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Daryl C. Chrzan

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

materials science and engineering, computational materials science, metals and metallic compounds, defects in solids, growth of nanostructures

Dept of Physics

physics, theoretical condensed matter, topological phase transitions, high-temperature superconductivity, organization principles enabling microscopic degrees of freedom to behave cooperatively, matter and their formation mechanisms, low dimensional quantum magnets, strongly correlated Fermi and Bose fluids

Ken Ueno

music composition, decolonizing music, noise, sound installations, music of Japan, extended vocal techniques, overtone singing, musical culture of Japan, experimental improvisation

Colleen Lye

Dept of English

postcolonial theory, marxism, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor and employment, race, poverty, inequality, economics of education, health disparities, social welfare policy

Tony M. Keaveny

Tony M. Keaveny

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

biomechanics of bone, orthopaedic biomechanics, design of artificial joints, osteoporosis, finite element modeling, clinical biomechanics

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Dept of History of Art

18th through 20th century French, 18th through 20th century French and American art, history of slavery, colonialism, race, gender, visual and material culture

Professor Danica Chen standing in front of audience with microphone in hand

Danica Chen

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

aging, stem cell, metabolism, diseases of aging

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earthquake physics, geophysical signal discovery

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, diabetes, protein phosphorylation, fundamental signal transduction pathways in cells and whole organisms, kinase, drug development, asthma, multiple forms of cancer, neurological disorders, drug addiction

Prasad Raghavendra in outdoor setting

Prasad Raghavendra

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theory(THY), optimization, complexity theory, approximation algorithms

JIP Graduation 2023

Dept of Rhetoric

Classical Studies, classical reception studies, philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Jewish intellectual thought

Jacob Steinhardt

Jacob Steinhardt

Dept of Statistics

artificial intelligence, machine learning

Stephen Collier

Stephen Collier

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urban vulnerability and resilience, insurance and climate change, Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation, infrastructure and politics, neoliberalism and governmental rationality, emergency government in the United States

David Sedlak standing in pool with sculpture to his right.

David L. Sedlak

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

fate and transport of and transformation of chemicals in the aquatic environment, water reuse and water recycling, urban water infrastructure, engineered treatment wetlands

Dept of Comparative Literature

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature

Turner with digital reconstruction of Villa Farnesina in 1512

James Grantham Turner

Dept of English

gender, sexuality, English, 16th-18th century English, Italian and French literature, art and literature, 17th century political writing, landscape and the city, Enlightenment materialism, sexuality in Renaissance Italian art and Antiquity, ecocriticism in literature and art

A person with long wavy black hair sits facing forward

Dept of Art Practice

performance art, video, sculpture, new genres, feminist and queer theory, Latin American and U.S. Chicana/Latino performance

Kristin Primus in outside environment with mosaic in background.

Dept of Philosophy

Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, 17th and 18th century philosophy

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, papyrology, Greek, Egyptian, social and economic history, late antiquity

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Dept of Economics

Haas School of Business

economics, exchange rate, lending booms, consumption, capital flows, global imbalances, external adjustment, international prices, international portfolios, financial crises, eurozone crisis

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

Henry Washington Jr.

Dept of African American Studies

19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, Black feminist theory, Black trans theory, Black visual culture and aestetics, performance theory

Cindy Looy

Dept of Integrative Biology

paleoecology, paleobotany, palynology

David H. Raulet

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biology, cancer immunology, natural killer (NK) cells, T-cell development and function, pathogens, viruses, lymphocyte receptors, microorganisms, cancer cells, tumor immunity, immunotherapy of cancer