Omar M. Yaghi Dept of Chemistry Reticular Chemistry, metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, Carbon Capture, gas storage systems, water harvesting from desert air.
Liesl Yamaguchi Dept of French poetics, linguistics, literary theory, 19th century literature, modern poetry
Wen-hsin Yeh Dept of History history, East Asian studies, Qing and Modern China, Maritime Asia, Taiwan, Pacific Rim societies
Nasser Zakariya Dept of Rhetoric science and narrative and documentary, history and philosophy of mathematics and physics