Hiba Baroud
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringExpert in risk, reliability and resilience of critical infrastructure against climate change and natural disasters, particularly flooding.
Climate ChangeFlood MitigationNatural DisastersResilience modelingInterdependent Systems Data AnalyticsCritical Infrastructure ModelingRisk AnalysisRisk-informed decision analysisStatistical Modelingclimate and climate changeDisaster RecoveryFlooding
Vanessa Beasley
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Dean of Residential Faculty and Associate Professor of Communication StudiesExpert in presidential rhetoric, U.S. political communication and rhetorical criticism and theory.
Rhetorical Criticism and TheoryPolitical RhetoricPresidential RhetoricPolitical Communication
Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin
Mike Curb Professor of Health PolicyExpert in health policy, particularly insurance and health care financing issues.
State and Local Health PolicyPayment ReformMedicareHealth EconomicsHealth Care SpendingMedicaidInsurance
Jeffrey Bennett
Associate Professor of Communication StudiesMedical humanities expert who specializes in health, citizenship, LGBT/queer studies, cultural studies and rhetorical theory and criticism.
Queer HealthcareQueer vernacularLGBTQ HealthHIV PreventionHIV & AIDSPrEPDiabetesRhetoric and HIVRhetoric and DiseaseRhetoric of Diabetes ManagementRhetoricMedical Humanities
Brett Benson
Associate Professor of Political ScienceExpert in Chinese and East Asian politics and international relations, as well as economic and military alliances.
Religious Bias among U.S. VotersEast Asian RelationsInternational RelationsChinese PoliticsMilitary Alliances
Sophie Bjork-James
Assistant Professor of the Practice in AnthropologyExpert on the U.S.-based religious right and the white nationalist movement, particularly online communities.
Conservative ChristianityReligionWhite NationalismReproductive PoliticsRace and RacismEvangelicalismHate CrimesFeminism & Gender StudiesRacism
Michael Burcham
Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Faculty Director of the Center for EntrepreneurshipExpert in the business of healthcare and entrepreneurial development.
Business EconomicsStartup IncubatorsHealthcare business strategyEntrepreneurshipVenture Capital
Erin Calipari
Assistant Professor of PharmacologyExpert in the neuroscience of mental illness and addiction, including gender differences.
maladaptive processesneural signalsPharmacologyassociative learningAddictive BehaviorBrainNeuroscienceAddictionOpiodsMedicine and DrugsBrain BehaviorAddiction and RecoveryDopamineself-administered drugsadaptive processes
Janey Camp
Research Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringExpert on climate change and interactions of nature and infrastructure.
Global WarmingLand useGISPrecipitationStemFlooding flood managementSTEM education in high schoolsInfrastructure managementHydrologic and hydrodynamic modelingClimate change and the impact on floodingGIS for demographic studiesRisk ManagementClimate change adaptationHuman Behaviorfloodscoastal floodingEnvironmentInfrastructureSTEM curriculumClimate Change
Ken Catania
Stevenson Professor of Biological SciencesExpert on sensory systems' impact on animal behavior, particularly naked mole rats, star-nosed moles, cockroaches and eels.
spatial mapsrodentsBiological Sciencesneural processingmammalsNaturestar-nose molenaked mole ratsAnimal BehaviorEelsCockroachesMolesAnimal sensory systemsstar-nosed moleelectric eelsEvolutionvisual cortexevolution of mammalsForagingsensory cortex