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Paul Adams

Geography and the Environment, American Studies

Paul Adams' research focuses on physical and virtual aspects of sense of place, attention-capture and surveillance by digital media, people’s responses to attention-capture and surveillance, discourses on environmental risk and change, representations of climate adaptation and mitigation, and critical cartography.

Dean Almy

Architecture

Dean Almy's research is focused upon the relationship between cities, landscapes, and the integration of urban systems in response to climate change.

Jean Barrera

Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Jean Barrera is a working musician who also teaches the music and history of Conjunto music. He has performed around the world and is the innovator of the first National Reso-phonic Bajo Sexto.

Andrew Blumberg

Mathematics

Andrew Blumberg's research interests include algebraic topology, geometric data analysis (with focus on cancer genomics and evolutionary biology), and outsourced verifiable computation.

Hans Boas

Germanic Studies, Linguistics, Linguistics Research Center

Hans C. Boas' main research revolves around the relationship between syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, and the structure of the lexicon, which he approaches from a contrastive perspective (English/German). The theoretical frameworks he works with are primarily Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics with a strong bias towards corpus-based research methods.

Mark Budolfson

Geography and the Environment, Philosophy

Mark Budolfson integrates data and methods from multi-disciplines including population-level bioethics, public health, welfare economics, and empirical sciences. This work often involves quantitative policy analyses that represent socioeconomic and health inequalities, weigh competing values and objectives for society, and assess synergies and tradeoffs between goals related to health, equity, and sustainable development.

Charles Carson

Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Charles Carson is a musicologist whose interests are African-American/American expressive cultures, popular music, jazz, film music, and music and culture.

Jessica Ciarla

Textiles and Apparel, Human Ecology

Jessica Ciarla's research focuses on the function of textiles and apparel in the fashion industry.

Penelope Davies

Art and Art History

Penelope Davies specializes in the architectural history of ancient Rome. She has published numerous articles and essays in scholarly publications about Roman art and architecture.

Penelope Davis

Art and Art History

Penelope Davies specializes in the architectural history of ancient Rome. She has published numerous articles and essays in scholarly publications about Roman art and architecture.

Bjorn Engquist

Mathematics

Bjorn Engquist's areas of interest are applied mathematics, computational science, and numerical analysis.

Juliana Felkner

Architecture

Juliana Felkner's research interests include the role of the built environment in addressing some of society's greatest challenges through the efficient use of land, construction materials and energy. The tall building serves as an application for her research on integrating design and technology to improve urban conditions, building performance, and human comfort.

Paulo Ferreira

Mechanical Engineering

Paulo Ferreira's research is focused on the study of the atomic structure and defect behavior of nanomaterials, used for alternative energy technologies, through in-situ and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy techniques. Ferreira is interested in understanding the relationships between the structure and the properties of nanomaterials, and the underlying mechanisms of structural and property changes induced by crystalline defects.

Shiv Ganesh

Communication Studies

Shiv Ganesh studies communication and collective organizing in the context of globalization and digital technologies. His work spans critical-institutional and poststructural approaches to communication, and is currently comprised of two strands; studies of technological transformations in collective action; and studies of dialogue, conflict and social change.

Thomas Garrison

Geography and the Environment, Anthropology

Thomas Garrison’s research interests include remote sensing, Maya civilization, landscape archaeology, Mesoamerican archaeology, and geographic information systems.

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima

Psychology, Medicine, Pharmacy

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima's lab focuses on the mission to prevent neurocognitive and emotional disorders, understand the underlying brain mechanisms, and advance innovative non-invasive treatments. Areas of research interest include transcranial infrared brain stimulation, near infrared spectroscopy, neurocognitive enhancement, mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase, dementia, bipolar disorder and neurotherapeutics.

Benjamin Gregg

Government

Benjamin Gregg's research focuses on social and political theory, bioethics of human genetic engineering, politics of artificial intelligence, and human rights.

Maria Gualdani

Mathematics

Maria Gualdani's research interests include nonlinear partial differential equations, existence and qualitative analysis, kinetic theory, and mean field games.

Patrick Heimbach

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Patrick Heimbach is a computational oceanographer, climate scientist, and hobby glaciologist. His main research interest is understanding the general circulation of the ocean, the dynamics of the marine (and marine-terminating) cryosphere, and their role in the global climate system.

Noah Isenberg

Radio-Television-Film

Noah Isenberg's areas of expertise include media studies, criticism and history of the film industry, identity and representation in film, classical Hollywood film, independent cinema, Weimar cinema (German cinema), and émigrés in Hollywood.

Sirkka Jarvenpaa

Information, Risk, and Operations Management, Business, Technology, and Law

Sirkka Jarvenpaa's research and teaching interests include global innovation management, inter-organizational and inter-personal collaborations and innovations in fast-paced and technologically advanced data and knowledge environments with regulatory and policy implications.

Smyth Johansson

Germanic Studies

Smyth Johansson's research interests lie within language and culture, Scandinavian Studies, language pedagogy, and second language acquisition. Johansson is especially interested in mind, brain and education research and how it translates into instructional design, as well as the intersection of language instruction, autonomous learning and technology.

Patricia Johansson

Germanic Studies

Patricia Johansson’s research interests lie within language and culture, Scandinavian Studies, language pedagogy, and second language acquisition. Johansson is especially interested in mind, brain and education research and how it translates into instructional design, as well as the intersection of language instruction, autonomous learning and technology.

Min Kyung Lee

Information

Min Kyung Lee's research investigates the societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and how to design AI to be fairer, participatory, and a tool for social good.

Xiaoqin "Elaine" Li

Physics

Elaine Li's research focuses on using laser spectroscopy methods to investigate new materials on the nanoscale or individual nanoparticles, quasiparticles, and collective excitations. 

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Marie Monfils

Psychology

Marie Monfils' research focuses on investigating post-consolidation manipulations that can persistently attenuate fear memories, isolating the factors that underlie social transmission of information, and assessing individual differences and their impact on fear attenuation.

Andreas Mueller

Economics

Andreas Mueller's research interests include issues in macroeconomics, labor economics, and monetary economics.

Jeannette Okur

Middle Eastern Studies

Jeannette Okur's research interests lie in the fields of comparative literature, literary translation, and film studies. Her research explores the relationships between perpetrators and victims of political violence in transnational novels by Turkish and Iraqi-Kurdish writers in exile.

Robert Olwell

History

Robert Olwell's research and teaching interests are focused on the 18th-century British-Atlantic World and the early American South. Particular subjects of interest are slavery, abolition, the American Revolution, and the British-American Empire.

Thomas Palaima

Classics

Thomas Palaima has written and taught extensively on the subjects of ancient writing systems, the reconstruction of ancient culture, decipherment theory, Greek language, war and violence, ancient religion and rituals, song as a means of communicating social criticism, and intertextuality.

Sam Payne

Mathematics

Sam Payne’s research focuses on the development and application of combinatorial methods in algebraic geometry, especially through connections to tropical geometry and nonarchimedean analytic spaces. This includes techniques to give new insights into the topology of moduli spaces of curves and cohomology of mapping class groups.

Nicholas Peppas

Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Modern Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, Pediatrics, Surgery, Medicine

Nikolaos Peppas' research blends modern molecular and cellular biology with engineering to generate next-generation systems and devices, including bio-microelectromechanical systems with enhanced applicability, reliability, functionality and longevity.

Sharmila Rudrappa

Sociology

Sharmila Rudrappa teaches and researches on issues related to gender, race, and labor. Her specific interests are on reproductive markets in the U.S. and India.

Jason Shumake

Psychology

Jason Shumake’s primary research interest is building models from longitudinal data sets to classify and predict behavior and responses to interventions. He is particularly interested in using statistical and machine learning algorithms to search for novel combinations of genetic, neural, and behavioral features that predict treatment response.

Sharon Strover

Radio-Television-Film, Journalism and Media

Sharon Strover's research examines local and statewide networks and broadband services, such as the relationship between economic outcomes and investments in digital media programs in higher education and with social media. She also investigates the digital divide in terms of rural broadband and telecommunications infrastructure deployment related to economic development in these regions. She also works on issues with artificial intelligence.

Takashi Tanaka

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Takashi Tanaka’s research focus is on efficient and reliable real-time decision-making algorithms for autonomous robots and humans. He specializes in stochastic and non-stochastic optimal control, robust control, distributed and networked control, optimization, and game theory. His recent research activities explore the interface between control theory and information theory.

Sharon Vaughn

Special Education

Sharon Vaughn investigates effective interventions for students with reading difficulties and students who are English language learners.

Lynn Wilkinson

Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Lynn Wilkinson specializes in Scandinavian and comparative literature along with Scandinavian drama and film, focusing on themes of modernism, narrative traditions, gender, and literary and cultural theory.

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