Faculty Listing

  • School of Engineering

    • Bales, Roger C. (Climate change and water resources; water from the Sierra Nevada; causes of climate change)
    • Campbell, Elliott (Sustainability, biofuels, land use, crop index insurance)
    • Cerpa, Alberto (Sensor networks, environmental sensing, energy-smart infrastructure, wireless communications)
    • Conklin, Martha H. (Water quality; K-12 environmental science education)
    • Kallmann, Marcelo (Artificial intelligence and robotics; computer animation)
    • McCloskey, Kara E. (Stem cell tissue engineering; heart tissue; blood vessel tissue)
    • Sun, Jian-Qiao (Devices for physical therapy; Acoustics - vibration control; adaptive controls)
    • Viney, Christopher (Materials engineering based on natural phenomena; K-12 science & technology curriculum enhancement)
    • Westerling, Anthony (Effect of climate change on wildfires)

  • School of Natural Sciences

    • Ardell, David (Genomics, computational biology, evolution; gene expression related to growth, disease, stress and aging)
    • Beman, J Michael (ocean pollution and acidification, marine microbiology and microbial ecology, global biogeochemical cycles)
    • Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw (soil chemistry; critical zone; climate change; land use; land degradation; environmental impacts of landmines)
    • Bhat, Harish S. (High-speed analog electronics; gas dynamics and shock waves; scientific computing; numerical analysis)
    • Blanchette, François (Mathematical approaches to environmental problems involving fluids and sediments)
    • Dawson, Michael N (Marine biodiversity; evolution; ecological genetics; climate change)
    • Duffy, Philip B. (Climate modeling, regional climate change, societal impacts of climate change)
    • Forman, Henry Jay (Antioxidants; lung health; asthma; environmental health; air quality; effects of smoking)
    • Garcia-Ojeda, Marcos (Bone marrow stem cells; HIV/AIDS research)
    • Ghosh, Sayantani (Quantum physics; spintronics; quantum computing, qubits, quantum dots)
    • Gopinathan, Ajay (Physics applied to cellular biology)
    • Hart, Stephen C. (Ecology; soils; biogeochemistry; forestry; climate change)
    • Hirst, Linda S. (Soft matter physics, biophysics, LCD)
    • Ilan, Boaz (Ultra-precise time measurement; optical clocks)
    • Kim, Arnold (Math and biology; biomedical sciences; K-12 and college math education)
    • Kueppers, Lara (Climate change and ecology; carbon cycling and climate change; regional climate models)
    • Medina, Mónica (Effect of climate change on marine species; genomics of marine invertebrates)
    • Mitchell, Kevin (physics, chaos, fractals; K-12 math and science education)
    • ODay, Peggy (Water quality; water pollution; heavy metals; pesticides)
    • Ojcius, David (Immunology; infections disease; miscarriage)
    • Pallavicini, Maria (Stem cell research; cancer and leukemia; tissue transplants)
    • Raymond, Jason (origin and evolution of life; microbiology; evolutionary biology and genomics; ecology and biogeochemistry of hot springs)
    • Sprague, Michael (Mathematical models and numerical methods for time-dependent problems)
    • Tian, Lin (quantum physics, quantum computing, nanomechanical systems, nano-scale condensed matter systems)
    • Tokman, Mayya (Applied Math; numerical methods; plasma modeling; computational biology; K-12 math and science education)
    • Traina, Sam (Soils, sediments and water; Sierra Nevada Research Institute)
    • Van Breugel, Willem (Astronomy - astrobiology, black holes; Physics - high energy physics)

  • School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

    • Adan-Lifante, Virginia (Language learning; Spanish and Latin American language, literature and culture)
    • Amussen, Susan D. (History: class, gender, race, slavery)
    • Beattie, Irenee (Racial, ethnic and gender inequality in education; law and social policy; adolescent transitions; substance use; promiscuity)
    • Camfield, Gregg (Literature, humor, Mark Twain; Neuroscience and the arts)
    • DeLugan, Robin Maria (Community, identity, migration, nationalism, transnationalism; Museums, tourism; Mexico, El Salvador)
    • Dunham, Yarrow (prejudice, stereotyping, social groups and children, developmental psychology)
    • Fellezs, Kevin (Jazz; music and popular culture)
    • Hansford, Thomas G. (United States judicial system)
    • Heit, Evan (Categorization, reasoning and memory)
    • Martin Rodriguez, Manuel (Hispanic culture in film, literature, and television)
    • Matlock, Teenie (language and technology, human-computer interaction, spatial cognition)
    • Monroe, Nathan (Politics; United States Congress; partisanship or partisan politics; term limits, elections)
    • Mostern, Ruth (Digital maps; Chinese history; political geography)
    • Nicholson, Stephen P. (Elections, voting, public opinion, political psychology, ballot measures/ballot initiatives)
    • Quinn, Sholeh (Middle East; Persia; Iran)
    • Ricci, Cristián H. (Literature, Spanish literature, North African and Arabic literature)
    • Shadish, William R. (Effectiveness of psychotherapy)
    • Song, Anna V. (adolescent and young adult decision-making as it pertains to risk behaviors)
    • Van Dyke, Nella (Hate crimes; social movements; collective action; protests)
    • Vanderschraaf, Peter (Morality; justice; convention; politics and morality; politics and justice; elections)
    • Wallander, Jan (Childhood development; behavioral psychology for children and adolescents; special needs children; disabilities)
    • Weffer, Simón (Urban inequality, collective action, social movements, racial and ethnic issues, immigration)
    • Whalley, Alexander (Economics: impact of education on income)
    • Winder, Katie L. (Gender equity, work-life balance, motherhood and career, flexible scheduling)