Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Meta-ethics, Aesthetics

Research/Areas of Interest: Professional communication, fieldwork education, professional development of emerging occupational therapists, interprofessional collaboration, complex medical pediatric occupational therapy, community-based practice

Research/Areas of Interest: human factors

Research/Areas of Interest: Seventeenth to twenty-first century German literature in its European context; Literature and the Environment, Discourses of Sustainability; Literary and Cultural Theory, Theories of Reading; Intersections of Literature, Science, and Philosophy; Media Studies, Aesthetics of the Human Voice; Post-dramatic Theater; History of Germanistik in the United States 1933-1945

Research/Areas of Interest: Land use planning; local government law; natural resources policy

Research/Areas of Interest: I study neutrinos---the smallest, and wackiest, of the known fundamental particles in the universe. Unlike any of the other basic particles we know about—including the more familiar ones, like the electron, as well as the quarks that make up protons and neutrons—the three known types of neutrinos are simultaneously both stable (don't undergo radioactive decay) and yet likely to exchange their identities with each other while traveling along. We think these "neutrino oscillations" likely have important consequences for what we can learn about really deep questions in physics: like why the universe is made almost entirely of matter, and almost no antimatter; how (and why) particles get mass in the first place; and why it is that fundamental particles seem to always come in threes. I'm a collaborator (and hold leadership positions) on two large-scale neutrino oscillation experiments hosted at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab): NOvA (https://novaexperiment.fnal.gov) and DUNE (https://www.dunescience.org/). Big particle physics experiments like NOvA and DUNE use "big data" (companion experiments at the Large Hadron Collider produce real-time data that's orders of magnitude more information than Netflix!), and I'm also interested in the infrastructure and analysis techniques we use to analyze that data. How we use data analysis tools, from big C++ frameworks to standalone Python notebooks based on numpy, has big implications for how efficiently we can do science. Finally, particle physics's huge collaborations and distributed management structures present challenges for mentoring and developing scientists-in-training, from undergraduate researchers to postdocs. I'm fascinated by how we learn in these modified apprentice-expert situations, and am thinking about how to apply the existing research on mentoring in higher education to this unique context.

Research/Areas of Interest: Ecology and evolution of microbial communities

Research/Areas of Interest: Nineteenth-century American literature and culture Affect and emotion Politics of New Materialisms Sex, gender, sexuality Critical Theory Democracy, bureaucracy, populism

Research/Areas of Interest: My current focus is on measuring the properties of the neutrino, one of the fundamental particles of the Standard Model. We know a few things about the neutrino: it has a very small mass, has no electric charge, comes in three types — or flavors — and interacts only via the weak force and gravity. However, there are many things we do not know. What is the exact mass of the neutrino? And how does it get its mass? Are the three we know about the only kinds that exist? Answers to these questions impact not only our understanding of the fundamental laws of matter but also have consequences for our understanding of how the universe evolved. These and many other questions make the neutrino a fascinating particle. However, as mentioned above, neutrinos interact only via the weak force. They interact so rarely that, at the energies, we typically work with, neutrinos can pass through light-years long block of lead without striking it. This makes neutrino experiments challenging as we need to build massive, building-sized detectors which are instrumented with relatively, low-cost sensors. However, the challenge is often fun, as we are often forced to apply the newest technologies in both hardware and software to design and complete our experiments.

Research/Areas of Interest: epidemiologic methods

Research/Areas of Interest: Middle Period China, Late Imperial China, Women's History, the History of Material Culture

Research/Areas of Interest: biomaterials, drug delivery, micro/nanofabrication, tissue engineering

Research/Areas of Interest: Japanese Linguistics and Pedagogy

Research/Areas of Interest: nanobiofabrication, smart biopolymers, BioMEMS, material science

Research/Areas of Interest: Applied Urban, Housing, Education, Environmental, and Labor economics.

Research/Areas of Interest: In my work, I access contemporary social issues by making connections with personal narratives, history, and popular culture. I freely combine research methodologies and artistic strategies from various disciplines such as photography, documentary, graphic design, performance, storytelling, installation, and social interventions. My work is project based. I draw from academic research as much as intuitive explorations in the graphic arts. I explore projects over the span of several years the work can transform into exhibitions, installations, publications, performances and street happenings. . As I approach my work from a conceptual frame, the form is wide ranging; fabric banners, to ceramic plates, oil paintings produced in factories, resin cast sculptures and news media ads. Often the project culminates in an artist's publication. Educated as a designer I've used the computer since the mid-80s and was actively participating in the digital revolution that came through image manipulation software, desktop publishing, internet communication, web publishing and more recently mass customization. Text and language is an inherent part of my work; interviews, personal narrative, found text, all have the potential to contextualize the imagery. The book format allows me to develop an idea in much greater detail and create dialogues outside art establishments where it can reach a wider audience. With my collaborator (and husband) Mike Mandel, I actively interact with the media as part of the work. We have given press conferences and staged street events to open the work to a non-art audience. . Under the imprint of Eighteen Publications, Mike and I have self-published several artist's books. Our combined skills in photo, graphic design, printing and publishing enables us the artistic freedom from the industry. We are committed to create works of art that are cheap and accessible to a wider audience. As my studio practice evolves, I have embraced the rapid changes in technology and in recent years I've also used print-on-demand technology and Risography along with offset printing to produce and distribute my work.

Research/Areas of Interest: Modern and Contemporary U.S. Latinx and Mexican art; Latin American art; Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora

Research/Areas of Interest: Arabic pedagogy and curriculum design, Language and Literacy acquisition K-12, and Arabic modern literature

Research/Areas of Interest: machine learning; natural language processing; audio signal processing; data analytics

Research/Areas of Interest: Inorganic chemistry, Organometallic chemistry, Photochemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry. Transition metal complexes are crucial for catalysis, energy conversion, and biological functions. Our research group is dedicated to synthesizing innovative transition metal complexes for sustainable applications. Our main research interests include: 1) developing molecular inorganic complexes for solar energy conversion; 2) exploring organometallic catalysis and small molecule activation; and 3) investigating the mechanisms underlying significant natural and industrial processes.

Research/Areas of Interest: medical devices, new product development, biomaterials, polymer chemistry, analytical chemistry

Research/Areas of Interest: Modern Chinese Literature, Chinese Culture, Film

Research/Areas of Interest: novel polymer electrolytes for batteries, liquid crystal polymers, composite materials, materials science