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| Faculty | Department | College/Library | Position | Research Description | Research Opportunities for: | Research Training Program Affiliation |
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| Anthropology | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Professor | Indigenous languages, language description, language documentation, community-based approaches to language documentation and revitalization. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates |
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| Psychology | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Assistant Professor | The Legal Attitudes (LA) Lab examines factors that may impact children and adults in the legal system. Specifically, our research examines factors that affect children's performance during legal interviews and how those factors affect jurors' evaluations | Undergraduates Graduates | NIH Bridges to the Doctorate, U-RISE |
| Biological Sciences | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Professor | Our group works on evolutionary and conservation related questions, employing genomic and computational approaches. Our primary study system is marine fish, with specific projects looking at speciation, phylogenetics, and population structure. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | LSAMP, NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate, NIH Bridges to the Doctorate, U-RISE |
| Biological Sciences | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Assistant Professor | I use molecular biology and microscopy to investigate why animals look the way they do. I am currently focused on studying development of the vertebrate skin and its appendages, using zebrafish scales as a model system. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Biological Sciences | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Assistant Professor | My lab studies how differences between fruit fly species are encoded in their DNA by combing genetics, molecular biology, cell and developmental biology, and computational biology. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | LSAMP, U-RISE |
| Criminal Justice | Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services | Assistant Professor | I am a policing scholar who focuses on police dispatchers, crime analysis, as well as discretion and decision-making. Further, I am a mixed-methodologist who uses a variety of data sources such as admin data, body-worn camera footage, and dispatch audio. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Management | College of Business and Economics | Assistant Professor | Under the MGMT 5995 capstone course umbrella graduate research projects on healthcare organizations and the U.S. healthcare ecosystem: payers, providers, and producers. All projects have societal impacts. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| History | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Professor | History of Russia, 19th, 20th, and 21st century (gender, international relations, and religion). | Graduates | |
| Biological Sciences | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Associate Professor | We study the effect of climate change (such as increase drought and temperatures) on plant function, structure, and evolution. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | LSAMP, U-RISE |
| History | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Professor | History of U.S. international relations and empire, especially in the 20th century; history of U.S. multinational corporations; scholarship on K-16 history teaching and learning using qualitative and quantitative methods. | Undergraduates Graduates | |
| English | College of Arts and Letters | Professor | My scholarship entails a quantitative study of stylistic features of generative AI writing. | Undergraduates Graduates | |
| Psychology | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Assistant Professor | Using a sociocultural approach to focus on equity and inclusion, my lab designs, implements, and evaluates educational interventions—including mobile technology—that are intended to advance STEM outcomes by bolstering individuals’ core cognitive processes. | Undergraduates Graduates | NIH Bridges to the Doctorate, U-RISE |
| Communication Studies | College of Arts and Letters | Associate Professor | Impact of digital communication technologies and social media on social relations, cultural practices, and power dynamics, LGBTQ/queer storytelling, temporality. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Economics | College of Business and Economics | Associate Professor | My research focuses on housing segregation and the disparate impact of economic shocks on disadvantaged communities, and on gender-based violence, crimes against minorities, homelessness and other unequal impacts of various programs and policies. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Communication Studies | College of Arts and Letters | Professor | My area of research is in palliative care, communication skill training, health literacy practices, and family caregiving for cancer patients and people living with dementia. I often mentor undergraduate, graduate, and early career nurse scientists. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Physics & Astronomy | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Assistant Professor | My lab investigates the Solar System’s planets focusing on the surface composition of Saturn’s and Jupiter’s satellites and the atmospheres of Venus, Mars and Titan, using ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | U-RISE |
| Latin American Studies, History | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Professor | My research focuses on: 1. food history of the Americas; 2. revolutionary and social movements in Latin America; 3. the politics of K-12 classes in gender and ethnic studies. | Undergraduates | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship |
| Communication Disorders | Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services | Associate Professor | Dr. Ellis conducts research on word learning abilities of young late talkers and examines long-term outcomes of early language delay and caregiver support strategies. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | SPROUT |
| Kinesiology | Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services | Associate Professor | My research interests are in cardiorespiratory exercise physiology, specifically metabolic testing and wearable technology in the aquatic environment. | Undergraduates Graduates | |
| Economics and Statistics | College of Business and Economics | Assistant Professor | Health economist work on risky behaviors, drugs, mental health, and crime. Recent papers have been published in top field journals. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Accounting | College of Business and Economics | Associate Professor | My research focus is on US federal taxation. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| History | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Assistant Professor | I am a historian of early modern China. My research focuses on the push-and-pull factors (i.e., social, economic, cultural, political, and environmental) that led private individuals and the imperial state to engage in maritime activities. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Political Science | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Assistant Professor | Political science, data analysis, qualitative and quantitative methods. | Undergraduates Graduates | |
| Psychology | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Professor | Large-scale research to help K12 & college students gain flexible transferrable knowledge in STEM domains (e.g., statistics, math, coding). | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | NIH Bridges to the Doctorate, U-RISE |
| Biological Sciences | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Assistant Professor | The Roa Lab combines comparative animal physiology and immunofluorescence microscopy to investigate basic principles of cell biology. | Undergraduates Graduates | U-RISE |
| Geography, Geology, and Environment | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Associate Professor | Dr. Li's research interests focus on bridging water resources/hydrology and remote sensing to improve the understanding of hydrologic variables using satellite data, GIS, and information technologies in hydrology and water resources. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Civil Engineering | College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology | Assistant Professor | Coastal engineering, compound events, numerical modeling, multivariate statistics, flooding. | Undergraduates Graduates | |
| Geography, Geology, and Environment | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Assistant Professor | I study Earth surface processes, mainly in coastal and glacier environments, using geophysical techniques such as satellite remote sensing, drone and GPS surveying, and ground penetrating radar. | Undergraduates Graduates | |
| Communication Studies | College of Arts and Letters | Associate Professor | Expressive Art and Narrative as forms of healing in research with incarcerated students. | Undergraduates Graduates | |
| Communication Studies | College of Arts and Letters | Professor | My research interests and publications include investigating: media effects, advertising, media literacy, parasocial relationships, and adjacent. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Marketing | College of Business and Economics | Assistant Professor | I focus on consumer behavior, I am in particularly interested in digital marketing, and social media marketing. I can also advise students on how to collect data through surveys and experiments. | Undergraduates Graduates | |
| University Library | Assistant Librarian | I research the aesthetics and theoretics at play in the works of contemporary Chicanx picture books. My research areas include: Library & Information Sciences, Children's Literature, Chicana Feminisms, Cultural Studies, and Critical Ethnic Studies. | Undergraduates Graduates | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship | |
| Mathematics | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Professor | I work in pure mathematics and my current research area is in geometric graph theory, but I have a wide range of mathematical interests and have supervised student research projects on many different topics. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | Cal-Bridge, LSAMP, NIH Bridges to the Doctorate, PUMP, STEM-NET, U-RISE |
| Communication Disorders | Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services | Associate Professor | Auditory processing, speech perception, and the cognitive and neural consequences of bilingualism & multilingualism. Comparison between younger and older adults (e.g., aging effect). | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Computer Science | College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology | Associate Professor | My research focuses on artificial intelligence (AI), data science, machine learning, and deep learning. We research on AI models for various applications such as climate, wildfire, air quality, urban sustainability, and health. | Undergraduates Graduates | |
| Biological Sciences | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Professor | My lab studies wetland ecology along our coast, including predator-prey relationships and adaptation to stress. We also study global biodiversity in photosynthetic sea slugs, using DNA sequences to infer evolutionary relationships, and naming new species. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | CREST, LSAMP, NIH Bridges to the Doctorate, U-RISE |
| Chemistry and Biochemistry | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Assistant Professor | Our research revolves around the characterization of complex chemical mixtures (e.g., fuels made from plastic waste, compounds adsorbed on micorplastics) via state-of-the-art techniques, including two-dimensional gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. | Undergraduates Graduates | NIH Bridges to the Doctorate, U-RISE |
| School of Kinesiology | Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services | Associate Professor | The Cultural Sport and Exercise Psychology research lab aims to examine (moving) bodies and the field of kinesiology through psychological and sociocultural perspectives and promote equity and social justice in/via kinesiology and related fields. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| English | College of Arts and Letters | Associate Professor | Integrating holocaust, genocide, and human rights education into K-12 curricula using children's & YA literature and film. | Undergraduates Graduates | |
| Management | College of Business and Economics | Assistant Professor | My research encompasses safety net healthcare facilities, health equity and healthcare organizations, and health systems research. | Undergraduate Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Criminal Justice and Criminalistics | Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services | Assistant Professor | Crime, criminal behavior, aggression, violence, psychopathy, psychopath, suicide, self harm, self injury, risk assessment, biology, heart rate, sweat rate, physiology, brain, psychology, mental health, perceptions, opinion, attitude, social, family, peers, friends, neighborhood, culture, neuroscience, survey, vignette, experiment/experimental, offender, justice involvement, criminal justice, criminology. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | SPROUT |
| Information Systems | College of Business and Economics | Associate Professor | Data science, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), healthcare applications. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Child and Family Studies | Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services | Professor | I conduct research on different aspects of Spanish/English bilingual development, including speech sound perception and production, language mixing, lexical and grammatical acquisition. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, SPROUT |
| Biological Sciences | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Associate Professor | My lab studies the molecular details of the circadian clock using cyanobacteria as a model system. We use a variety of techniques including microbiology, cell biology, and molecular biology. | Undergraduates Graduates | LSAMP, U-RISE |
| Patricia A. Chin School of Nursing | Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services | Assistant Professor | As a tenured faculty member, I have experience in quantitative and qualitative healthcare research and significant epidemiological research expertise with strong and advanced knowledge of biostatistics. I have been working with graduate (masters) students. Graduate | Graduates | |
| Theatre and Dance | College of Arts and Letters | Professor | Theatre/live performance/musical theatre that challenges and questions the status quo, particularly in regards to inequities regarding gender and race. | Graduates | |
| Chemistry and Biochemistry | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Professor | We are interested in understanding the roles of proteins and other biomolecules in protecting living organisms to survive in harsh winter at the chemistry-biology interface and applying efficient bio-antifreezes for industrial uses. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | LSAMP, NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate, NIH Bridges to the Doctorate, U-RISE |
| Chemistry and Biochemistry | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Associate Professor | My research group utilizes advanced imaging and sensing tools to conduct single-entity analysis, targeting fundamental questions in Parkinson's disease, nanoscale electrochemistry, and plastic pollution. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | CREST, LSAMP, NIH Bridges to the Doctorate, NSF REU, U-RISE |
| Management | College of Business and Economics | Assistant Professor | Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial passion, corporate entrepreneurship, and organizational innovation | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Special Education and Counseling | College of Education | Assistant Professor | Positive psychology, character strengths, addiction recovery, substance abuse recovery, substance use disorder recovery, implicit disability biases, disability stigma. | Undergraduates Graduates | |
| Management | College of Business and Economics | Assistant Professor | Mergers & Acquisitions, investment banking | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | |
| Psychology | College of Natural and Social Sciences | Assistant Professor | The PROSPER Lab examines psychological and biological pathways that connect the experience of stressful and traumatic events to poor mental and physical health. | Undergraduates Graduates Postbaccalaureates | NIH Bridges to the Doctorate, U-RISE |