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Mark Tanouye Mark Tanouye
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
genetics, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, mechanisms of nervous system structure and function, drosophila mutants
headshot of Dora Silva Santana Dora Silva Santana
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology
Steven Louie Steven Louie
Dept of Physics
nanoscience, nuclear magnetic resonance, semiconductors, metals, physics, fullerenes, nanotubes, condensed matter theory, surfaces, defects, nanostructure materials, clusters, many-electron effects in solids
Marvin L. Cohen Marvin L. Cohen
Dept of Physics
nanoscience, semiconductors, nanotechnology, physics, condensed matter physics, new properties of condensed matter systems, superconductivity, applications of BCS theory, superluminal velocities
Otter photo Samuel Otter
Dept of English
English, 19th century American literature, 17th and 18th century American literature, African American literature, Herman Melville, race in American culture, literature and history, discourse and ideology, word and image studies, close reading
Headshot of James Pitman James Pitman
Dept of Statistics
fragmentation, statistics, mathematics, Brownian motion, distribution theory, path transformations, stochastic processes, local time, excursions, random trees, random partitions, processes of coalescence
Christian H. Borgs Christian Borgs
Division of Computer Science (EECS)
theoretical computer science, probability theory, combinatorics, complex networks, statistical physics, artificial intelligence, applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and sciences
Jimmy A. McGuire Jimmy A. McGuire
Dept of Integrative Biology
historical biogeography, evolutionary biology, Southeast Asia, population genetics, hummingbirds, functional morphology, vertebrate systematics, phylogenetic analysis, life history evolution, Bayesian methods, Southeast Asian flying lizards
Rebecca Heald Rebecca W. Heald
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
cell division, Xenopus, mitotic spindle assembly and function, size control of intracellular structures
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
Dept of Demography
Dept of Sociology
culture, population, social action, intentions, Africa, gender, fertility, marriage
Image of a white disabled woman in her forties. She is speaking into a microphone giving a presentation. Image is of Sunaura Taylor. Sunaura Taylor
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
disability studies, disability crip theory, ableism, animal studies, animal ethics, multispecies justice, environmental humanities, ecofeminism, environmental justice
Photo in office Murat Arcak
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
control, intelligent systems and robotics, Cyber-Physical Systems, networks, transportation, applications of system theory to aerospace problems, Systems and Synthetic Biology
Judith Butler Judith Butler
Dept of Comparative Literature
critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature
Nathan Sayre Nathan Sayre
Dept of Geography
climate change, endangered species, rangelands, political ecology, pastoralism, ranching, environmental history, suburbanization, human-environment interactions, environmental geography, range science and management, Southwestern US, scale, community-based conservation
headshot of Alexei Yurchak Alexei Yurchak
Dept of Anthropology
social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society
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
Kenneth Polse Kenneth A. Polse
School of Optometry
optometry, vision science, tear mixing, epithelial barrier function, contact lens extended wear
David Whitney David Whitney
Dept of Psychology
cognitive neuroscience, cognition, attention, visual perception, vision, visually guided action, human factors
Olga Matich Olga Matich
Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Slavic languages and literatures, Russian symbolism and post-Stalin literature, women in Russian literature, Zinaida Gippius, Russian emigre literature, conceptualization of love in Russian culture, theory and practice of private life
Michael Marletta Michael A. Marletta
Dept of Chemistry
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
chemical biology, molecular biology, structure/function relationships in proteins, catalytic and biological properties of enzymes, cellular signaling, nitric oxide synthase, soluble guanylate cyclase, gas sensing, cellulose degradation, polysaccharide monooxygenases
Headshot in front of bookshelves. Paula Varsano
Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures
classical Chinese poetry and poetics (3rd-11th centuries), traditional Chinese literary theory, phenomenology, translation, comparative literature, aesthetics, epistemology
Laura Waller Laura Waller
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
computational optical imaging, light field cameras, metrology and inspection, phase retrieval, inverse problems in imaging, optical coherence theory, 3D imaging and display
Gordon Rausser Gordon Rausser
Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics
agricultural and environmental and resource economics, public and regulatory policy, political economy, bargaining theory, futures markets, law and economics, industrial organization and antitrust analysis
Lawrence Hall Lawrence Hall
Dept of Physics
physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, the symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory
Mark D'Esposito, M.D. Mark D'Esposito
Dept of Psychology
cognitive neuroscience, psychology, working memory, frontal lobe function, functional MRI, neurology, brain imaging, dopamine
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