Faculty

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Gospel Choir

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Criminology; sociology of law; crime and media

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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, 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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Sustainability, conservation, urban ecological systems, commute mode shift, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure planning and design

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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

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Latin American History; Immigration, Race, and American Society

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Comparative Politics, Latin America

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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

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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).

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Pep Band

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

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I am interested in synthesis and characterization in inorganic and materials chemistry. I am especially interested in fundamental chemistry that has important societal implications.

My research laboratory currently works in several areas:

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.

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.

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 new sources of earth-abundant photovoltaics.

I am developing new research programs 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 of making iron from iron oxides.

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.

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Foreign Language Education

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Environmental health; occupational health; economic analysis

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Stress Physiology, Animal Behavior, Wildlife Endocrinology, Conservation Physiology, Active Learning Strategies, Evidence-Based Pedagogy & Best Practices

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Cognition and Psycholinguistics

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Moral philosophy; philosophy of mind; philosophy of film; the perspectives of philosophical naturalism; the free-will controversy; theory of action; metaphysics; philosophy and cognitive science; history of Renaissance and early modern philosophy

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Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Ethics

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Political Theory