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School of Public Health

ethnography and qualitative methods, stress and chronic disease, social determinants of health and health disparities, health systems research and healthcare access, social difference and power and inequality, criminal justice as a determinant of health, urban transportation, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships

john powell at lectern

john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

Ajay Pillarisetti setting at desk with computer monitor and microphone in background

Ajay Pillarisetti

School of Public Health

energy use, health effects of air pollution, climate change, exposure assessment, global health, health impacts of energy use, heat and health, air pollution measurement, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

An image of Dr. Lofgren standing outdoors

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

comparative genomics, bioinformatics, ecology, mycology

Edward C. Morse

Edward C. Morse

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

applied plasma physics: fusion technology: microwaves, experimental investigation of RF plasma heating, experimental studies of compact toroids spectral method for magnetohydrodynamic stability

Joelle Frechette

Joelle Frechette

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

soft materials, interfacial science, adhesion

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

Dimitrios Zekkos

Dimitrios Zekkos

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

geotechnical engineering, landslides, drones, satellites, earthquakes, natural hazards, infrastructure resilience, informatics, geoenvironmental engineering, landfills

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Seismology, earthquakes, earthquake hazard mitigation, deep earth structure & dynamics, tomography, natural hazards

Laurent Coscoy sitting in outdoor setting

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

immunology, viruses, viral infection, immune responses, immune evasion

Haas School of Business

business ethics, Jewish business ethics, specifically peace, conflict studies

Alane Suhr

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, computational linguistics

Anastasios Melis

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

photosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering, synthetic biology, bioproduction R&D

Kunxin Luo

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

signal transduction pathways, mechanisms controlling the receptor kinases, regulation of mammary epithelial cell differentiation, breast carcinogenesis

Daniel A. Portnoy

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, bacteriology, infectious diseases, intracellular pathogens, innate immunity, adaptive immunity, vaccines, cell biology

Gabriel Gann presenting with hands raise in front of her

Gabriel Orebi Gann

Dept of Physics

particle physics

Alessandra Lanzara

Dept of Physics

materials science, ultrafast science, quantum materials, sustainable materials, topological phases of matter

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

nanoscience, electrical engineering, nanoelectronics

Rodrigo Almeida

Rodrigo Almeida

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

disease ecology, plant disease, vector-borne, Xylella fastidiosa, emerging diseases

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

developmental biology, Xenopus laevis, Spemann's organizer, cortical rotation, cell cycle after fertilization, vegetal materials, blastula stage, egg cytoplasm

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Wave Mechanics, ocean and coastal waves phenomena, ocean renewable energy (wave, Tide and Offshore Wind Energy), Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Fluid Flow Control, ocean renewable energy

School of Optometry

optometry, low vision, vision science, pattern vision, reading, cortical adaptation and plasticity

Professor Michi Taga with Petri plate

Michi Taga

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

molecular biology, genetics, microbial biology, chemical biology, cofactors, nutrient exchange, microbial communities, bacteria

Mathias Kondolf wearing hat and holding notebook at the Bill Williams River in Arizona

G. Mathias Kondolf

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

environmental planning, fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, flood risk management, river restoration, urban rivers, environmental impact assessment, river corridor management, sediment management, hydropower, strategic dam planning, integrating energy planning and river management