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Prof. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos standing on a damaged levee in Grand Isle, LA, following Hurricane Ida.

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

civil infrastructure systems, geosystems, geotechnical engineering, landslides, drones, satellites, earthquakes, natural hazards, infrastructure resilience, bioinformatics, engineering justice

Youjin Chung

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical food and agrarian studies, Science and Technology studies, feminist theory, African studies, Tanzania, critical ethnography, participatory research

Alex Zettl

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter physics, fullerenes, condensed matter experiments, characterize novel materials with unusual electronic and magnetic ground states, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures, superconductors, giant magnetoresistance materials, nanotubes, graphene, boron nitride nanostructures, neural probes, NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems)

Jessica Lu

Dept of Astronomy

black holes, star and cluster formation, galactic centers, adaptive optics, astronomy, instrumentation, infrared instrumentation, astrometry

Charisma Acey

Dept of City & Regional Planning

water, sanitation, basic services delivery, food justice, urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, environmental justice, urban governance, participatory planning, community-based development, international development, development planning, sustainable development, African studies

Hilary Hoynes

Dept of Economics

Goldman School of Public Policy

poverty, inequality, economic policy, Social Safety Net, labor economics, public economics, Food Insecurity, COVID-19

Emmanuel Saez

Dept of Economics

inequality, taxation, redistribution

Alan H. Schoenfeld

School of Education

thinking, teaching, learning, productive learning environments, professional development, mathematics education, modeling thinking and decision making

Allen Goldstein

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

global change, air pollution, environmental science, biogeochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, indoor air quality

William F. Hanks

Dept of Anthropology

social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture

Ana Paula Arruda

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

Andrew Scharlach

School of Social Welfare

aging, social welfare, family issues, aging-friendly communities, long-term care policies

Anne E. Cunningham

School of Education

education, literacy, reading development, children and technology, teacher professional development

Thomas Maimone

Dept of Chemistry

organic synthesis, total synthesis, natural products chemistry, catalysis, synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry, drug discovery

John G. Flannery

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

School of Optometry

neurobiology, optometry, vision science, cell and molecular biology of the retina in normal and diseased states

Loïc Wacquant

Dept of Sociology

sociology

Beth Piatote

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

Native American studies

Jitendra Malik

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer science, electrical engineering, vision science, computer vision, robotics

Moriel Vandsburger

Dept of Bioengineering

bioengineering, molecular MRI, MRI

Jun Hu

Dept of History of Art

Chinese art and architecture

Robert L. Taylor

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

computational mechanics, mechanics of solids, finite element methods, finite element software

John Coates in lab with equipment in background

John D. Coates

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

precision fermentation, Bioprocess scale-up, environmental microbiology, Industrial bioprocesses, sustainability, carbon sequestration, Bioremediation, alternative energy production, biogeochemistry

John W. Morris, Jr

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

structural materials, computational materials, the limits of strength, deformation mechanisms, non-destructive testing with SQUID microscopy, mechanisms of grain refinement in high strength steels, lead-free solders for microelectronics

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