Faculty
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Fluid mechanics, flow in the human body, hemodynamics, aneurysms, heart development, flow in tumors, cardiac assist devices
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Optimization and Control, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Graph Theory, Decentralized Algorithms
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Arts in post-colonial, post-war, migration and diasporic contexts; Music and dance in the formation of collective memory; Transnationalism and the performance of transitional and social justice; Digital humanities and digital sound archives; Soundscapes and the musical construction of Place; Southeast Asian performing arts; Intangible cultural heritage and globalization.
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Performance Studies; queer studies; South Asian studies
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Numerical Linear and Multilinear Algebra, Scientific Computing, Image Reconstruction and Restoration
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Ethics, Chinese philosophy
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Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics
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PDE analysis and computations, complex fluids, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling in physics and engineering, mathematical modeling in biology and medicine, bioinformatics, fluid dynamics, finite difference schemes.
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World capital markets
Exchange rate management
Foreign direct investment
Consequences of international capital controls
Effects of international factors on United States labor market
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Adolescence and young adulthood; identity development; personality development; narrative identity; quantitative methods (including structural equation models)
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Geology and hydrology of arid lands, coastal environmental change, natural hazards
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Japanese Language
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design of silicon-based mixed-mode VLSI systems (analog, digital, RF, optical), analog signal processing, and optoelectronic system-on-chip modeling and integration for applications in optical wireless communication and biomedical imaging
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engineering education research, learning and engagement in the university classroom, development of disciplinary practices, instructional design and technology development, instructional practices, organizational change, social practice theory
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Infectious diseases, global health, One Health, schistosomiasis, water infrastructure
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Planetary Chemical Analysis & Astrobiology -
In the search for life in our solar system over the past several decades, it has become increasingly clear that there may be multiple worlds besides Earth that either once had or may still have environments capable of supporting microbial life as we know it. Our current research is focused on two aspects of this search:
(1) In the search for life on Mars, one key question is; how are biologically-produced molecules (biomarkers) altered when exposed to solar ultraviolet radiation in the presence of oxychlorines and their intermediate formation products? To help answer this question we are investigating the "fragmentation" patterns of such altered biogenic compounds which could then be used to identify the original biomarker and thus provide evidence for life on Mars.
(2) We are developing in-situ analytical instrumentation that is designed to unambiguously detect microbial life and determine the habitability of planetary environments that may be present at the surface or subsurface of Mars, and the oceans of icy-worlds such as Saturn's moon Enceladus or Jupiter's moon Europa.
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biomechanics, applied mechanics, materials characterization, engineering education
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Clinical neuroscience
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medical device design and development
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Bioorganic, Biophysical, & Chemical Biology. Peptides and their mimetics can target protein surfaces in ways small molecules rarely do, making peptide libraries attractive for screening for nontraditional modes of action. The Kritzer research group takes advantage of peptide and peptidomimetic libraries to bypass many of the disadvantages of small molecule screening. They also explore how modifications such as substitution of peptide bonds with isosteres, amide N-methylation, and head-to-tail cyclization affect the activities, specificities, and bioavailabilities of functional peptides. By combining powerful techniques from organic synthesis, biophysical chemistry, molecular biology and genetics, they are developing new molecules and new strategies to attack cancer, inflammation, and autoimmune diseases.
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Inorganic Chemistry. Kinetics and mechanism of oxygen and hydrogen peroxide activation by metal complexes.
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design, behavior, and modeling of concrete structures
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Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
The research interests of the Kumar laboratory are centered on the (1) use of chemistry to design molecules to interrogate and illuminate fundamental mechanisms in biology, or be used as therapeutics; and (2) use of biology to "evolve" and "select" molecules that can perform chemistry in non-biological and medicinal settings.
These are some questions we are trying to answer: (i) Is it possible to design and mimic natural proteins and other biological macromolecules by use of building blocks that nature does not use – and whether such constructs can be endowed with properties that are not found in biology?; (ii) How did the first enzymes arise in the imagined Darwin's pond – is there a way to recreate this scenario and in the process develop a fundamentally new method to create enzymes?; (iii) Biology uses phase separation, that is, clustering of different compounds in confined locations – a process that is key in orchestrating the daily activities of a cell – can we find methods that can predictably dictate where molecules are located in a given environment and thereby direct the phenotype that is generated?; (iv) Can we rationally design small molecules and peptides that can function against antibiotic resistant bacteria that are threatening the most basic tenet of modern medicine?
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Cognitive Neuroscience, Language (semantics), Clinical cognitive neuroscience
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Applied Microeconomics
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Medical Device Design, Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Education, Thrombosis, Blood-material Interactions
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water resources, decision making under uncertainty, hydrologic statistics, integrated global change assessment
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Cybersecurity policy, Privacy, Communications Surveillance
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water, sanitation, hygiene, infectious diseases, developing countries, emergencies
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digital image processing, computer animation, swarm robotics, innovation, engineering method & design
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Expertise: Musicology; Research interests: 16th and 17th c. Music; the Cultural History of Philosophy; Stoicism and Neostoicism; Tone and Timbre; Mexican Music.
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Global history; decolonization; Cold War; South Asia; borderlands; international relations and global governance; internationalisms; transnational anti-colonialism
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metabolic engineering, tissue engineering, systems biology
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literature and drama of the English Renaissance; post-Reformation public culture; conversion; citizenship; migration and empire; classical reception; world literature; phenomenology of theater
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Film music, chromaticism, Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century art music, ambient music, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, transformation theory, neo-Riemannian theory, the symphony, and music aesthetics.
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machine design, nondestructive testing
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Number theory
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Negotiation, conflict management and resolution.
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The application of developmental science across the life span; developmental systems theory; personality and social development in adolescence; developmental methodology; programs and policies for children, youth, and families; university-community collaboration and outreach scholarship.
Developmental Science
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Neighborhood and community context; housing context; family context; poverty and socioeconomic status; social policy; adolescence; immigrant young children