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Department

Puck Engman

Dept of History

history of socialism, social revolution, law and state, historical justice, political communication, bureaucratic process

Stephen Collier

Stephen Collier

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urban vulnerability and resilience, insurance and climate change, Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation, infrastructure and politics, neoliberalism and governmental rationality, emergency government in the United States

Steven E. Brenner

Steven E. Brenner

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics

Dept of Political Science

School of Information

political science, international security, international political economy, information science

Patrick Hsu in the lab

Patrick Hsu

Dept of Bioengineering

generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science

School of Optometry

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

signal processing, image processing, computer vision, Deep Learning

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biology, cell motility, the role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion, shape change, actin filament assembly, bacterial and viral pathogens

Richard H. Kramer

Dept of Neuroscience

Neurons, synaptic transmission, photopharmacology, ion channels, action potentials, optical imaging, vision, learning and memory, retina, neurodegenrative disease(1551)

Michael Marletta

Michael A. Marletta

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chemical biology, molecular biology, structure/function relationships in proteins, catalytic and biological properties of enzymes, cellular signaling, nitric oxide synthase, soluble guanylate cyclase, gas sensing, cellulose degradation, polysaccharide monooxygenases

George F. Smoot

George F. Smoot

Dept of Physics

cosmology, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, observing our galaxy, the cosmic background radiation, ground-based radio-telescope observations, balloon-borne instrumentation, satellite experiments, the NASA cosmic background

Kenneth Raymond

Kenneth N. Raymond

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bacteria, bioinorganic chemistry, biophysical chemistry, coordination, design of specific chelating agents for metal ions, human iron storage and transport proteins, low-molecular weight chelating agents, metals in medicine, metal-ligands

Lange faculty portrait

Henrike C. Lange

Dept of History of Art

art, architecture, literature, afterlife of antiquity, middle ages & Renaissance / early modern age, Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, Botticelli, Raphael, 19th and 20th century historiography, Aby Warburg, total solar eclipses, theology, creativity and interdisciplinarity

JIP Graduation 2023

Dept of Rhetoric

Classical Studies, classical reception studies, philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Jewish intellectual thought

Charles L Briggs

Charles L Briggs

Dept of Anthropology

social cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, folklore and performance, racialization, linguistic anthropology

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

immigration and migration, medical anthropology with foci on social theory and ethnography, social studies of medicine and science, social difference related to race, social difference related to socioeconomic status, social difference related to citizenship, social difference related to gender, social difference related to sexuality, the naturalization and normalization of social hierarchies and health disparities, social suffering and symbolic violence, urban and rural Latin America and North America, population health with focus on global health, population health with focus on health disparities, population health with focus on social determinants of health

Andreas Schaab in outdoor setting

Dept of Economics

monetary policy, business cycle fluctuations, inequality, policy design

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

climate policy, energy policy, business and environment, political economy

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, metabolism, photosynthetic systems, Systems and Synthetic Biology, protein engineering

Dept of Integrative Biology

energetics, comparative biomechanics, arthropod, adhesion, comparative physiology, locomotion, neuromechanics, biomimicry, biological inspiration, reptile, gecko, amphibian, robots, artificial muscles

School of Public Health

climate and health equity, just energy transitions and interventions, environmental justice, maternal and child health, mixed methods

Brian A. Barsky

Brian A. Barsky

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

School of Optometry

computer science, geometric design and modeling, computer graphics, computer aided cornea modeling and visualization, medical imaging, virtual environments for surgical simulation

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, nanoengineering, catalytic imprinted silicas, catalysts in biological systems, catalysis, chemical sensing

Dept of Chemistry

computational genomics, Genomic susceptibility of common diseases, Genomic Tree of Life, Demography of human genome diversity

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases