Faculty

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

Research/Areas of Interest: cyber security

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.

Research/Areas of Interest: Animal Cognition and Learning

Research/Areas of Interest: Dr. Corlin is an environmental epidemiologist who develops and applies cutting-edge epidemiological and exposure assessment methods to characterize and mitigate the health effects of exposure to environmental toxicants among vulnerable populations.

Research/Areas of Interest: Enumerative and probabilistic combinatorics, graph theory, Markov chain Monte Carlo

Research/Areas of Interest: Ryan's research lies at the intersection of control theory, machine learning, and robotics, with the goal of enabling provably safe and dynamic robot autonomy in uncertain real-world settings. His work bridges theory and practice through the development of risk-aware control frameworks, efficient deployable algorithms, and validation on a wide range of robot platforms. His ultimate goal is to create safety methods that inspire trust and provide us with the confidence needed to deploy high-performance autonomous robots at scale. **Recruiting new PhD students for admission in Fall 2026.**

Research/Areas of Interest: data science, software systems engineering, performance analysis, system, network, and data management

Research/Areas of Interest: computational molecular biology, data science, graph algorithms, network science, discrete mathematics

Research/Areas of Interest: Greek & Latin Language, Digital Humanities

Research/Areas of Interest: Neurodevelopmental disorders; autism spectrum disorder; sexuality education; social perception; eye tracking; dimensional measurement of psychological symptoms

Research/Areas of Interest: Population ecology and dynamics

Research/Areas of Interest: human-robot interaction with a focus on the educational applications of robotics and diversity in engineering education

Research/Areas of Interest: Adolescent and Young Adult Brain Tumor Survivor Research, General Adolescent and Young Adult Care, Early Childhood Development and Treatment, Community Based Practice

Research/Areas of Interest: Global Christianity American Religious History Religion, Humanitarianism and Philanthropy Religion, Health and Healing Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity Religion and Reform Movements Gender and Women's Studies in Religion

Research/Areas of Interest: My research interest in epidemiology is the etiology of perinatal retina and brain disease. I am particularly interested in a scenario that postulates a major role for intrauterine infection as an initiator of maternal and fetal inflammatory responses that, in turn, contribute to the development of brain white matter damage and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) among preterm newborns. I have been R21 and R01-funded by the National Eye Institute to study inflammatory biomarkers and ROP. In philosophy, my area of interest is causal inference and etiological explanation. My two books in this field are "Causation in Population Health Informatics and Data Science" (Springer, 2019), co-authored with philosopher Ben Smart, and "Etiological Explanations" (CRC Press, 2020).

Research/Areas of Interest: design, implementation, and evaluation of different educational technologies

Research/Areas of Interest: Biopharma strategy, regulation, & policy

Research/Areas of Interest: Coupled Human-Natural Systems, Computational Social Science, Human Mobility and Interaction, Climate Change Adaptation, Fire Ecology, Technological Organization, Serious Games

Research/Areas of Interest: Human dimensions of environmental change; socio-ecological system governance; equitable sustainability transformations; community resilience; coastal and marine systems

Research/Areas of Interest: I am interested in synthesis and characterization in inorganic and materials chemistry. I am especially interested in fundamental or applied chemistry that has important societal implications. My research laboratory has ongoing projects in several areas: Zero-emissions ironmaking. The synthesis of iron metal from iron ore contributes ca. 4% of global carbon dioxide emissions. I am interested in alternative thermochemical methods, such as the use of ammonia, for making iron from iron oxides. This project has extended to other critical metals also. Thin-film photovoltaics with earth-abundant, sulfide-based absorber layers. Thin-film photovoltaics (solar cells) provide electricity from sunlight with just a few hundred nm of light-absorbing material. We are exploring binary and ternary sulfides as top-cell materials for tandem photovoltaics. Earth-abundant molecular light absorbers and emitters. Molecular light absorbers and emitters are used in photoredox catalysis, dye-sensitized solar cells, and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). We are exploring high-spin complexes of iron and manganese to prepare new molecules that absorb and emit light. I am developing new research programs in other areas: New superconducting materials. Near-room-temperature superconductors have recently been realized in compressed hydrides. I am interested in new hydride compounds that are stable at ambient pressure and might serve as ambient-pressure, ambient-temperature superconductors. Volatile molecules carrying metal-atom equivalents for superconducting wires. Cryogenic superconducting wires enable quantum bits based on Josephson junctions. We are developing new molecules and methods to deposit the electropositive metals that make up these wires from chemical vapors.

Research/Areas of Interest: Labor economics, public health, nursing

Research/Areas of Interest: Stress Physiology, Animal Behavior, Wildlife Endocrinology, Conservation Physiology, Active Learning Strategies, Evidence-Based Pedagogy & Best Practices

Research/Areas of Interest: Languages for specific purposes

Research/Areas of Interest: Cognition and Psycholinguistics

Research/Areas of Interest: Organizational Leadership Lived Experiences of CDOs

Research/Areas of Interest: Contemporary poetry and poetics; feminist and queer studies; studies of race and racialization; Indigenous studies; the critique of political economy; literary theory; aesthetic theory.

Research/Areas of Interest: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Ethics

Research/Areas of Interest: Marketing productivity, sales, business planning.

Research/Areas of Interest: heterogeneous catalysis, sustainable production of chemicals and fuels, DFT calculations

Research/Areas of Interest: The Ding Group develops and uses computational approaches to solve problems in chemistry and biophysics. We currently focus on the following two areas. 1. Computational drug design. We aim to accelerate drug design by developing fast and accurate methods for computing protein-ligand binding free energy. To do that, we combine ideas and methods from molecular simulations, statistical mechanics and machine learning. 2. Force field development. We aim to develop a transferable and accurate coarse-grained force field for simulating large biophysical systems.

Research/Areas of Interest: causal cognition, philosophy of science, metascience, methods