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Business, Economics, Finance and Real Estate

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Seth Ketron

Associate Professor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Retail industry
  • Consumer behavior and psychology
  • Holiday shopping
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Jukka Kukkonen

Instructor

Areas of expertise include:

  • EV market dynamics
  • Business concept innovation
  • Training and organizational development
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Mike Porter

Senior Clinical Professor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Angel investors
  • B2B marketing
  • Communications
  • Reputation management
  • Retail industry
  • Customer and patient experience
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Laura Russ

Executive Director of the Shenehon Center for Real Estate

Areas of expertise include:

  • Shenehon Center for Real Estate
  • Housing market
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Tyler Schipper

Associate Professor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Macroeconomics
  • Growth and development
  • Forecasting
  • Informality in developing countries

Science, Environment and Technology

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John Abraham

Professor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Medical devices
  • Thermal sciences
  • Biological heating and fluid flow
  • Climate change
  • Energy generation in the developing world
  • Engineering design
  • Fundamental heat transfer and fluid flow processes
  • Clean water
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Thomas Feeney

Associate Professor of Philosophy & Director, M.A. in Artificial Intelligence Leadership Program

Areas of expertise include:

  • Early modern philosophy
  • Metaphysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
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Mahmoud Kabalan

Associate Professor & Director of Center for Microgrid Research

Areas of expertise include:

  • Microgrids
  • Power Systems
  • Distributed Energy Resources
  • Power Electronics
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Seth Ketron

Associate Professor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Virtual Reality
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Jukka Kukkonen

Instructor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Energy industry transformation
  • Electrification
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Ali Ling

Assistant Professor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Water treatment
  • Wastewater treatment
  • PFAS
  • Microbial ecology
  • Advanced oxidation
  • Engineered circularity
  • PFAS treatment and source reduction
  • Microbial ecology & of engineered systems
  • Techno-economic analyses of developing technologies
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Manjeet Rege

Professor and Chair of the Department of Software Engineering and Data Science, Director of the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence

Areas of expertise include:

  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Generative AI and Large Language Models
  • Agentic AI and AI Automation
  • AI Ethics and Responsible AI
  • Applied Data Science
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Jena Zangs

Chief Data and Analytics Office

Areas of expertise include:

  • Artificial Intelligence

Law, Criminal Justice and Human Rights

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Rachel Moran

Professor and Robins Kaplan Director of Clinical Education

Areas of expertise include:

  • State Court
  • Defense
  • Criminal and Juvenile Defense Clinic (practical training representing people accused of crimes)
  • Sentencing
  • Policing
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Mark Osler

Professor and Robert and Marion Short Distinguished Chair in Law

Areas of expertise include:

  • Criminal law and procedure
  • Federal court 
  • Prosecution
  • Criminal sentencing
  • Clemency - Request for mercy for long-term prison sentences
  • Federal commutations
  • Prisoner rights
  • Death penalty
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Virgil Wiebe

Professor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Human rights law
  • Immigration law
  • International law
  • Law of armed conflict
  • Legal education

Health and Well-Being

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John Abraham

Professor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Burn injuries
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Melanie Ferris

Director of Health Equity Program Development

Areas of expertise include:

  • Public health
  • Mental health
  • Health care to improve community health and wellbeing
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Bryana French

Department Chair

Areas of expertise include:

  • Sexual coercion and associated psychosocial outcomes among racially diverse young men and women
  • Healing from racial and sexual trauma
  • Multicultural & liberation psychology
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Annette Hines

Executive Director of the School of Nursing

Areas of expertise include:

  • Rural Health
  • Health promotion in families with a child with chronic illness
  • Asthma as a health disparity
  • Teaching strategies in classroom and clinical settings
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Audra Nuru

Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Professor of Communication Studies, and Family Studies Director of Family Studies

Areas of expertise include:

  • Intercultural communication
  • Interpersonal and family communication
  • Family studies
  • Relationships
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Roxanne Prichard

Professor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Sleep and mental health
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Lindsay Schipper

Areas of expertise include:

  • General health topics
  • Home care
  • Hospice
  • Pediatric nursing
  • Implicit bias mitigation

History, Society, Politics and Culture

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Shaherzad Ahmadi

Associate Professor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Modern histories of Iran and Iraq
  • Transnational migration
  • Warfare
  • Popular medicine
  • Childhood
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April Eichmeier

Assistant Professor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Public opinion
  • Misinformation
  • Engagement with the political aspects of science and technology
  • Political communications
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Hans Gustafson

Senior Adjunct; Faculty Director of the Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies

Areas of expertise include:

  • Interreligious studies
  • Study of religion(s)
  • Theology
  • Lived interreligious relations
  • Religious identity
  • Leadership
  • Approaches to religious diversity
  • Methods of dialogue
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Molly McGraw-Healy

Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, School of Education

Areas of expertise include:

  • Education policy and practice
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Buffy Smith

Eugene and Mary Frey Endowed Chair; Dean of Dougherty Family College

Areas of expertise include:

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Opportunity Gap
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Chelda Smith Kondo

Associate Professor of Education

Areas of expertise include:

  • Intersectional justice
  • Qualitative research
  • Critical and asset-based pedagogy
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Yohuru Williams

Distinguished University Chair; Professor; Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative

Areas of expertise include:

  • History
  • Race and Social Justice

Marketing, Communications and Media

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April Eichmeier

Assistant Professor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Misinformation
  • Public opinion
  • Survey Research
  • Experimental research
  • Political communication
  • Science communication
  • Social media marketing
  • Strategic communication
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Audra Nuru

Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Professor of Communication Studies, and Family Studies Director of Family Studies

Areas of expertise include:

  • Intercultural communication
  • Interpersonal and family communication
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Mike Porter

Senior Clinical Professor

Areas of expertise include:

  • Reputation management
  • Health care communication
  • Business communication
  • Crisis communication