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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Gabor A. Somorjai

Gabor A. Somorjai

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, catalysis, surface science, low-energy electron diffraction, solid state chemistry, macroscopic surface phenomena, adhesion, lubrication, biocompatibility, bonding, reactivity at solid surfaces, scanning tunneling

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urban and regional economics, social and spatial inequality, urbanization, segregation, quantitative methods

Yoram Rubin

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

risk assessment, hydrogeology, contaminant transport, geostatistics

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

performance history/historiography, British performance 1650-1800, British literature 1650-1800, disability, gender, social geography, set design

School of Education

language, culture, society, literacy, literacy learning of urban youth, African American students in schools, writing development, effective teaching, learning strategies in multicultural urban schools and communities, studies of race - class - and gender, Leaders for Equity and Democracy EdD - LEAD

Yang Dan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neuronal circuits, mammalian visual system, electrophysiological, imaging, prefrontal cortex, sleep

Richard H. Kramer

Dept of Neuroscience

Neurons, synaptic transmission, photopharmacology, ion channels, action potentials, optical imaging, vision, learning and memory, retina, neurodegenrative disease(1551)

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Courtney Desiree Morris

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics

Mark Sandberg sitting in outside setting

Dept of Film and Media

Dept of Scandinavian

silent film, late nineteenth-century visual culture, theater history, comedy, Scandinavian design, serial television, film historiography, Scandinavian film history, Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian literature, Nordic literary history

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

School of Education

biostatistics, educational statistics, latent variable models, missing data methods, multilevel models, generalized linear latent and mixed models, hierarchical models, longitudinal data, Item response models, structural equation models

Michael Zuerch in front of vacuum chamber.

Michael W. Zuerch

Dept of Chemistry

collective phenomena in material, chemical material dynamics in surfaces and interfaces, symmetry-broken states and their emergence in condensed-phase systems, dynamical properties in artificial and correlated superlattices, ultrafast spectroscopy from THz to X-rays

John Harte

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

global change, ecology, sustainability, energy policy, theoretical ecology, biodiversityl

Archaeologists confer at the Yarumela site in Honduras

Rosemary A. Joyce

Dept of Anthropology

Latin America, anthropology, cultural heritage, gender, archaeology, sexuality, museums, ethics, Central America, feminism

Ting Xu in lab looking at samples

Ting Xu

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

polymer, nanocomposite, biomaterial, membrane, directed self-assembly, drug delivery, protein therapeutics, block copolymers, nanoparticles

Dept of Economics

inequality, Place Based Policies, firm wage setting policies, employment discrimination, econometrics, discrimination

Dennis Baldocchi

Dennis Baldocchi

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biometeorology, climate change and ecosystems, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, agricultural meteorology, ecosystem ecology, carbon cycle, evaporation, ecohydrology, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship

Suzanne MJ. Fleiszig

Suzanne M.J. Fleiszig

School of Optometry

immunology, eye, microbiology, infectious disease, corneal physiology, tear film physiology, bacterial pathogenesis, contact lenses, pseudomonas aeruginosa, epithelial cell biology, innate immunity

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

Lin He

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

comparative genomics, developmental biology, cell biology, cancer biology

William Jagust sitting in front of a monitor of brain images.

Dept of Neuroscience

neuroscience, cognition, brain aging, dementia, imaging, Alzheimer's disease

Dept of City & Regional Planning

cultural and political economy of racism, Black ecologies, racial capitalism, digital humanities

Jonathan Rittle

Jonathan Rittle

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, crystallography, spectroscopy

Carlos Bustamante

Carlos Bustamante

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, structural characterization of nucleo-protein assemblies, single molecule fluorescence microscopy, DNA-binding molecular motors, the scanning force microscope, prokaryotes

Meng C. Lin

School of Optometry

contact lenses, vision, clinical trials (phase I - Phase IV), clinical trial designs, tear film, biomedical devices, ocular surface

Ana Paula Arruda

Ana Paula Arruda

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology