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Sanjay Govindjee Sanjay Govindjee
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
finite element analysis, Theoretical and computational solid mechanics, constitutive theory, micromechanics, polymer mechanics, elastomer modeling, battery modeling, thermomechanics, continuum mechanics, failure analysis
Seth M. Holmes Seth M. Holmes
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
Panayiotis Papadopoulos Panayiotis Papadopoulos
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, contact mechanics, computational plasticity, materials modeling, solid mechanics, applied mathematics, dynamics of pseudo-rigid bodies
Sara McMains Sara McMains
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
geometric and solid modeling, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU), CAD/CAM, computational geometry, computer graphics and visualization, tool path planning, additive manufacturing, computer vision, Deep Learning
Nicholas Sitar Nicholas Sitar
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
Alex Zettl 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)
Nikolaos Papazarkadas Nikolaos Papazarkadas
Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
Greek epigraphy, Greek history, classics, archaeology, history of modern scholarship
Gloria Brar Gloria Brar
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses
Aarti Sethi Aarti Sethi
Dept of Anthropology
agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, climate change, cinema and media culture, caste, socio-economic inequality, the politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography
Jonathan Wurtele Jonathan Wurtele
Dept of Physics
physics, stability, plasma theory, advanced accelerator concepts, intense laser-plasma interaction, the basic equilibrium, radiation properties of intense charged particle beams, simulation and the development of proof-of-principle experiments
headshot of Christine Wildsoet smiling Christine Wildsoet
School of Optometry
optometry, vision science, myopia, refractive errors, accommodation, aberrations, eye growth, ocular therapeutics, optical myopia control, pharmacological myopia control, ocular tissue engineering, ocular stem cells, basic and clinical research with social implications
headshot of Jonathan Gould Jonathan S. Gould
School of Law
politics and law, Congress
Fei Xu Fei Xu
Dept of Psychology
cognitive development, language development, learning mechanisms, statistical learning and statistical inference, conceptual development, developmental psychology, word learning, physical reasoning, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, computational models of cognitive development, cognitive development and AI models, psychology and philosophy
Kristina Hill Kristina Hill
Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
landscape architecture and environmental planning, urban design, urban ecology, surface hydrology, groundwater, sea level rise, climate change, adaptation, environmental justice, adaptation to flooding, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, social justice research, client-based studio teaching, community-based studio teaching
Prof. Vinod K. Aggarwal picture Vinod K. Aggarwal
Dept of Political Science
political science, negotiations, trade policy, international organizations, international debt rescheduling
Rahul Parson in front of the Campanile. Rahul Parson
Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Hindi Literature
Jun Sunseri conducting ground penetrating radar survey at the request of his Community Mentors (photo courtesy of Zach Emerson of the InterTribal Ecological Restoration Crew) Jun Sunseri
Dept of Anthropology
community-accountable archaeology, historical archaeology, zooarchaeology, ceramic material science, GIS, landscape archaeology, experimental archaeology, community-engaged research/scholarship, outreach, foodways, actualistic research, exploration geophysics, ground penetrating radar, remote sensing, photogrammetry, magnetometry, thermodynamics, adobe construction, food sovereignty
Penny Edwards in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2016 Penny Edwards
Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies
political and cultural history of Southeast Asia, French colonialism, British imperialism, French India, British India, comparative colonialism, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Chinese diaspora, cinema and theatre, Material and Visual Culture, travel and translation, gender, nationalism, Buddhism, economic history, global history
Sung-Hou Kim Sung-Hou Kim
Dept of Chemistry
computational genomics, Genomic susceptibility of common diseases, Genomic Tree of Life, Demography of human genome diversity
Luther Obrock Luther Obrock
Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Sanskrit literature
Professor Tackett in China examining a recently excavated ninth-century funerary epitaph. Nicolas Tackett
Dept of History
Chinese history (Tang, Song, Liao dynasties), global middle ages, sino-steppe relations, aristocracies, meritocracy, elites, political culture, death ritual, premodern cities, premodern empires, imperialism, ethnicity, nationalism, national identity, social networks, frontiers, boundaries and borderlands, digital methodologies
Headshot (J. Habu) Junko Habu
Dept of Anthropology
Japan, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, sustainability, East Asia, Jomon hunter-gatherers
Jinsoo An Jinsoo An
Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Korean cinema, Korean culture
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
Woman in black long sleeve top. She has red short hair and is smiling at the camera. Lisa Wymore
Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
dance, choreography, Multi-Media Performance, Dance Theater
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