TOPICS
- CLIMATE CHANGE, AIR QUALITY, GREEN ENERGY, SUSTAINABILITY
- NATURAL DISASTERS
- HEALTH
- PHYSICS
- LGBT, GENDER AND SEXUALITY
- MIDDLE EAST AND MUSLIMS
- IMMIGRATION
- TERRORISM
- INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS/ INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
- MEDIA AND CULTURE
CLIMATE CHANGE, AIR QUALITY, GREEN ENERGY, SUSTAINABILITY
Kawai Tam: Lecturer with security of employment, chemical and environmental engineering. Undergraduate education; mentoring undergraduate research; greenhouse gases, sustainability. ktam@engr.ucr.edu
Jade Sasser: Assistant professor, gender and sexuality studies. Climate change, feminist political ecology, feminist science studies, population, environmental activism, reproductive justice, and global health. Author, “On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate Change.” jades@ucr.edu
Francesca Hopkins: Assistant professor, environmental sciences. Greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, methane. Has been quoted in the N.Y. Times, Washington Post, KPCC (NPR affiliate). fhopkins@ucr.edu
Cesunica (“Sunny”) Ivey: Assistant professor, chemical and environmental engineering. Sources of fine particulate matter, regional air quality modeling for health applications, global atmospheric modeling. cesunica@engr.ucr.edu
Mihri Ozkan: Professor, electrical and computer engineering. Green energy technologies and sustainable systems; industrial scale advanced energy storage devices such as batteries and supercapacitors for zero emission vehicles. mihri@ece.ucr.edu
Elaine Haberer: Associate professor, electrical and computer engineering. New nanoscale materials to address challenges in the area of solar power generation, photocatalysis, and gas sensing. haberer@ece.ucr.edu
Fortino Morales: UCR sustainability officer. He is a UCR alumnus and became UCR’s first R’Garden (community garden) manager. In 2016 he was recognized in the inaugural UC Global Food Initiative 30 Under 30 Awards. fortino.morales@ucr.edu
NATURAL DISASTERS
Abhijit Ghosh: Associate professor, geophysics. Physics of earthquakes; records and analyzes seismograms; techniques to detect, locate, and track earthquakes. aghosh@ucr.edu
Kelley Barsanti: Assistant professor, chemical and environmental engineering. Modelling of atmospheric particulate matter, especially from biomass burning; how smoke forms and spreads from wildfires; air quality. kbarsanti@engr.ucr.edu
Rich Minnich: Professor, earth sciences. Fire ecology of Southern California, Baja California, and temperate Mexico; influence of exotic plant invasions and climate change on wildfires; problems associated with fire suppression; impact of dry weather and drought on wildfires; contribution of air pollution to wildfires; solutions to addressing wildfires; California wildflowers. richard.minnich@ucr.edu
HEALTH
Samar Nahas: Assistant clinical professor, health sciences. Cancers of the female reproductive system, including ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, cervical cancer, vaginal cancer, and vulvar cancer; minimally invasive surgery, or MIS. samar.nahas@medsch.ucr.edu
Takesha J. Cooper: Assistant clinical professor, psychiatry. Child and adolescent psychiatry; pediatric mental health; mood and anxiety disorders; bipolar disorder; cognitive behavioral therapy. takesha.cooper@medsch.ucr.edu
Lama Al-Khoury: Associate clinical professor, neurosciences. Stroke risks and treatment; headaches and their pathology. lama.al-khoury@medsch.ucr.edu
Guillermo Aguilar: Chair and professor, mechanical engineering. The brain and laser-related brain therapy. gaguilar@engr.ucr.edu
Byron Ford: Professor, biomedical sciences. Stroke treatments; therapeutic implications for traumatic brain injury, nerve agent toxicity, and cerebral malaria. byron.ford@medsch.ucr.edu
Meera Nair: Assistant professor, biomedical sciences. Immune mechanisms of underlying lung and intestinal infection and inflammation. meera.nair@medsch.ucr.edu
Mona Eskandari: Assistant professor, mechanical engineering. Modeling lung mechanics to better understand how lungs behave in health and disease. eskandar@ucr.edu
Seema Tiwari-Woodruff: Associate professor, biomedical sciences. Multiple sclerosis, including treatment. seema.tiwari-woodruff@medsch.ucr.edu
Elizabeth Morrison-Banks: Clinical professor of neurology. Multiple sclerosis, including treatment; mistreatment of people with advanced MS or other disabling neurological conditions; telemedicine. elizabeth.morrison-banks@medsch.ucr.edu
Victor Rodgers: Professor, bioengineering. New drug delivery therapies for spinal cord and brain injuries and stroke. vrodgers@engr.ucr.edu
PHYSICS
Gabriela Canalizo: Professor, astrophysics. Astronomical discoveries; black holes; quasars; galaxy collisions; active galaxy nuclei; star formation; stellar populations; galaxy evolution. gabyc@ucr.edu
Bahram Mobasher: Professor, physics and observational astronomy. Dark matter and dark energy; formation and evolution of galaxies; star formation activity; expansion of the universe; search for and discovery of the most distant galaxies; Hubble Space Telescope. mobasher@ucr.edu
Flip Tanedo: Assistant professor, physics. Dark matter, science communication; equity in physics; has appeared on NOVA Wonders and a Facebook Live episode hosted by Space.com. flip.tanedo@ucr.edu
LGBT, GENDER AND SEXUALITY
Jane Ward: Professor, gender and sexuality studies. Feminist, queer, and heterosexuality studies; queer parenting; gay pride festivals; gay marriage campaigns; transgender relationships; social construction of heterosexuality; evolution of HIV/AIDS organizations. jane.ward@ucr.edu
Melissa Wilcox: Professor, religious studies. Intersection of LGBTQ communities and individual, informal, and organized religion; new religious movements and their connections to gender and sexuality; development of religious individualism. melissa.wilcox@ucr.edu
Jennifer Doyle: Professor, English. Paranoia and harassment in the workplace. Curator of “The Tip of Her Tongue,” a feminist performance art series presented by The Broad Museum in Los Angeles. jennifer.doyle@ucr.edu
MIDDLE EAST AND MUSLIMS
Laila Lalami: Professor, creative writing. Perceptions and realities of Muslim life; rise of extremism; changing roles of women in Islam. Columnist for The Nation, and author of American Book Award winner “The Moor’s Account.” laila.lalami@ucr.edu
Muhamad Ali: Associate professor, religious studies. Islamic studies and religious studies; jihad; violence and peace; interfaith dialogue and global education; Muslims’ perceptions of Judaism and Jews; Islamic liberal movements; Southeast Asian history. muhamad.ali@ucr.edu
IMMIGRATION
Cecilia Ayon: Associate professor, public policy. Economic, social, and health effects of discrimination; how hostile policy climates contribute to higher stress levels among immigrant communities, particularly ones living in Arizona. cecilia.ayon@ucr.edu
Brittany Morey: Postdoctoral scholar, public policy. How immigration policies and anti-immigrant sentiments affect health and health inequalities for immigrant groups living in the U.S. brittany.morey@ucr.edu
San Juanita Garcia: Assistant professor, sociology. Race, class and gender; immigration and intersectionality; medical sociology and social determinants of health, particularly as they pertain to Mexican-origin women. juanita.garcia@ucr.edu
Alfonso Gonzales: Associate professor, ethnic studies. Latino and Latin American politics; migration control; human rights; migrant social movements and the politics of race in the United States, Mexico, and Central America. alfonso.gonzales@ucr.edu
Francisco Pedraza: Assistant professor, public policy and political science. Political attitude formation and political behavior among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States; relationships between immigration policy and health policy. fpedraza@ucr.edu
Adrián Félix: Assistant professor, ethnic studies. Politics of migration; diaspora; transnationalism; race and citizenship, especially as they pertain to Mexican migrants. adrian.felix@ucr.edu
TERRORISM
Jennifer Merolla: Professor, political science. How terrorist threats impact public opinion and female candidates; how the political environment shapes individual attitudes and behavior; immigration and foreign policy attitudes. jennifer.merolla@ucr.edu
Miguel Carreras: Assistant professor, political science. How terrorism and threats to national security affect public perception and approval ratings of female presidents, and how the political environment shapes attitudes and political behavior. miguel.carreras@ucr.edu
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS/ INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Kelechi Kalu: Vice provost, International Affairs; professor, political science. International student enrollment; travel bans; international politics; Africa and U.S.-Africa relations. vpia@ucr.edu
Magid Shirzadegan: Director, international students and scholars. Advising, teaching, and working with international students; coordinating orientations and handling financial aid, tax and immigration matters for international students. magid.shirzadegan@ucr.edu
MEDIA AND CULTURE
Richard T. Rodríguez: Associate professor, media and cultural studies, English. Latina/o literary and cultural studies; film and visual culture; queer studies. richard.rodriguez@ucr.edu
Derek Burrill: Associate professor, media and cultural studies. Digital games, media and gender; published 2008 book "Die Tryin’: Videogames, Masculinity, Culture.” derek.burrill@ucr.edu
Liz Przybylski: Assistant professor, music. Indigenous hip hop practices in Canada and the United States; ethnomusicology; musicology; gender studies; indigenous studies. liz.przybylski@ucr.edu
John Jennings: Professor, media and cultural studies. Identity politics and popular media, particularly black representation; Afrofuturism; hip-hop culture; science fiction; superheroes; comic books; graphic novels. johnj@ucr.edu
Nalo Hopkinson: Professor, creative writing. Science fiction; speculative fiction; fantasy; magical realism; Afrofuturism, black diasporic religions; Caribbean history and folklore; Afro-Caribbean culture; intersectional feminism. naloh@ucr.edu
Imani Kai Johnson: Assistant professor, dance. African diaspora, global popular culture; hip hop; ritual practice of cyphering — collaborative and competitive dance circles. imani.johnson@ucr.edu
Setsu Shigematsu: Professor, media and cultural studies. Asian/ Japanese studies and culture; created the "Guardian Princesses" book series. setsu.shigematsu@ucr.edu
Stuart "Stu" Krieger: Professor, theatre, film, and digital production. Screenwriting; has co-written the Emmy award winning mini-series A Year in the Life and wrote the animated classic “The Land Before Time.” skrieger@ucr.edu
Patricia Cardoso: Theatre, film, and digital production. Screenwriting; film directing and producing. Film director, writer, and producer best known for directing “Real Women Have Curves” (2002), member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. patricia.cardoso@ucr.edu
