Biology

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Physiology

  • Trade offs between form and function in fishes — Jeff Walker

Ecology and Evolution

Chemistry

  • Green chemistry, cellulosic ethanol, biodegradable polymers — Meg Hausman
  • Synthesis and characterization of luminescent organometallic materials for applications in biotechnology, sensor design, and electrooptical devices, advances in Chemical Education — Henry Tracy
  • Bioremediation of chromate, biochemistry of the mycobacterial cell wall — Peter Woodruff

Computer Science

  • Information Retrieval and Search Systems, Natural Language Processing and Text Mining, Multimodal Data Analytics — Behrooz Mansouri
  • Computer vision with emphasis on depth estimation, medical image analysis, and detection of digital forgeries — Xin Zhang
  • Machine learning and deep learning for materials science and new material discovery, predictive modeling of hospitality-related challenges, and analysis of LLM-generated code and text — Yuqi Song
  • Mixed-precision algorithms, next-generation arithmetic, scientific computing, subsurface flow simulation — James Quinlan

Engineering

  • Digital signal processing, digital image processing and computer vision, scientific visualization, software technologies, and engineering education — Mariusz Jankowski
  • Robotics and Intelligent Systems; and Energy and Power Systems — Carlos Luck
  • Thermodynamics, alternative fuel processing, heterogeneous catalysis, combustion systems analysis, fuel spray analysis — Scott Eaton
  • Vibration Analysis and Control of Mechanical Systems, Application of Shape Memory Alloys as Actuators, Nonlinear Rigid Body Dynamics (with applications in ships and helicopter blades), Statics and Rotational Dynamics of Composite Beams, Limit State Analysis and Metal Forming — Mehrdaad Ghorashi
  • Data analytics and machine learning for manufacturing process optimization and materials design, AI-guided autonomous experimentation and self-driving laboratories, Digital twin modeling for manufacturing process development — Amir Kordijazi

Environmental Science and Policy

  • Rural resilience, local level sustainability, environmental planning, interdisciplinary and engaged research – Vanessa Levesque
  • Environmental planning, cultural resources management, environmental education — Robert Sanford
  • Pheromone biology of the forest pest known as the Pine False Webworm, Acantholyda erythrocephala; water balance and parasitism in pupal stages of the introduced pine sawfly, Diprion similis; assessing heavy metal uptake in aquatic insects as a mechanism for lateral transport of pollutants in natural systems — Joseph Staples
  • Systems thinking, freshwater-marine linkages and diadromous fish species, river herring (alewife and blueback herring), saltmarsh restoration and impacts on marsh-marine linkages, freshwater crayfish in Maine, Limnology, stable isotopes — Karen Wilson

Exercise, Health, and Sports Sciences

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Linguistics

  • Linguistic and cognitive approaches to second language acquisition/bilingualism; Linguistic methodology — Jeanne Heil
  • Comparative syntax with signed and spoken languages; Syntactic structure of ASL, Syntactic aspects of emergent sign systems — Sandra Wood
  • Language reclamation; crosslinguistic approaches to morphosyntax and morphophonology — Conor Quinn

Mathematics & Statistics

  • Fractional and nonlocal partial differential equations, inverse problems, mathematical modeling, and scientific machine learning — Hayman Thabet
  • Theoretical and applied statistics. Developing statistical inference techniques for estimating population parameters from incomplete data assuming that the distribution of an underlying population is normal or lognormal — Abou Aboueissa
  • Differential geometry and topology — James Dibble
  • Early College Mathematics and Statistics — Laurie Woodman

Physics

  • Video microscopy of Brownian motion, granular physics, image recognition, computational physics — Paul Nakroshis
  • Particle physics, neutrinos, liquid argon time projection chambers — Brandon Eberly
  • Composition of asteroids and comets — Julie Ziffer

Psychology

  • The study of social-cognitive mechanisms for child and adult metacognitive development as it relates to self-regulation, critical thinking and ethical decision-making — R. Bruce Thompson
  • Cardiovascular reactivity to and recovery from lab induced stress, stress reduction interventions to improve quality of life among cancer patients and combat veterans — Elizabeth Vella
  • Intergroup relations, stereotyping and prejudice, inclusive teaching practices — Mackenzie McDonald
  • The development of occupational aspirations, self-regulation and future thought, and parental leave — Elizabeth Parks-Stamm
  • Conducts research in social and personality psychology with a focus on social thinking, interpersonal and intergroup interactions, and attitudes and bias — Brandon Stewart