Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: Physical and Surface Chemistry. The Utz group studies how molecules react on surfaces. Reactions at the gas-surface interface are highly dynamical events. Large-scale atomic and vibrational motions transform reactants into products on sub-ps and Å scales. The experiments probe ultrafast nuclear motion and energy flow dynamics that underlie heterogeneous catalysis and chemical vapor deposition. The goal is to to better model existing processes and direct the rational design of new catalytic materials and deposition techniques. The experiments use vibrational- and rotational-state selective laser excitation of molecules in a supersonic molecular beam to provide precise control over the energetics and orientation of the gas-phase reagent as it approaches the surface. Reaction probability and product identity is then quantified as a function of the reagent's energetic configuration. These experiments have shown that the vibrational state of the incident molecule can have a profound effect on reaction probability, and suggest that energy redisribution within the reaction complex is not complete prior to reaction and that the competing kinetics of energy redistribution and reaction might be manipulated to control the outcome of a reaction. This has been subsequently confirmed by exerting bond-elective control over a heterogeneously catalyzed reaction.

Research/Areas of Interest: Literature (fiction, drama, nonfiction) on the American Queer and BIPOC experience. Active inclusion. Latine theater and performance.

Research/Areas of Interest: Interaction of light with matter, physics of nanostructures and interfaces, metamaterials, material science, plasmonics, and surfactants, semiconductor photonics and electronics, epitaxial crystal growth, materials and devices for energy and infrared applications.

Research/Areas of Interest: Psychopathology Research Methods

Research/Areas of Interest: Petrology and Mineralogy

Research/Areas of Interest: Tectonics and Structural Geology

Research/Areas of Interest: Theoretical cosmology I do research on cosmic inflation, dark energy, cosmic strings and monopoles, quantum cosmology, and the multiverse.

Research/Areas of Interest: Composition Improvisation as performance Interdisciplinary collaborations Dance and anthropology Ungrading and non-traditional forms of assessment Teaching with technology Performance coaching for dancers and actors Dance theatre and musical theatre Dance preservation Applied Laban Movement Analysis theory Screendance Site-specific work

Research/Areas of Interest: Mahayana Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, religion in early South Asia, Chinese Religions, Anthropology of Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Sociology of Religious Philosophy

Research/Areas of Interest: Hyperbolic manifolds and orbifolds, low-dimensional topology, group actions

Research/Areas of Interest: Chinese Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Social linguistics, Curriculum design

Research/Areas of Interest: Chinese Language, Chinese characters, second language acquisition and pedagogy, and application of technology in language learning and instruction

Research/Areas of Interest: Chinese orthography and the Chinese reading process, utilizing approaches applied within a transactional socio-psycholinguistic framework that includes eye movement research and miscue analysis.

Research/Areas of Interest: Applied Cognition

Research/Areas of Interest: Education, race, ethnicity, immigration, Asian Americans, culture, inequality, qualitative methods

Research/Areas of Interest: Psychology of Language, Human Interaction

Research/Areas of Interest: Moving image Studies, Visual Culture Studies, Trauma and Memory Studies, Avant-garde and Non-Fiction Cinema, Cinematic Ontologies and Temporalities, Modernity Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: French Art - Realism to Post-Impressionism History of Drawing, and Art on Film

Research/Areas of Interest: Behavioral Neuroscience; Neurobiology of Stress & Addiction

Research/Areas of Interest: Crime, Law, Deviance; Sports; the Body; Research Methods

Research/Areas of Interest: Group theory, especially buildings and other geometric aspects of group theory

Research/Areas of Interest: learning sciences, engineering education, design practices, classroom discourse, engineering knowledge construction

Research/Areas of Interest: Clinical aspects of family and child development; pediatric and health psychology; stress and coping

Research/Areas of Interest: High intensity exercise as a change agent for sensory processing, self regulation, and social participation in neurodivergent children and youth

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

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

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: Fiction Writing Contemporary Jewish Literature