Faculty
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Tectonics and Structural Geology
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Theoretical cosmology I do research on cosmic inflation, dark energy, cosmic strings and monopoles, quantum cosmology, and the multiverse.
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Mahayana Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, religion in early South Asia, Chinese Religions, Anthropology of Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Sociology of Religious Philosophy
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Hyperbolic manifolds and orbifolds, low-dimensional topology, group actions
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Chinese Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Social linguistics, Curriculum design
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Chinese Language, Chinese characters, second language acquisition and pedagogy, and application of technology in language learning and instruction
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Chinese orthography and the Chinese reading process, utilizing approaches applied within a transactional socio-psycholinguistic framework that includes eye movement research and miscue analysis.
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Applied Cognition
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Education, race, ethnicity, immigration, Asian Americans, culture, inequality, qualitative methods
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Cinema and Moving Image Studies, Cinema History and Aesthetics, Visual Culture Studies
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French Art - Realism to Post-Impressionism History of Drawing, and Art on Film
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Crime, Law, Deviance; Sports; the Body; Research Methods
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Group theory, especially buildings and other geometric aspects of group theory
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learning sciences, engineering education, design practices, design discourse, project-based learning
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Clinical aspects of family and child development; pediatric and health psychology; stress and coping
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Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Meta-ethics, Aesthetics
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Professional communication, fieldwork education, professional development of emerging occupational therapists, interprofessional collaboration, complex medical pediatric occupational therapy, community-based practice
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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
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Fiction Writing Contemporary Jewish Literature
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Land use planning; local government law; natural resources policy
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Ecology and evolution of microbial communities
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Nineteenth-century American literature and culture Affect and emotion Politics of New Materialisms Sex, gender, sexuality Critical Theory Democracy, bureaucracy, populism
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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.
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epidemiologic methods
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Asian American studies; anti-racist education; community-based action
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Middle Period China, Late Imperial China, Women's History, the History of Material Culture
