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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Elizabeth standing in the Gill Tract Community Garden wearing a red shirt holding a basket of produce

Elizabeth Hoover

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

food sovereignty, heirloom seeds, prescribed fire, community based participatory research, environmental justice, food justice, environmental health, wild land firefighters, international fire training

Borivoje Nikolic

Borivoje Nikolic

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

digital integrated circuits, VLSI implementation of communications, signal processing systems

Jacob Yates

School of Optometry

optometry

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

igneous petrology, geochemistry, volcanology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

neurobiology, RNA splicing, synaptic plasticity, psychedelic biology, electrophysiology, two-photon imaging, molecular genetics, molecular biology

Jeffrey Q. Chambers

Dept of Geography

forests, climate change, trees, tropical forests, remote sensing, Drought, hurricanes, fires

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical biology, microbiology, natural product biosynthesis, enzyme discovery and characterization, drug discovery

photo of Amitai Shenhav

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, motivation, decision-making, executive functions, computational modeling

School of Information

design, human-computer interaction, user experience research

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Dept of Sociology

race and ethnicity, sociology of knowledge and culture, Latinx politics and identify, political sociology, Du Boisian sociology, ethnographic methods, qualitative methods, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

James W. Rector

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

geoarchaeology, geophysics, acoustics, Seismology, machine learning, energy, carbon capture and storage, oil and gas

Dept of Anthropology

historical archaeology, African American archaeology, historic preservation, heritage conservation, community based participatory research

Dept of Integrative Biology

hormones and behavior, neuroendocrinology of reproduction

Peter B. Zinoman

Dept of History

Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese literature, Southeast Asian history, communism, nationalism, colonialism

Christopher Kutz

Christopher Kutz

criminal law, moral, legal and political philosophy

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

bacterial envelope properties, biogenesis, stress responses

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

environmental microbiology, biodegradation of environmental contaminants, microbial carbon cycling, molecular tools for microbial ecology, metagenomics, biological hazardous waste treatment, bioremediation of groundwater pollutants

William J. Drummond

School of Journalism

politics, journalism, reporting, national security, freelancing in both print and radio

Kenneth A. Polse

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, tear mixing, epithelial barrier function, contact lens extended wear

Dept of Economics

international trade, economic geography

Omar Wasow

Dept of Political Science

American politics, race and ethnic politics

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earth & planetary science

Brian Staskawicz in lab holding wheat stem

Brian Staskawicz

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

biotechnology, plant and microbial biology

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

environmental and resource economics, remote sensing, climate change, water resources, health effects of air pollution

Asta Mønsted standing in outside setting

Dept of Scandinavian

Greenlandic Inuit, archaeology, oral history, Arctic, indigenous knowledge, colonialism and globalization