Faculty

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Anomalous diffusion, mathematical neuroscience

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Product Design, Mechanical Design, Engineering Education, Electronic Portfolios, Assessment in Higher Education.

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Algebraic geometry, especially moduli of curves, logarithmic geometry, and tropical geometry

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structural engineering, concrete design, bridge analysis and design, structural analysis/design

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biophysics, collagen, protein structure

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Applied General Equilibrium Models, International Trade Policy, International Labor Standards, Child Labor

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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

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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

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Twentieth-Century/Contemporary Russian Literature and Culture; Narratives of War, Russian and Comparative; Reception studies; Sexuality

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Parent-child relations

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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.

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Journalism and Literature; Journalistic crónicas (chronicles); Modernismo and Vanguardia; 20th Century Fantastic Literature; Boom and Post-Boon; Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language.

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digital media, history, representation, videogames, 3d, painting

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Condensed Matter Physics

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Resource and Environmental Economics, Energy and Development, Water

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Computer architecture, parallel processing, computer networking, hardware description languages, simulation and programmable logic design, engineering education.

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Data visualization, visual analytics, human-computer interaction, databases, computer graphics

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Startup Entrepreneurship, Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Mission-Driven Ventures, Entrepreneurship Education

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tissue engineering, regenerative tissue applications

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sustainable energy, superconducting materials, materials science

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cyber security, web engineering

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drinking water quality and toxic materials, groundwater monitoring

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Energy and Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization

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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.

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Animal Cognition and Learning

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Enumerative and probabilistic combinatorics, graph theory, Markov chain Monte Carlo

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data science, software systems engineering, performance analysis, system, network, and data management

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data science, graph algorithms, distributed algorithms, approximate routing, classification and clustering for high-dimensional data, coloring and its generalizations, computational molecular biology

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Greek & Latin Language, Digital Humanities

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Neurodevelopmental disorders; autism spectrum disorder; sexuality education; social perception; eye tracking; dimensional measurement of psychological symptoms

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Population ecology and dynamics