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Department

Arianne E Eason

Arianne E Eason

Dept of Psychology

developmental psychology, social psychology, cultural psychology

Dept of Psychology

Idiographic Science, Group-to-Individual Generalizability, Personalization, EMA, Time Series, physiology, Methods and Statistics

Charlan Jeanne Nemeth

Charlan Jeanne Nemeth

Dept of Psychology

decision making, jury decision making, influence and persuasion, creativity in small groups, managing innovation in organizations, psychology of creative scientists and entrepreneurs, corporate cultures, diversity of team members, brainstorming, psychology and law

Mahesh Srinivasan

Mahesh Srinivasan

Dept of Psychology

flexible and pragmatic uses of language, representation of abstract concepts, linguistic relativity, social cognitive development in different cultural contexts

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

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Dept of Psychology

culture, conflict, behavior, love, psychology, emotion, social interaction, individual differences in emotion, negotiation, embarrassment, desire, juvenile delinquency, laughter, anger, social perception, negotiating morality

Iris Mauss

Dept of Psychology

social psychology, personality psychology, affective science, psychophysiology, individual differences, emotion, emotion regulation, health psychology, happiness, well-being, psychological health

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, behavior, cognition, brain, attention, coordination, psychology, motor and perceptual processes in normal and neurologically impaired populations, temporal processing, executive control

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Feng Wang

Dept of Physics

condensed matter physics, photonics, nanoscience

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

Jasper Rine

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biology, cell biology, DNA replication, gene regulation, saccharomyces cerevisiae, genetic analysis, genome, cholesterol biosynthetic pathway, modification of proteins, prenylated proteins

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Ali Javey

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

nanotechnology, low power electronics, flexible electronics and sensors, nanofabrication, energy harvesting and conversion, programmable matter

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William M Burton

French literature, gender, sexuality, intellectual history, translation studies, Quebec studies, feminism

Dept of Psychology

cognition, human brain function, development

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Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Physics

condensed matter physics and material science, physical chemistry, statistical mechanics, biophysics, atomic molecular and optical physics

School of Education

educational equity, urban schooling, educational leadership, high stakes accountability, school improvement, educational policy, educational management and administration

Dana Miller-Cotto

School of Education

educational equity, early childhood education, cognitive processes, early math learning, social contexts of education

Dept of City & Regional Planning

water, sanitation, basic services delivery, food justice, urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, environmental justice, urban governance, participatory planning, community-based development, international development, development planning, sustainable development, African studies

Kunxin Luo

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

signal transduction pathways, mechanisms controlling the receptor kinases, regulation of mammary epithelial cell differentiation, breast carcinogenesis

Leti Volpp

citizenship, law and culture, identity (especially race and gender), immigration and migration, Asian American studies

Richard Harland

Richard Harland

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

molecular biology, early vertebrate development, Xenopus, embryo development

Steven E. Brenner

Steven E. Brenner

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics