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nuclear engineering, heat and mass transfer, reactor thermal hydraulics, nuclear reactor design, radioactive waste, nuclear materials management

Van P. Carey

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

mechanical engineering, use of machine learning to develop high performance energy conversion and thermal management technologies, micro-to-nanoscale modeling of the thermophysics of multiphase systems, waste plastic transport in environmental watersheds, waste plastic recycling

Maria Paz Gutierrez

Dept of Architecture

natural waste composites and additive manufacturing, flood resilience, multifunctional building systems, biologically inspired technologies, robotics and additive manufacturing

Cathryn Carson

Dept of History

science and society, data science, ethics, artificial intelligence, history of science and technology, history of physics, nuclear waste, intellectual history, interdisciplinarity

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

environmental microbiology, biodegradation of environmental contaminants, microbial carbon cycling, molecular tools for microbial ecology, metagenomics, biological hazardous waste treatment, bioremediation of groundwater pollutants

David Sedlak standing in pool with sculpture to his right.

David L. Sedlak

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

fate and transport of and transformation of chemicals in the aquatic environment, water reuse and water recycling, urban water infrastructure, engineered treatment wetlands

Kate O'Neill

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

wastes and the circular economy, global environmental governance, climate change politics, globalization, environmental politics and policy, environmental movements

Slawomir W. Hermanowicz

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

water quality management, biofilms, membrane processes, water reuse, biological processes for water quality, physical sustainability

Vincent H. Resh

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

ecology, water resources, pollution, monitoring, water-borne diseases

Kara L. Nelson

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

Paolo D'Odorico

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

hydrology, ecohydrology, water resources, Water and Society, environmental sciences, Drylands, Desertification

John Connelly

Dept of History

modern East and Central European political and social history, comparative education, history of nationalism and racism, history of Catholicism, Late Modern Europe

Joseph S. Shapiro

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

Dept of Economics

trade and the environment, water pollution, Clean Water Act, air pollution, climate change

Isha Ray

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

water and development, sanitation and development, gender and technology and society

Michael Reich

Dept of Economics

minimum wage, living wages, labor market segmentation, low wage labor markets

Yuri Slezkine

Dept of History

Russia, Late Modern Europe

Ashok Gadgil

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

drinking water, fuel-efficient stoves, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, developing countries, buildings energy efficiency

Maya Carrasquillo

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

infrastructure justice, food-energy-water systems, urban water infrastructure, equitable decision-making, environmental justice, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Matthew B. Francis

Dept of Chemistry

materials chemistry, drug delivery, organic chemistry, Protein modification, artificial photosynthesis, water purification

John Lie

Dept of Sociology

social theory, political economy, East Asia

Baoxia Mi

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

membrane separation, desalination, water purification, solar evaporation, wastewater reuse, environmental applications of nanomaterials

Working with cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire

David Zilberman

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

marketing, biotechnology, water, risk management, biofuels, natural resources, agricultural and environmental policy, the economics of innovation

Todd Dawson

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Integrative Biology

physiological plant ecology, evolutionary plant ecology, ecosystem processes, adaptations of plants, carbon, water, nitrogen

Tamma Carleton

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

environmental and resource economics, remote sensing, climate change, water resources, health effects of air pollution

Katherine Newman

Dept of Sociology

Goldman School of Public Policy

low wage labor markets, social mobility, inequality

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