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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Laurent Coscoy sitting in outdoor setting

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Dept of Psychology

cognition, human brain function, development

Michael Nachman

Michael Nachman

Dept of Integrative Biology

population genetics, evolution, genomics, mammalian evolution

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

Mairi McLaughlin

Mairi McLaughlin

Dept of Italian Studies

French linguistics, translation studies, language of the media, language contact, syntax, romance linguistics, History of the Romance Languages, Italian language, history of French, History of the Press, Speech Reporting, Metalinguistic texts

Dept of African American Studies

public history, African diaspora in Europe, British imperialism, community-engaged research/scholarship

Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed standing in outdoor setting

Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

continued life of Islamic philosophy

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

China, lyric poetry, Chinese literature, Chinese culture, poetic theory

Serena Chen

Dept of Psychology

Self and identity, close relationships, social cognition, social psychology, relational self, collective self, social power, hierarchy, status

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)

Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic structure, language production, aphasia and related language disorders, bilingualism, stuttering

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

noble gas geochemistry, thermochronometry, cosmogenic nuclide, alpine glacial erosion, chemical weathering, lunar impacts, magnetism, Martian meteorites, Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission

Dept of Ethnic Studies

critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

medical imaging, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, low temperature biology, micro and nano bionic technologies, electrical impedance tomography, bio-electronics, biomedical devices biomedical numerical analysis, bio-heat and mass transfer, electroporation light imaging

Felix Owusu

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, criminal legal system

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks

Dept of Demography

Dept of Sociology

culture, population, social action, intentions, Africa, gender, fertility, marriage

Solène Delecourt

Solène Delecourt

Haas School of Business

business performance, entrepreneurship, discrimination, field experiments, management

Maura Nolan

Dept of English

drama, Middle English literature, Renaissance and Early Modern literature

Dept of Psychology

alcohol and substance use disorder, externalizing, electroencephalogram (EEG), event-related potentials, ecological momentary assessment, behavioral economics, behavioral genetics

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

wastewater based epidemiology, water and wastewater treatment, water reuse, detection and inactivation of pathogens in water and sludge, appropriate technologies

Nasser Meerkhan in outside environment.

Nasser Meerkhan

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Medieval Iberia, transcultural text, transtermporal text, translinguistic text

Darian Longmire

Dept of Art Practice

mixed media, printmaking, Abstraction, Black studies, Black contemporary art

Dept of Chemistry

single-molecule spectroscopy, quantum optics, colloidal semiconductor nanostructures, optoelectronics, bio-nanophotonics, materials chemistry

Ashley Wolf

School of Public Health

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

gut microbiota, metabolism, genomics, host-microbe interactions