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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
Nathaniel Wolfson Nathaniel Wolfson
Dept of Spanish and Portuguese
Brazilian literature and culture, Latin American literature and culture, Latin American Art History, media studies, critical theory, environmental humanities, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, visual studies
Luba Golburt Luba Golburt
Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Russian poetry from the 18th century to contemporary, lyric theory, nature lyric, Pushkin, Russian literature and art of the 18th and 19th centuries, Derzhavin, Turgenev, history and literataure, historical novel
S. Shankar Sastry S. Shankar Sastry
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
embedded and cyberphysical systems, artificial intelligence, AR/VR, computer science, robotics, arial robots, cybersecurity, cyber defense, homeland defense, nonholonomic systems, control of hybrid systems, sensor networks, interactive visualization, robotic telesurgery, rapid prototyping
Clayton J. Radke Clayton J. Radke
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
chemical engineering, surface & colloid science technology, protein/polymer/surfactant adsorption from solution, two-phase enzymatic catalysis, interfacial surfactant transport, electrokinetics, pore-level fluid mechanics, contact-lens & eye mechanics
wdt William (Bill) D. Thompson
Dept of Psychology
cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, learning, Problem solving, Reasoning, decision-making, Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, machine learning, computational modeling, collective decision-making, social networks
Maggi Kelly Nina Maggi Kelly
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
remote sensing, drones, ecosystem sciences, forests, geoinformatics, participatory web, GIS
headshot of Christine Wildsoet smiling Christine Wildsoet
School of Optometry
optometry, vision science, myopia, refractive errors, accommodation, aberrations, eye growth, ocular therapeutics, optical myopia control, pharmacological myopia control, ocular tissue engineering, ocular stem cells, basic and clinical research with social implications
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
Sharad Chari Sharad Chari
Dept of Geography
geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean
Zachary Pardos Zachary Pardos
School of Education
knowledge representation, adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, learning analytics, Recommender Systems, higher education, data science, Digital Learning Environments, cognitive modeling, Big Data in Education, Knowledge Tracing, Formative Assessment, intelligent tutoring systems, Online Learning, psychometrics, Educational Data Mining
Paolo D'Odorico wearing a blue shirt, with unfocused greenery in background Paolo D'Odorico
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
hydrology, ecohydrology, water resources, Water and Society, environmental sciences, Drylands, Desertification
Dr. Kwong on a rooftop with a skylight Laura Kwong
School of Public Health
environmental health sciences
Coye Cheshire Coye Cheshire
School of Information
sociology, trust, social media, social psychology, misinformation, disinformation, social networks, collective action, social exchange, information exchange, social incentives, reputation, internet research, online research, online behavior, human-computer interaction, data science, biosensors, virtual reality
Barry Shane Barry Shane
Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
health and nutrition, nutritional sciences and toxicology, birth defects, nutritional genomics
Rebecca Tarvin in the field holding a snake Rebecca Tarvin
Dept of Integrative Biology
natural history, molecular genomics, phylogenetics, amphibians, chemical ecology, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary biology, adaptation, evolution, molecular evolution, physiology, molecular phylogenetics, educational equity, biodiversity, diversity of team members, equity and inclusion in academia, decolonization, collaboration, reptiles, Drosophila, genomes, evolution of novelty, conservation, nudibranchs
Katharine Hammond S. Katharine Hammond
School of Public Health
public health, environmental health sciences
Jun Sunseri conducting ground penetrating radar survey at the request of his Community Mentors (photo courtesy of Zach Emerson of the InterTribal Ecological Restoration Crew) Jun Sunseri
Dept of Anthropology
community-accountable archaeology, historical archaeology, zooarchaeology, ceramic material science, GIS, landscape archaeology, experimental archaeology, community-engaged research/scholarship, outreach, foodways, actualistic research, exploration geophysics, ground penetrating radar, remote sensing, photogrammetry, magnetometry, thermodynamics, adobe construction, food sovereignty
James Vernon James Vernon
Dept of History
Britain, its Empire and World, 1750 to present
Michael Ranney Michael Ranney
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
headshot of Michel Maharbiz Michel Maharbiz
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
neural interfaces, bioMEMS, microsystems, MEMS, microsystems for the life sciences
Gregory W. Aponte Gregory W. Aponte
Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
health and nutrition, nutritional sciences, signaling between the gut and the brain, neuropeptides, G-protein coupled receptors
Maria Mavroudi Maria Mavroudi
Dept of History
Byzantine studies
Abigail De Kosnik Abigail De Kosnik
Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
new media, performance studies, performance theory, performance, media studies, fan studies, digital culture, social networks, film, television, social media, Internet culture, digital humanities, data science, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality, nationality, transnationalism, Filipino American studies, Asian American studies, archives, cultural memory, piracy, distribution
Seth M. Holmes Seth M. Holmes
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
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