Niek Veldhuis Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures digital humanities, intellectual history, Sumerian, cuneiform, Mesopotamia
Sofia Villas-Boas Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making
Bryan Wagner Dept of English community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships
Rhona S. Weinstein Dept of Psychology community psychology, educational inequality and the achievement gap, teacher expectations and self-fulfilling prophecies, classroom and school reform
Matthew Welch Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biology, cell motility, the role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion, shape change, actin filament assembly, bacterial and viral pathogens
K. Birgitta Whaley Dept of Chemistry quantum information and quantum computation, control and simulation of complex quantum systems, quantum effects in biological systems, quantum physics, quantum mechanics
Michelle Wilkerson School of Education K-12 math and science education, science education, mathematics education, computing education, design-based research, computers in K-12 education, data literacy, data science education
Laurie Wilkie Dept of Anthropology anthropology, historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations; North America, Northern California, Caribbean. Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic community
Winnie Wong Dept of Rhetoric art and law; modern and contemporary art; Chinese art; Qing empire; Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta
Lisa Wymore Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies dance, Choreography, Multi-Media Performance, Dance Theater
Liesl Yamaguchi Dept of French poetics, linguistics, literary theory, 19th century literature, modern poetry
Peidong Yang Dept of Chemistry materials chemistry, solid state chemistry, nanoscience, energy science, semiconductor nanowires, Nanophotonics, artificial photosynthesis, electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis.
Damon Young Dept of Film and Media Dept of French film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory
Bin Yu Dept of Statistics machine learning, trustworthy data science and AI, interdisciplinary research in biomedicine, neuroscience, and climate science.
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