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Dr. Chris Schell sets a wildlife camera trap in the East Bay, CA. His lab uses these devices and other techniques (e.g., GPS collars, roadkill collections) to monitor how wildlife populations adapt to life in cities.

Christopher Schell

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

behavioral ecology, urban ecology, One Health, social-ecological dynamics, environmental justice

Jonas Wellendorf

Jonas Wellendorf

Dept of Scandinavian

Old Norse language and literature, Scandinavian mythology, Scandinavian cultural history (Viking Age and Middle ages)

School of Public Health

maternal and child health

Kristie Boering in her UC Berkeley laboratory with graduate student Katie Mar

Kristie Boering

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

physical chemistry, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, ozone, earth and planetary science, isotopic compositions of atmospheric trace gases, stratospheric ozone, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, molecular hydrogen, methane

Tom McEnaney in outside setting

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, media studies, radio, 20th century American literature, architecture, linguistic anthropology, digital humanities

Christine Philliou

Christine Philliou

Dept of History

Mediterranean, Modern Greece and Turkey, Middle East, Ottoman Empire political and social history, Turkey and Greece as parts of the post-Ottoman world

William Dow

Dept of Demography

School of Public Health

health economics, global health, economic demography

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

immigration and migration, medical anthropology with foci on social theory and ethnography, social studies of medicine and science, social difference related to race, social difference related to socioeconomic status, social difference related to citizenship, social difference related to gender, social difference related to sexuality, the naturalization and normalization of social hierarchies and health disparities, social suffering and symbolic violence, urban and rural Latin America and North America, population health with focus on global health, population health with focus on health disparities, population health with focus on social determinants of health

Qiang Zhou

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry of HIV gene expression, transcriptional elongation, Tat activation, stage of transcriptional elongation, HIV replication, anti-HIV therapy

Damon Young standing in front of book shelves full of reading material

Damon Young

Dept of Film and Media

film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory

Avishay Tal

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theory(THY), complexity theory, analysis of Boolean functions, randomness in computation, quantum computation

Prasad Raghavendra in outdoor setting

Prasad Raghavendra

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

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

Ryan Tibshirani giving a whiteboard talk

Ryan Tibshirani

Dept of Statistics

statistical computing, applications in public health, high-dimensional data analysis, nonparametric inference, artificial intelligence, machine learning

HEARTs Research Group

Amani Nuru-Jeter

School of Public Health

health inequities, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic position, stress and health, place and health, social determinants of health, cardiometabolic risk, birth outcomes

Jenny S. Guadamuz

School of Public Health

health inequities, pharmaceutical policy, health policy, access to healthcare, immigrant health

Katharine Hammond

S. Katharine Hammond

School of Public Health

public health, environmental health sciences

Irene Chen

Computational Precision Health Program

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

machine learning, personalized medicine and healthcare systems, global health equity, precision health

School of Public Health

public health, environmental health science

andreja novakovic

Andreja Novakovic

Dept of Philosophy

19th and 20th century European philosophy, G.W.F. Hegel

Dept of Film and Media

media studies, computer graphics, history of technology, Science and Technology studies, queer theory, new media, art and technology

artificial intelligence, law and technology, intellectual property law, contemporary art and law, gender and sexuality

Michelle Wilkerson

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

Dept of Astronomy

machine learning, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, time-domain astronomy, data-driven discovery

Michael Iarocci in outside environmental setting

Michael Iarocci

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

modern Spanish literature and culture, critical theory, geopolitics of literature, aesthetics, transatlantic Hispanic studies, theory of the lyric, visual culture

Emily Ozer

School of Public Health

participatory research, community-engaged research/scholarship, mental health, public health, health and social behavior, clinical and community psychology, adolescent development, school-based health promotion