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Erin Kerrison Erin Michelle Turner Kerrison
School of Social Welfare
crime, criminal justice, drug control, gender, health disparities, inequality, law, mass incarceration, mental health, mixed methods, policing, policy, poverty, prisons, punishment, race, risk, reentry, substance abuse, trauma, violence, race and gender, artificial intelligence, data science, social work and education, social work, public impact research/scholarship, social justice research
Jennifer Doudna holding an model of CRISPR. Jennifer A. Doudna
Dept of Chemistry
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
RNA machines, hepatitis C virus, RNA interference, ribosomes, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing
Laura E. Pérez Laura E. Pérez
Dept of Ethnic Studies
Chicana/Latina feminist & queer literary, visual, performance arts, US women of color thought, decolonial aestetics and decolonial spiritualities
Edward Miguel Edward Miguel
Dept of Economics
Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water
Daniel McKinsey Daniel McKinsey
Dept of Physics
dark matter, noble gases, cryogenics, high voltages, particle physics, astrophysics, low temperature physics, detector physics, neutrinos
Philip B. Stark Philip B. Stark
Dept of Statistics
elections, astrophysics, law, statistics, litigation, causal inference, inverse problems, geophysics, uncertainty quantification, educational technology, soil science, race and gender bias and discrimination, nonparametrics, climate, natural disasters, sustainable food systems, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research, research in the public interest, active transportation, earthquake hazard mitigation, natural hazards
Molly Van Houweling Molly Van Houweling
School of Law
intellectual property, technology policy
Prof. Kenneth Bamberger Kenneth A. Bamberger
School of Law
technology, government regulations, corporate compliance
Andy Martin in lab Andy Martin
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
26S proteasome, Ubiquitin-Proteasome System, AAA+ ATPases, Molecular motor proteins
headshot of Eric Rakowski Eric P. Rakowski
School of Law
taxation, moral philosophy, distributive justice, health care, estates & trusts
Christopher Tomlins Christopher Tomlins
School of Law
headshot of Katherine Newman Katherine Newman
Dept of Sociology
Goldman School of Public Policy
low wage labor markets, social mobility, inequality
Victoria Plaut Victoria Plaut
School of Law
diversity, culture, inclusion
headshot of Ian Agol Ian Agol
Dept of Mathematics
topology of 3-manifolds, interaction hyperbolic geometry, low-dimensional topology
Alex Filippenko Alex Filippenko
Dept of Astronomy
supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, expansion of the universe
Simo Mäkiharju in lab setting Simo Mäkiharju
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
experimental fluid dynamics, fluid dynamics, Cavitation, multiphase flow, drag reduction, ocean renewable energy, particle image velocimetry, Time-Resolved X-Ray Densitometry, Droplet and particle transport
Peter B. Zinoman Peter Zinoman
Dept of History
Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese literature, Southeast Asian history, communism, nationalism, colonialism
Abe smiling while standing by an oak tree near the music department building. Marié Abe
Dept of Music
sound and space, ethnography, human geography, sound studies, music and social movements, affect and the body, Japanese popular performing arts, critical ocean studies, public ethnomusicology
Niklaus Largier sitting in office Niklaus Largier
Dept of Comparative Literature
Dept of German
theology, anthropology and literature, literature and the visual arts, philosophical anthropology, ritual and religion, religious practice, literature
Katrin Wehrheim Katrin Wehrheim
Dept of Mathematics
low-dimensional topology, symplectic topology, geometry/topology
Joshua Bloom Joshua Bloom
Dept of Astronomy
machine learning, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, time-domain astronomy, data-driven discovery
Benjamin Porter Benjamin Porter
Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures
archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, Middle East, Arid Environments, Heritage, tourism, museum studies
Laura C. Nelson photo dated 2023 Laura C. Nelson
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
gender and medicine and politics, breast cancer in South Korea, cultural impacts of ultra-low fertility, demographic undertow, structures on cultural temporality and anti-poverty policies in the U.S. and South Korea
head shot of James Hurley James Hurley
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Structural Biology, reconstitution, membrane biology, autophagy, HIV, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy
Joseph Napoli Joseph L. Napoli
Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
metabolism, nutritional biochemistry, fat-soluble vitamins, retinoids, retinoic acid, retinol, vitamin A, vitamin D, analytical biochemistry
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