Uganda

Kerry Cook

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Kerry Cook's research centers on predicting and understanding climate change and climate variability around the world, including Africa, South America, and the central U.S. Her group uses numerical models of the climate system, including atmosphere, ocean, and vegetation components, along with observational analysis to improve understanding about processes at the earth's surface interact with atmospheric circulation and precipitation fields.

Caroline Faria

Geography and the Environment, African and African Diaspora Studies

Caroline Faria's research examines three connected strands of work on neoliberal globalization, development, and nationalism. These are: 1) diasporic nationalism, violence and migration, 2) globalizing beauty trade networks, and 3) global retail capital and urban displacement. Her research focuses on Uganda and Mexico.

Michael Findley

Government, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Michael Findley's research addresses civil wars, terrorism, and development. Findley uses field experiments, statistical and computational models, and interviews.

Hans Hofmann

Integrative Biology, Pharmacy

Hans Hofmann's research seeks to understand the molecular and hormonal mechanisms that underlie social behavior and its evolution, using African cichlid fishes as the model system to address these questions because of their recent, repeated and rapid radiations that have resulted in hundreds of phenotypically diverse species.

Michael Hole

Medicine

Michael Hole is a physician, professor, entrepreneur and military officer. He teaches public policy, community engagement and entrepreneurship at The University of Texas at Austin and is involved with The Impact Factory, a social-entrepreneurship and community-service hub.

Scott Myers

Linguistics

Scott Myers' research is centered on the prosody of the language Luganda. He has written on formal models of phonology and morphology, particularly with respect to the Bantu languages of Africa, as well as focusing on experimental approaches to linguistic issues, in phonetics and phonology.

Daniel Nielson

Government, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Daniel Nielson's research focuses on international development, foreign aid, the control of corruption, and international organization. He specializes in the use of transnational field experiments to learn about causal effects in political economy.

James Patton

Special Education

James Patton's areas of activity include transition assessment and planning, differentiating instruction for students with special needs, study skills instruction, needs of college students with learning-related challenges, and issues associated with individual with disabilities who encounter the criminal justice system.

Karen Rayne

Education Psychology

Karen Rayne focuses on the efficacy of different kinds of sexuality education programs: teacher preparation for the sexuality education classroom, and differences between evidence-informed and evidence-based programs, and differences between teaching and facilitating within a sex-ed context.

Aaron Sandel

Anthropology

Aaron Sandel studies wild chimpanzees in Uganda. The focus of his research is on social relationships and physiology during adolescence and the transition to adulthood in male chimpanzees. In addition to primate behavior, Sandel works on topics related to biodiversity conservation and a variety of questions in human and primate evolution.

William Tierney

Medicine

William Tierney is internationally recognized for his research in biomedical informatics, health services and clinical database epidemiology. He also served as the founding director of informatics and research for the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), a 30-year collaboration of more than 20 North American universities with universities in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

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