Name: Dr. Lomeli C. Shull   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Biology   Describe your research in about 200 words. I am a developmental biologist interested in understanding how our complicated facial structures—all the cartilage, bone, and neurons—form. Neural crest cells are a stem-cell like population of cells that give rise to a variety of […] Read More

Name:Dr. Chi Wang Title:Assistant Professor Department:Mechanical Engineering Describe your research in about 200 words.My research focuses on advancing the fundamental understanding of heat transfer across interfaces in microscale during phase change process with advanced experimental and diagnostic technologies to facilitate the development of more efficient energy, heat transfer and thermal management systems. My current research interests include phase […] Read More

Name: Dr. Allyson McGaughey   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering   Describe your research in about 200 words. To mitigate and adapt to climate change, freshwater scarcity, and increasing environmental degradation, we must achieve a circular water economy and, at the same time, confront new (and […] Read More

Name: Dr. Georgios Koutsakis   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Mechanical Engineering   Describe your research in about 200 words. I  obtained my PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2022, after completing my diploma at the University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece in 2016. I developed techniques to maximize in-cylinder heat insulation while ensuring […] Read More

Name: Dr. Chanee Choi   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Film and Digital Arts   Describe your research in about 200 words. I am a transdisciplinary artist and educator. I’ve developed a ritualistic craft-based art practice that transcends the conservative and isolationist roots of traditional East Asian craftwork by focusing on a celebration of feminist […] Read More

Name: Dr. Marisa Repasch   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Earth and Planetary Sciences   Describe your research in about 200 words. My research focuses on understanding the role of Earth surface processes, such as erosion, sediment transport, and weathering, in the global carbon cycle. Climate change and human-driven land disturbance can accelerate erosion, destabilizing […] Read More

Name:Dr. Renée F. Brown Title:Research Assistant Professor Department:Biology  Describe your research in about 200 words.I am an ecosystem ecologist and ecoinformatician with a passion for blending technology with field-based research to explore how dryland ecosystems respond to environmental change. Specifically, I make use of environmental sensor networks and long-term datasets to unravel how changes in climate, along with […] Read More

Name:Kaitlin Bryson Title:Lecturer III Department:Art and Art History Describe your research in about 200 words.I am an ecological/bio artist concerned with environmental and social justice. I primarily work with fungi, plants, microbes, and biodegradable materials to engage more-than-human audiences, while also facilitating human communities through social practice and environmental stewardship. My practice is research-based and most often collaborative, […] Read More

Name:Dr. Ahmed Hasan Title:Lecturer III and Research Professor Department:Mechanical Engineering Describe your research in about 200 words.Experience in the interaction of inorganic contaminants with mineral surfaces, colloidal transport of radioactive and metal contaminants and their applications to remediation, physicochemical characterization of soil and mineral surfaces, development of geochemical codes, and radionuclide migration. Experience includes the backend of nuclear […] Read More

Name:Dr. Kenneth Oravetz Title:Lecturer of Critical Text Analysis Department:Academic Communities, University College Describe your research in about 200 words.My research interests are twofold. I am interested in both literary approaches to experimental graphic novels and in innovative reading and writing pedagogy. My literary research turns to formal experimentations in contemporary independent comics to develop new frameworks for comics […] Read More

Name: Dr. Luotao Lin   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Individual, Family, & Community Education   Describe your research in about 200 words. I have focused my research on nutrition epidemiology including discovering temporal dietary and lifestyle patterns and their relationship with health outcomes like obesity, improving food security among low-resource populations, and providing precise […] Read More