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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Michael I. Jordan

Dept of Statistics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer science, artificial intelligence, computational biology, statistics, machine learning, electrical engineering, applied statistics, optimization

School of Social Welfare

child welfare, poverty

Austin Roorda standing with an adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope.

Austin John Roorda

School of Optometry

adaptive optics, eye, vision, ophthalmoscopy, scanning laser ophthalmoscope, ophthalmology

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

Native American studies

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

geotechnical earthquake engineering, wireless sensors, seismic slope stability, seismic earth pressure, rock erosion, groundwater remediation, numerical modeling of solid-fluid interaction, geotechnical engineering, geological engineering

Miryam Sas in outdoor environment

Miryam Sas

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Dept of Film and Media

20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies

Per F. Peterson

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

nuclear engineering, heat and mass transfer, reactor thermal hydraulics, nuclear reactor design, radioactive waste, nuclear materials management

Richmond Sarpong

Richmond Sarpong

Dept of Chemistry

organic and organometallic chemistry

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Dept of History

social thought, social sciences in modern Japan, marxism, Japanese history, Japanese-Russian relations

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, representation theory, integrable systems, mathematical physics

Photo of Wesley H. Holliday

Wesley Holliday

Dept of Philosophy

logic, social choice theory

John Harte

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

global change, ecology, sustainability, energy policy, theoretical ecology, biodiversityl

Keith Johnson at lectern

Dept of Linguistics

phonetics

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

Dennis Baldocchi

Dennis Baldocchi

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biometeorology, climate change and ecosystems, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, agricultural meteorology, ecosystem ecology, carbon cycle, evaporation, ecohydrology, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Systematic Entomology

Cecil S. Giscombe

Cecil S. Giscombe

Dept of English

Creative Writing

School of Journalism

agriculture, environment, obesity, science, nutrition, journalism, food, cooking, gardening

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

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William M Burton

French literature, gender, sexuality, intellectual history, translation studies, Quebec studies, feminism

James Bartolome

James W. Bartolome

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

plant ecology, grazing, biodiversity, grasslands, environmental science, rangelands, fire, mediterranean ecosystems

Frederic Theunissen

Frederic Theunissen

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

behavior, cognition, brain, psychology, birdsong, vocal learning, audition, neurophysiology, speech perception, computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience

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

Britt Koskella in the greenhouse

Dept of Integrative Biology

Bacteriophage, Microbiome, plant-pathogen interactions, disease ecology, agricultural sustainability, Environmental Microbiology of Bacteria and Viruses, plant microbiome, evolutionary ecology

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, critical gerontology, lesbian and gay studies, feminist and queer theory