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Dept of English

linguistics, English, poetry, meter, rhyme, alliteration, textsetting, phonological theory, English grammar and usage

intellectual property, privacy, copyright, artists' rights, free expression, notice and takedown, free and open source licensing, defensive patent licensing, DMCA, patent, how technical and policy design affect privacy and other social values

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biogeochemistry, iron reduction, metals and contaminants, soil aggregates, selenium kinetics of organic matter degradation, nitrate reduction, soil and environmental biogeophysics, biogeochemical cycles, fate and transport of nutrients, sulfate reduction, wetland soils, littoral sediments, spatial variation in biogeochemical processes

Britt Koskella in the greenhouse

Dept of Integrative Biology

Bacteriophage, Microbiome, plant-pathogen interactions, disease ecology, agricultural sustainability, Environmental Microbiology of Bacteria and Viruses, plant microbiome, evolutionary ecology

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Transnational and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, cultural studies, Commodity Cultures, Visual and Material Cultures of Religion, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies

Charles Chip Sullivan

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

garden history, symbolism, creative and imagination development, perceptual engagements, inclusive methods and mediums to express landscapes

Dept of Ethnic Studies

critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities

Dept of Psychology

cognition, human brain function, development

Dept of Neuroscience

neuroscience, Optogenetics, dopamine, motivation, reward, electrophysiological techniques

Arthur Middleton during field work on Trident Plateau at the southeast corner of Yellowstone National Park.

Arthur Middleton

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

wildlife, biodiversity, ecology, conservation

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks

Dept of Demography

Dept of Sociology

culture, population, social action, intentions, Africa, gender, fertility, marriage

Charles Marshall sitting between skulls of T. rex and a giant extinct marine Mesozoic monster

Charles Marshall

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Dept of Integrative Biology

paleontology

Mt. Seorak, 2021

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean literature and culture, comparative literature, critical theory, marxism, posthumanism, psychoanalysis

Dylan Penningroth

Dylan Penningroth

Dept of History

African American history, U.S. socio-legal history

School of Education

development, education, cognition, human development, development of social judgments and action, the development of moral reasoning, children’s conceptions of authority, rules in school settings, culture and social development

Christopher Fletcher

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer architecture & engineering

Onja Razafindratsima surrounded by trees

Onja Razafindratsima

Dept of Integrative Biology

tropical ecology, community ecology, plant-animal interactions, primatology, biodiversity

Dept of Integrative Biology

biomechanics, insects, invertebrate functional morphology, fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, marine animals, filtration, gliding vertebrates

An image of Dr. Lofgren standing outdoors

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

comparative genomics, bioinformatics, ecology, mycology

Ronald Dahl

School of Public Health

adolescence, brain development, behavioral and emotional health, pubertal maturation, affective neuroscience, social neuroscience

Eva Nogales in lab

Eva Nogales

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cryo-EM, biochemistry, complex biological assemblies, structure and regulation of the cytoskeleton, microtubule dynamics, human transcriptional initiation machinery, epigenetics, gene silencing, biophysics

Joe Hellerstein

Joseph M. Hellerstein

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer science, database systems, distributed systems

Evan Miller

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, biophysics, Structural Biology

Dept of Art Practice

photography, contemporary art, Art Pedagogy, performance, postcolonial studies, gender, queer, trans studies, contemporary African Art, South Asian Art, art of the Global South, global modernisms

Dept of Anthropology

media, music, Indigenous Australia, ethnographic film, cinema, urban studies, fire ecology