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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

Lew Feldman in the Botanical Garden's Carnivorous Plant Greenhouse

Lewis J. Feldman

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant biology, plant physiology, Plant

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

Vernadette Gonzalez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American literacy and cultural studies, culture of U.S. Imperialism, gender and sexuality, Philippine and Filipino American studies, transnational American studies

Haas School of Business

marketing, consumer behavior and decision making

Joseph L. Napoli

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

metabolism, nutritional biochemistry, fat-soluble vitamins, retinoids, retinoic acid, retinol, vitamin A, vitamin D, analytical biochemistry

Deniz Göktürk

German literature, German cinema, transnational cinemas, German-Turkish-European-American intersections in cinema, performance and spectatorship and reception, intertextuality and intermediality and translation, the politics and poetics of migration and globalization, urban imaginaries and mediations of place, theories of diversity and nationalism, comedy and community, modern rituals of regulating identity and authority and mobility

Inez Fung

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

climate change, carbon cycle, terrestrial biosphere

Ivonne del Valle

Ivonne del Valle

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

colonial period in México, internal colonialism in Mexico, Jesuits (Loyola, Acosta, Baegert), Baroque and Enlightenment from a colonial perspective, technology and environment, drainage of Mexico City lakes, Christianity and pre-Hispanic religions

Dept of Physics

physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, the geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

control theory, optimization, power systems

Hitoshi Murayama

Dept of Physics

physics, particle physics, the universe, fundamental constituents of matter, Higgs boson, anti-matter, neutrino oscillations, finite value of the cosmological constant, triple coincidence of energy densities

Lara Marie Kueppers

Lara Marie Kueppers

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

climate change, ecology, forests, tropics, Western US

Alexis Kaminski in outdoor setting

Alexis Kaminski

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

fluid dynamics, stratified flows, upper-ocean dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, mixing, internal waves, shear instabilities

Hannah Stuart working with Laura Treers on a burrowing robot

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

robotics, dynamics, design-based research, exoskeleton systems, bioinspired robots, marine systems, dexterous manipulation, hands, grasping, Mechanism Design, human-robot interaction

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, intracellular signal transduction mechanisms, physical chemistry of cell membranes, single molecule imaging, stochastic processes

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, mechanisms of nervous system structure and function, drosophila mutants

Dept of Ethnic Studies

interdisciplinary Native American studies, Alaska Native studies, cultural studies, gender studies, American studies, literary and visual culture

film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology

Mt. Seorak, 2021

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean literature and culture, comparative literature, critical theory, marxism, posthumanism, psychoanalysis

Dept of Anthropology

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

Dept of History of Art

global modern art, modern and contemporary South and Southeast Asian art

Iswar Hariharan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

growth regulation, regeneration, cancer

Ian Haney Lopez

Ian F. Haney Lopez

constitutional law, race relations, civil rights, race in politics, Latinos

Tarek Zohdi

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

advanced manufacturing, 3D printing systems, fire propagation and control, UAVs and swarms, ballistic fabric shielding, food-system modeling, pandemic modeling