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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

School of Optometry

Milnes with the UCBSO in Europe

music, directing, orchestral conducting technique, music ensemble

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

mechanical engineering, use of machine learning to develop high performance energy conversion and thermal management technologies, micro-to-nanoscale modeling of the thermophysics of multiphase systems, waste plastic transport in environmental watersheds, waste plastic recycling

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

transportation, wireless communications, inertial navigation for vehicle systems

Dept of History

history, East Asian studies, Qing and Modern China, Maritime Asia, Taiwan, Pacific Rim societies

Judith P. Klinman

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

catalytic & regulatory mechanisms in enzyme-catalyzed reactions, kinetic, spectroscopic, stereochemical biological techniques, peptide- derived cofactors, nuclear tunneling & role of protein dynamics in catalysis, enzymatic activation of molecular oxygen

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

John Battles pointing out changes in forest composition during a field trip at Blodgett Forest Research Station.

John J. Battles

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

forest ecology, sustainability, ecosystem dynamics, disturbance ecology, tree demography, carbon ecology and storage, Sierra Nevada, northern forest

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

An image of Dr. Lofgren standing outdoors

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

comparative genomics, bioinformatics, ecology, mycology

Photo by Diamela Cutiño

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

business law, financial markets

Receiving the ASA's 2022 Distinguished Book Award

Armando Lara-Millan

Dept of Sociology

economy & society, law, Healthcare, political economy, prisons

Dept of Geography

China, geography, political economy of development in East Asia, the process of international economic restructuring, cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment, growth in Chinese cities, business networks

Dept of Art Practice

photography, contemporary art, Art Pedagogy, performance, postcolonial studies, gender, queer, trans studies, contemporary African Art, South Asian Art, art of the Global South, global modernisms

photo of Hanoch Dagan in outside environment

contract and commercial law, jurisprudence, property

Madison Douglas standing in streambed from website

Madison Douglas

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

landscape evolution, permafrost environments, periglacial geomorphology, Earth's surface, sediment transport

Sukanya Banerjee

Sukanya Banerjee

Dept of English

19th century British, South Asian, critical theory, cultural studies, narrative and the novel

Myra Melford by Marco Guigliarelli, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, 2019

music composition, improvisational practices, piano

Kaoru Saijo

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

neurodevelopmental disorders, neuropsychiatric disease, neurodegenerative disease, immunology, pathogenesis

Damon Young standing in front of book shelves full of reading material

Damon Young

Dept of Film and Media

film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory

Maximilian Auffhammer

Maximilian Auffhammer

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

climate change, social cost of carbon, econometrics, air pollution, environmental economics, energy economics, species conservation

Dept of Physics

physics, lasers, x-rays, plasma physics, materials, atomic physics, ultrafast science

Dept of Mathematics

number theory, automorphic forms

Pamela Samuelson

Pamela Samuelson

public policy, intellectual property law, new information technologies, traditional legal regimes, information management, copyright, software protection and cyberlaw, AI govenance