Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: Hilary's current research aims to support the development of educational equity and access as a form of racial and economic justice. In addition to a formative research study on the impact and efficacy of higher education in prison programming, Hilary's recent research includes a longitudinal study of reentry and the impact of specific types of programming offered in MyTERN on a person's health and well-being. Along with her research partner Professor of Sociology Jill Weinberg, she has facilitated several student publications of their own work based on their involvement with TUPIT.

Research/Areas of Interest: cardiovascular tissue engineering, dynamic tissue mechanics and visualization, computational modeling, myocardial infarction, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, cardiogenesis

Research/Areas of Interest: -Agricultural development -Economic growth -Political economy -Development economics, particularly food and agricultural policy, growth, and political economy

Research/Areas of Interest: Applied dynamical systems, applied probability theory, kinetic theory, agent-based modeling, mathematical models of the economy, theoretical and computational fluid dynamics, complex systems science, quantum computation Current research emphasis is on mathematical models of economics in general, and agent-based models of wealth distributions in particular. The group's work has shed new light on the tendency of wealth to concentrate, and has discovered new results for upward mobility, wealth autocorrelation, and the flux of agents and wealth. The group's mathematical description of the phenomenon of oligarchy has also shed new light on functional analysis in general and distribution theory in particular. Secondary projects include new directions in lattice Boltzmann and lattice-gas models of fluid dynamics, kinetic theory, and quantum computation.

Research/Areas of Interest: Anomalous diffusion, mathematical neuroscience

Research/Areas of Interest: Product Design, Educational Robotics, Mechanical Design, Engineering Education, Electronic Portfolios & Assessment

Research/Areas of Interest: Areas of Specialization: Modern Jewish thought; Jewish law and ethics; philosophy of religion; moral, legal and political philosophy. Areas of Competence: Medieval Jewish thought; rabbinic literature; pragmatism; 20th century philosophy; theories of religion.

Research/Areas of Interest: Engineering management, semiconductor manufacturing yields, knowledge management, engineering leadership

Research/Areas of Interest: Geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology, CAT(0) spaces

Research/Areas of Interest: structural engineering, concrete design, bridge analysis and design, structural analysis/design

Research/Areas of Interest: International marketing, creative leadership, leadership development.

Research/Areas of Interest: biophysics, collagen, protein structure

Research/Areas of Interest: African American Literature and Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Black Disability Studies, Affect Theory, Black Feminist Thought, Political Theory, Black Visual Cultures, Critical Race Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: Applied General Equilibrium Models, International Trade Policy, International Labor Standards, Child Labor

Research/Areas of Interest: Supply chain management, process improvement.

Research/Areas of Interest: Arts, music and drama education and its impact on youth development in formal and informal settings; the development of arts programming to support positive development, cultural identity and resilience among youths in underserved communities; arts and social justice; family influences on children's learning and social development; quantitative and qualitative methods of research and mixed methods designs; program evaluation

Research/Areas of Interest: Opera: staging, visuality, theatricality, performance and spectatorship. Film and Media Studies: sound and music editing; aesthetics and politics of synchronization; aurality of silent film; suture; Foley; Renoir, Ophuls, Visconti and Fellini; music video and animation

Research/Areas of Interest: Twentieth-Century/Contemporary Russian Literature and Culture; Narratives of War, Comparative Literature; Reception studies

Research/Areas of Interest: Spanish Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, Translation, Audiovisual Translation, Curriculum Design for All.

Research/Areas of Interest: Parent-child relations

Research/Areas of Interest: Chemistry and STEM Education. In order to understand how and why successful teaching and learning of chemistry at the university level works, the Caspari research group focuses on analyzing students', teaching assistants' (TA), learning assistants' (LA), and instructors' reasoning, interactions, and culture. The group collects video data of classroom practices and conducts qualitative research interviews with instructors, TAs, LAs, and students to better understand how certain interactions and ways of reasoning lead to student sense making and learning. While zooming in and investigating how students connect aspects of chemistry, the group also zooms out and investigates classroom culture and how individual interactions and personal experiences integrate into larger systems of teaching and learning. The group uses this fundamental research as a theoretical basis for implementing teaching innovations and designing training opportunities in order to promote supportive learning environments for students that value and encourage their unique ways of being, knowing and doing.

Research/Areas of Interest: Journalism and Literature; Journalistic crónicas (chronicles); Modernismo and Vanguardia; 20th Century Fantastic Literature; Boom and Post-Boom; Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language.

Research/Areas of Interest: digital media, history, representation, videogames, 3d, painting

Research/Areas of Interest: Condensed Matter Physics

Research/Areas of Interest: Resource and Environmental Economics, Energy and Development, Water

Research/Areas of Interest: Computer architecture, parallel processing, computer networking, hardware description languages, simulation and programmable logic design, engineering education.

Research/Areas of Interest: Data visualization, visual analytics, human-computer interaction, databases, computer graphics

Research/Areas of Interest: Water quality modeling, numerical methods, advanced computer applications in environmental engineering.

Research/Areas of Interest: Startup Entrepreneurship, Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Mission-Driven Ventures, Entrepreneurship Education, Robotics, AI and the future of work

Research/Areas of Interest: tissue engineering, regenerative tissue applications

Research/Areas of Interest: sustainable energy, superconducting materials, materials science

Research/Areas of Interest: cyber security, web engineering

Research/Areas of Interest: Food access, environments, and security; Welfare; Built environment and health; Citizen science; American Medical Directories

Research/Areas of Interest: drinking water quality and toxic materials, groundwater monitoring

Research/Areas of Interest: Energy and Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization

Research/Areas of Interest: Analytical Chemistry, Separations, Mass Spectrometry, RNA Modifications, Neuro-analytical Chemistry. Our group is interested in the characterization of RNA modifications in the central nervous system and single cells. These naturally occurring modifications to RNA biopolymers play important roles in regulating protein translation, but little is known about their functions in the brain. We are focused on developing new approaches for chromatographic separations and mass spectrometry measurements of in small-volume samples such that they can be applied for the simultaneous profiling of multiple RNA modifications in single neurons. The Clark Lab is particularly interested in ionic liquid solvents and ion-tagged oligonucleotides as customizable materials for nucleic acid sample preparation that can be leveraged to improve the performance of downstream analysis methods. We combine our analytical methodologies with a powerful neurobiological model, the marine mollusk Aplysia californica, to investigate relationships between the dynamic landscape of RNA modifications and animal behavior, learning and memory, and function of the central nervous system in health and disease.