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Dept of Integrative Biology
Dept of Neuroscience
neuroscience, aging, dementia, stress, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, blood brain barrier, resilience, trauma, psychedelics, glia, myelin
Wenjun Zhang Wenjun Zhang
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
chemical biology, microbiology, natural product biosynthesis, enzyme discovery and characterization, drug discovery
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
S. Shankar Sastry S. Shankar Sastry
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
embedded and cyberphysical systems, artificial intelligence, AR/VR, computer science, robotics, arial robots, cybersecurity, cyber defense, homeland defense, nonholonomic systems, control of hybrid systems, sensor networks, interactive visualization, robotic telesurgery, rapid prototyping
Joseph Napoli Joseph L. Napoli
Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
metabolism, nutritional biochemistry, fat-soluble vitamins, retinoids, retinoic acid, retinol, vitamin A, vitamin D, analytical biochemistry
Beth Piatote Beth Piatote
Dept of Comparative Literature
Dept of English
Native American studies
Rowland Taylor in lab Rowland Taylor
School of Optometry
mammalian visual system, retinal function
Daena Funahashi Daena Funahashi
Dept of Anthropology
Political anthropology, democratic theory, critical theory, Crisis of Legitimacy, stress, Burnout, death, the uncanny, economy of excess, scientific authority, Nordic Welfare, Southeast Asia
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Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
School of Optometry
biomedical optics, clinical science, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience
John G. Flanagan John G. Flanagan
School of Optometry
glaucoma, diabetic eye disease, neuroscience, neurobiology
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
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Dept of Film and Media
Cinema and technological change, cinema and modernity, computer-generated images and contemporary cinema, digital visual effects, stereoscopic 3D cinema and media, the history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema, cinema and globalization, cinema and the environment/elements
Ian Haney Lopez Ian F. Haney Lopez
School of Law
constitutional law, race relations, civil rights, race in politics, Latinos
headshot of Dorian Liepmann Dorian Liepmann
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
bioengineering, mechanical engineering, bioMEMS, biosensors, microfluid dynamics, experimental biofluid dynamics, hemodynamics, valvular heart disease, cardiac flows, arterial flows
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School of Optometry
retinal neurobiology, retinal neurophysiology, ion channels, glutamate receptor, glaucoma, retinal degeneration, cell biology of photoreceptors, retinitis pigmentosa
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Dept of Mechanical Engineering
continuum mechanics, vibrations, dynamics
Jacob Yates Jacob Yates
School of Optometry
optometry
A head shot of me smiling in the English Department lecture room in Wheeler Hall. Elizabeth Abel
Dept of English
feminist theory, psychoanalysis, British and American Modernism, Virginia Woolf, race and gender
Laurent Reyes Laurent Reyes
School of Social Welfare
civic participation, community based research, visual methods, aging, immigration, Latinx older adults, Black older adults, intersectional life course perspective, systems of oppression, access to healthcare
Ian Swinburne Ian Swinburne
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
vertebrate physiologies, quantitative cell biology, development biology
Michael Silver Michael Silver
Dept of Neuroscience
School of Optometry
cognitive neuroscience, pharmacology, psychedelics, learning, attention, visual perception, neuroimaging
Lee Bernstein Lee Bernstein
Dept of Nuclear Engineering
nuclear science data, nuclear engineering, experimental nuclear physics, isotopes, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear science, nuclear weapons
Peter B. Zinoman Peter Zinoman
Dept of History
Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese literature, Southeast Asian history, communism, nationalism, colonialism
Hannah Stuart working with Laura Treers on a burrowing robot Hannah Stuart
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
robotics, dynamics, design-based research, exoskeleton systems, bioinspired robots, marine systems, dexterous manipulation, hands, grasping, Mechanism Design, human-robot interaction
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Division of Computer Science (EECS)
artificial intelligence, intelligent systems and robotics
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