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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Don Tilley in his office

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic, organometallic, polymer and materials chemistry, transition metal compounds, catalysis, new chemical transformations, advanced solid state materials, renewable energy, solar fuels

Hertha D. Sweet Wong

Hertha D. Sweet Wong

Dept of English

American literature, Native American literature, autobiography, ethnic American literature

Katherine Newman

Dept of Sociology

Goldman School of Public Policy

low wage labor markets, social mobility, inequality

Tarek Zohdi

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

advanced manufacturing, 3D printing systems, fire propagation and control, UAVs and swarms, ballistic fabric shielding, food-system modeling, pandemic modeling

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

endocrinology, genetics of aging

Rachel Brem

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

molecular evolution, ecological genetics, genetics and genomics, fungal genetics

Raúl Briceño in outdoor setting

Dept of Physics

nuclear physics, particle physics

Raka Ray in outdoor setting

Raka Ray

Dept of Sociology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

feminist theory, gender, masculinity, middle-class, social movements, South and Southeast Asian studies, relations between dominant subaltern groups in India, women¹s movements in India

Benjamin Porter

Benjamin Porter

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, Middle East, Arid Environments, Heritage, tourism, museum studies

John Yoo speaking at the Hoover Institution

John Yoo

constitutional law, international law, foreign affairs

Arianne E Eason

Arianne E Eason

Dept of Psychology

developmental psychology, social psychology, cultural psychology

Picture of Professor Gray outside the physics department.

Dept of Physics

particle physics, machine learning, algorithms, quantum algorithms, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU)

Dept of English

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies

Andy Martin in lab

Andy Martin

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

26S proteasome, Ubiquitin-Proteasome System, AAA+ ATPases, Molecular motor proteins

film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology

Prof. Liang Dai

Liang Dai

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, physical cosmology

Lucia Lohmann with specimens from the Herbaria collection

Dept of Integrative Biology

ecology, evolution, biogeography, conservation, neotropical biodiversity

Dirk Hockemeyer

Dirk Hockemeyer

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

developmental biology, cell biology

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)

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Dept of History of Art

18th through 20th century French, 18th through 20th century French and American art, history of slavery, colonialism, race, gender, visual and material culture

Reinhard Genzel

Dept of Physics

physics, existence and formation of black holes in galactic nuclei, the nature of the power source, the evolution of (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies, gas dynamics, the fueling of active galactic nuclei, the properties evolution of starburst galaxies

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

gene expression, microRNAs, Mammalian Cell Metabolism, Metabolic Diseases, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, NAFLD/NASH, cancer therapies

Myra Melford by Marco Guigliarelli, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, 2019

music composition, improvisational practices, piano

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chromosome structure and function, higher order chromosome structure, cell cycle controls, chromosome remodeling and reorganization during meiosis, spatial pattern formation in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, genome mapping, eukaryotic genomes, whole-genome analysis

Picture of Professor Merchant

Sabeeha Merchant

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

chloroplast, photosynthesis, algae, trace metals, genomics, synthetic biology, designer lipids, Chlamydomonas, Auxenochlorella, Dunaliella