, performance-based earthquake engineering, high-rise buildings, lifeline systems, rehabilitation (retrofitting), laboratory testing

Jere Lipps

Dept of Integrative Biology

ecology, paleontology, molecular phylogenetics, evolution of marine biotas, paleoenvironments, coral reef, Antarctic habitats, seismic histories, astrobiology, Charles Darwin

James A. Sethian

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, applied mathematics, partial differential equations, computational physics, level set Methods, computational fluid mechanics and materials sciences, fast marching methods

Dept of Film and Media

feminist theory, cultural theory, archaeology of media technology, film and modernity, film theory, psychoanalytic theory

Jay D. Keasling

Jay D. Keasling

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, metabolic engineering of microorganisms, environmentally friendly synthesis, biodegradable and recyclable polymers, production of biofuels and bioproducts, natural products

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

Dept of Bioengineering

stem cell niche engineering, tissue repair, stem cell aging and rejuvenation

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 Physics

atomic, molecular, optical physics, advanced electron microscopy, cryo-EM

Milnes with the UCBSO in Europe

music, directing, orchestral conducting technique, music ensemble

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Seismology, earthquakes, earthquake hazard mitigation, deep earth structure & dynamics, tomography, natural hazards

Eric P. Rakowski

taxation, moral philosophy, distributive justice, health care, estates & trusts

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

fluid mechanics, mechanics in computer technology, tribology in hard-disk drives, laser measurement systems, numerical simulations, static and dynamic problems in solid mechanics

Charles Hirschkind

Charles Hirschkind

Dept of Anthropology

Islam, anthropology, religious practice, media technologies, political community, Middle East, Europe

Dept of Psychology

A.I., learning, philosophy, psychology, cognitive development, theory of mind, young children, children's causal knowledge, Bayes Net formalism

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

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Ronald C. Cohen

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

climate, greenhouse gases, air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry, ozone, nitrogen oxides, CO2, clouds, Atmospheric Aerosol

Deniz Göktürk

German literature, German cinema, transnational cinemas, German-Turkish-European-American intersections in cinema, performance and spectatorship and reception, intertextuality and intermediality and translation, the politics and poetics of migration and globalization, urban imaginaries and mediations of place, theories of diversity and nationalism, comedy and community, modern rituals of regulating identity and authority and mobility

Joseph Orenstein in lab

Joseph Orenstein

Dept of Physics

optical properties of quantum materials, magnetism, superconductivity, spin transport