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Department

Jonathan Zwicker

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan

Dr. Xiaohua Gong

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, eye development and diseases, lens development

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

Tom McEnaney in outside setting

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, media studies, radio, 20th century American literature, architecture, linguistic anthropology, digital humanities

Alessandra Lanzara

Dept of Physics

materials science, ultrafast science, quantum materials, sustainable materials, topological phases of matter

Daniel M. Neumark

Daniel M. Neumark

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, molecular structure and dynamics, spectroscopy and dynamics of transition states, radicals, clusters, frequency and time-domain techniques, state-resolved photodissociation, photodetachment of negative ion beams

Dept of Physics

physics, lasers, x-rays, plasma physics, materials, atomic physics, ultrafast science

Dora Zhang in outside environment

Dora Zhang

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

narrative & the novel, 20th and 21st century Britain, 20th and 21st century U.S., Asian American literature, affect theory, critical theory, philosophy and literature

Dept of Physics

condensed matter theory, materials physics, nanoscience, physical chemistry, Electronic Structure Theory, Transport, Hard-Soft Interfaces, Complex Oxides, renewable energy, energy conversion

Felix Raoul Fischer

Felix Raoul Fischer

Dept of Chemistry

organic and inorganic materials chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, polymer chemistry, molecular electronics, scanning probe microscopy, graphene nanomaterials

Chris Martin with water in background

Christopher Martin

Dept of Integrative Biology

evolutionary biology, speciation, genomics, adaptation, craniofacial development

Kwabena Bediako in lab

Kwabena Bediako

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, electrochemistry, quantum transport, optoelectronics, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures

Evan R. Williams

Evan R. Williams

Dept of Chemistry

spectroscopy, molecular structure and dynamics, analytical chemistry, biophysical chemistry, structure and reactivity of biomolecules and biomolecule/water interactions, mass spectrometry, separations, protein conformation, protein and DNA sequencing

Professor Fleming in Photosynthesis Lab

Graham R. Fleming

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, proteins, chemical and biological dynamics in the condensed phase, ultrafast spectroscopy, liquids, solutions, glasses, photosynthetic proteins, role of solvents in chemical reactions, electronic energy transfer, electron transfer, regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting

Head shot of Jonah Levy

Dept of Political Science

French politics, comparative political economy, West European politics, relationship between partisanship and welfare reform in contemporary Western Europe, political science, social policy

Matt F. Traxler

Matt F. Traxler

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

bacterial interspecies interactions, specialized metabolism

Andreas Stahl sitting on red couch holding image

Dept of Metabolic Biology and Nutrition

metabolism, obesity, adipose tissue, brown fat, thermogenesis, diabetes, fatty acid transport, fatty acid, stem cells, microphysiological systems, lipid nanoparticles, liver disease

Rebecca W. Heald

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cell division, Xenopus, mitotic spindle assembly and function, size control of intracellular structures

Andrew Way Leong

Dept of English

19th century American literature, 20th and 21st century American literature, Asian American, Pacific, critical theory, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies

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William M Burton

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

Naomi Ginsberg photo 2026

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Physics

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

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

optoelectronics, quantum optics, optimization, Antennas, Biophysics and Sensing

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases