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Pheng Cheah

Dept of Rhetoric

world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought

Dept of Chemistry

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

Photo of Sanjay Kumar

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

biomaterials, molecular and cellular bioengineering, stem cells, cancer biology, translational medicine

Dept of Physics

physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, the symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory

Danya Lagos

Dept of Sociology

gender, transgender studies, social change, demography, survey research methods

Robert P. Merges

antitrust, intellectual property, property rights, patent law, law and economics, copyright law, digital content, online contracts

Bruno Olshausen

Bruno Olshausen

Dept of Neuroscience

School of Optometry

visual perception, computational neuroscience, computational vision

Ignacio Chapela

Ignacio Chapela

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

agriculture, biotechnology, environmental science, microbial biology, policy and management

K. Birgitta Whaley

K. Birgitta Whaley

Dept of Chemistry

quantum information and quantum computation, control and simulation of complex quantum systems, quantum effects in biological systems, quantum physics, quantum mechanics

Chris Martin with water in background

Christopher Martin

Dept of Integrative Biology

evolutionary biology, speciation, genomics, adaptation, craniofacial development

William F. Hanks

William F. Hanks

Dept of Anthropology

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

A photograph of a handsome professor of Architecture

Dept of Architecture

design computation, architectural representation, design methods, Generative AI, artificial intelligence, creativity, ideation and creativity

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

A head shot of me smiling in the English Department lecture room in Wheeler Hall.

Dept of English

feminist theory, psychoanalysis, British and American Modernism, Virginia Woolf, race and gender

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

Joseph Orenstein in lab

Joseph Orenstein

Dept of Physics

optical properties of quantum materials, magnetism, superconductivity, spin transport

Alane Suhr

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, computational linguistics

Ann Kring

Dept of Psychology

schizophrenia, emotion, mental illness, psychology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

transcription regulation during cellular differentiation, gene expression control mechanism, biophysical rules of nuclear organization

Oliver John

Dept of Psychology

research methods, personality, measurement, emotion regulation, personality structure, personality development, traits, Big Five model, individual differences, emotion expression, self-concept, accuracy, bias, self-knowledge, personality assessment

Picture of Seth Finnegan lecturing in the field in Utah

Dept of Integrative Biology

paleobiology, paleoecology, paleoenvironments, mass extinctions, marine ecosystems

School of Education

resilience, risk, culture, teacher wellness, school climate, school violence and school climate, children and adolescents, mental health, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

amino acids, determinants of protein structure and folding, biophysical, structural and computational techniques, translocation, protein synthesis

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Dept of Geography

continuum mechanics, climate, geomorphology, glaciers, glaciology, climate history, stable isotopes, geographical thought