Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: Engineering Education, Human Robot Interaction, Mechanical Engineering, Music Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

Research/Areas of Interest: Stress Physiology and Field Endocrinology

Research/Areas of Interest: Catalytic Capital Community Investing Sustainable Finance Impact Measures Impact Investing for Racial Equity

Research/Areas of Interest: American Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, and Theories and Methods

Research/Areas of Interest: Judaic Studies, Film and Media Studies, ILVS, Middle Eastern Studies, Central European writers, South African writers, and World Literature

Research/Areas of Interest: Latin and Greek Epic; Roman Historiography

Research/Areas of Interest: Research in the Rotjan lab focuses on marine ecology and global change. The main goal is to examine how marine species, communities, and ecosystems respond to the complex multitude of stressors emerging in the contemporary world ocean, and how they will respond to the future ocean change that we expect in the coming decades. In other words, we take a multi-level and systems ecology approach to examining global change. We are also big fans of ocean exploration, which is critical and necessary to set and calibrate ecological baselines. We are a part of a growing global movement to democratize the oceans, making marine science and exploration accessible and available to all. We apply our science and exploration to conservation. Our simple credo is to help make the world a better place. Our lab is interested in two complementary dimensions of contemporary marine ecology: (1) ecological response to changing ocean dynamics, and (2) opportunities for human-mediated action via conservation, restoration, and/or management. To learn more, check out our lab website and click through our research pages, publications, news, members, etc.

Research/Areas of Interest: Anglophone literatures of Africa and the Africa Diaspora South Asian Literature Litertures of Empire Post-colonial Theory Feminist Theory Literary Theory

Research/Areas of Interest: Geometric Group Theory/Topology

Research/Areas of Interest: Twentieth century Latin American fiction; poetry and poetics; translation studies; song and songwriting; Jorge Luis Borges; Oulipo

Research/Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Language, Logic, Philosophy of Logic, History of Logic, Critical Thinking Pedagogy

Research/Areas of Interest: process control

Research/Areas of Interest: Silk chemistry and biomedical materials design, Biopolymers, Hydrogels

Research/Areas of Interest: Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean art and architecture, especially in the 1st millennium BCE; materiality studies; ancient magic and religion; reception and museum histories.

Research/Areas of Interest: materials engineering, materials science, manufacturing processes, quality control

Research/Areas of Interest: Extragalactic astrophysics How did galaxies and their central black holes co-evolve from the Big Bang to the present? Despite much progress through large scale galaxy surveys as well as ever more sophisticated numerical simulations, we are still hampered by the fact that much of the star-formation activity and black hole growth are buried in thick cocoons of dust and gas. Observations suggest that much of this activity took place in the past, before the Universe was half its present age, and likely involved mergers of nearly equal sized galaxies. As the merger progresses, gas and dust are more and more concentrated, triggering prodigious star-formation and gradually increasing accretion onto the central black hole (Active Galactic Nuclei or AGN). The process is short lived as supernovae- or AGN-driven winds lead to a 'blow-out' event which disperses the intervening gas and dust halting further star-formation and black hole growth. Indications that starbursts and AGN may regulate each other as above can be seen in the local correlation between the mass of a central black hole and the stellar mass of its host galaxy. The same galaxy observed at different stages of this process can appear very different. Therefore observations of different types of galaxies at different epochs and in different wavelength regimes are crucial to build a more complete understanding of the whole process.

Research/Areas of Interest: My research centers trans and nonbinary children and youth, focusing on how they imagine, inhabit, and transform gender, family, and belonging. I work alongside young people to challenge the rigid binaries that limit their lives, and I see research as a space for co-creation, joy, and justice. Through transdisciplinary approaches, I seek to expand our understanding of change—not as a fixed "path of development," but as the complex, shifting, and plural ways children and communities grow. At the core, my scholarship asks how we can build worlds where trans and queer youth not only exist, but thrive.

Research/Areas of Interest: Cloud computing, evolvability, debugging distributed systems.

Research/Areas of Interest: Bridge structural health monitoring, building train-induced vibrations, nondestructive testing of full-scale structures, fatigue life prediction of structures with nonproportional multi-axial loading.

Research/Areas of Interest: Contemporary Italian literature, gender and sexuality studies, queer studies, border studies, environmental humanities, second language acquisition.

Research/Areas of Interest: near-infrared spectroscopy, diffuse optical tomography

Research/Areas of Interest: Children's development as earth stewards, children's play, Approaches to children's challenging behaviors, religious and spiritual development across the lifespan, the arts in support of children's development.

Research/Areas of Interest: Labor Economics, Economics of Education

Research/Areas of Interest: Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Chemistry. The post-translational modification (PTM) of proteins is an essential cellular vocabulary that allows critical information to be communicated within and between cells. The Scheck lab pioneers new chemical biology tools that enable the decoding of PTM networks. We use these methods to unlock previously unattainable information about how PTMs are integrated into signaling networks in living cells. Our focus is on PTMs with unusual mechanisms that make them particularly complicated to study using traditional tools, which typically inhibit or profile specific enzyme activities. We use an integrated mass spectrometry and chemical biology approach to develop new, selective chemistries and chemical methods that can predictably modulate, track, or capture specific PTMs, like glycation, ubiquitination, or phosphate B-elimination. Learning how these signals are interpreted or degraded will provide access to new therapeutic targets for preventing or treating neurodegenerative diseases, bacterial infection, autoimmune disease, cancer, diabetes, and age-related diseases.

Research/Areas of Interest: Finance and banking in East Asia

Research/Areas of Interest: Artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive modeling, foundations of cognitive science, human-robot interaction, multi-scale agent-based models, natural language understanding.

Research/Areas of Interest: Print Media, Multiples, Performance, Sculpture, Installation, Site-Responsive Projects, Writing, Sound, Graphics, Publications, Ephemera

Research/Areas of Interest: 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone literature, Women's Studies, Film Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: Climate change and schooling, school-based mental health, human development, teaching and learning, adolescence, gender, equity in education, special education, qualitative research methods, child and adolescent literature and literacy, writing

Research/Areas of Interest: ethical leadership, social justice, and public speaking.

Research/Areas of Interest: Economics of Education, Labor Economics

Research/Areas of Interest: Geographic information system; urban geography; housing; critical GIS

Research/Areas of Interest: Housing; Education; Inequality; Policy Implementation; Community Development

Research/Areas of Interest: programming languages, software systems, concurrency, distributed information systems

Research/Areas of Interest: Clinical Neuroscience

Research/Areas of Interest: human-robot interaction, accessibility, robotics, human-in-the-loop machine learning, assistive technology Applying human-centered design and disability community values to the development, deployment, and evaluation of AI and machine learning for robotics, including: human-centered human-in-the-loop machine learning; disability-friendly assistive robotics; autonomous HRI in groups, public spaces, and other human-human contexts; and accessibility and disability inclusion in robotics education and the computing research community.

Research/Areas of Interest: Physical Chemistry and Surface Science. The Shultz group applies physics and chemistry to understand the inner workings of hydrogen bonding. Hydrogen bonding plays key roles in environmental, biological, and atmospheric chemistry. Our program has research thrusts in all three directions. We specialize both in devising environments that clearly reveal key interactions and in developing new instrumentation. The most recent focus is on icy surfaces and on clathrate formation. Probing the ice surface begins with a well-prepared single-crystal surface. We have unique capabilities for growing single-crystal ice from the melt and for and preparing any desired ice face. Our clean water efforts are aimed at developing new materials to fill the significant need for safe drinking water. According to the World Health Organization, over one billion people lack safe drinking water. Our program is based on using photo catalysts to capture readily available sunlight to turn pollutants into benign CO2 and water. We developed methods to grow ultra-nano (~2 nm) particles that have well-controlled surface structures and chemistry.

Research/Areas of Interest: Experimental development of novel semiconductor nanostructures for quantum information sciences. Tailoring crystal symmetry and strain at the nanoscale to produce next generation optoelectronic devices. AREAS OF RESEARCH EXPERTISE • MBE growth, chamber maintenance, and system support. • Low-temperature, high-field magnetoresistance quantized carrier/spin transport (quantum Hall effects, Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations, 1D quantized conductance, 0.7 structure, etc.). • Atomic force microscopy (AFM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and photoluminescence (PL), Raman spectroscopy, ellipsometry, Rutherford back scattering, etc. • Cleanroom-based micro/nanofabrication including photo- and e-beam-lithography, metallization, and device packaging