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Sabeeha Merchant

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

chloroplast, photosynthesis, algae, trace metals, genomics, synthetic biology, designer lipids, Chlamydomonas, Auxenochlorella, Dunaliella

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Ronald C. Cohen

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

climate, greenhouse gases, air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry, ozone, nitrogen oxides, CO2, clouds, Atmospheric Aerosol

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, computation

Jake Kosek

Dept of Geography

cultural politics of nature and difference, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, critical race theory, critical cartography, biopolitics, human and the non-human, environmental politics

Kathleen Donegan

Kathleen Donegan

Dept of English

Colonial America, early America, Native America, early Caribbean

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Statistics

evolution, molecular evolution, population genetics, human variation, human genetics, phylogenetics, applied statistics, genetics, evolutionary processes, evolutionary biology

Robert S. Zucker

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

synaptic transmission, cellular neurophysiology: synaptic biophysics, properties of neural circuits, photolysis, vital dyes of vesicle membrane, electrophysiological techniques, neuromodulator

Lange faculty portrait

Henrike C. Lange

Dept of History of Art

art, architecture, literature, afterlife of antiquity, middle ages & Renaissance / early modern age, Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, Botticelli, Raphael, 19th and 20th century historiography, Aby Warburg, total solar eclipses, theology, creativity and interdisciplinarity

School of Education

artificial intelligence, technology, learning, mathematics, science, education, science teaching, gender equity, design of learning environments

Dorian Liepmann

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

bioengineering, mechanical engineering, bioMEMS, biosensors, microfluid dynamics, experimental biofluid dynamics, hemodynamics, valvular heart disease, cardiac flows, arterial flows

Enrique Iglesia

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, catalytic materials, heterogeneous catalysis, chemical reaction engineering, methane and biomass coversion processes, refining processes, hydrogen generation, alkane activation deoxygenatiion and desulfurization catalysis, zeolites

Professor Yaniv Konchitchki in the Classroom

Yaniv Konchitchki

Haas School of Business

Monetary economics, macroeconomics, macro-finance, Financial-based solutions to world’s grand challenges, capital markets research, financial accounting, FinTech, financial technology and innovation, financial statement analysis, asset pricing, macro-accounting

William Lester, Jr.

William A. Lester, Jr.

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical and physical chemistry, advances in basic theory, computational methods, study of molecular electronic structure, quantum Monte Carlo method, Born-Oppenheimer approximation

Kevin J. O'Brien

Dept of Political Science

social movements, Chinese politics, peasant politics

School of Public Health

public health, bioethics, patient autonomy

Jonathan Glater

Jonathan Glater

education law, social justice, racial justice

Daena Funahashi

Daena Funahashi

Dept of Anthropology

Political anthropology, democratic theory, critical theory, Crisis of Legitimacy, stress, Burnout, death, the uncanny, economy of excess, scientific authority, Nordic Welfare, Southeast Asia

Nasser Zakariya

Dept of Rhetoric

science and narrative and documentary, history and philosophy of mathematics and physics

Dept of Anthropology

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

Prof. Liang Dai

Liang Dai

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, physical cosmology

Mark Danner

Dept of English

School of Journalism

foreign affairs, voting and elections, journalism, Central America, politics, Balkans, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film

School of Education

Dept of Psychology

Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking

Dept of Neuroscience

behavioral neurophysiology of spatial learning and memory, hippocampus replay, computational models of reinforcement learning and navigationf

Thomas M. Philip

Thomas M. Philip

School of Education

power and hierarchy in classrooms and schools and society

Brian Staskawicz in lab holding wheat stem

Brian Staskawicz

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

biotechnology, plant and microbial biology