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Joel Anderson

Joel Anderson

Associate Professor, Nursing
Caregiving, gerontology, health equity, digital health resources
Avery Bechthold

Avery Bechthold

Assistant Professor, Nursing
Cardiovascular disease, health decision making, family caregiving, heart failure, health interventions, mobility, palliative care, person-centered care, underresourced populations, values clarification
Monica Black

Monica Black

Distinguished Professor, Humanities and History
Death, dying, ICD, hospice, brain death, mortality
Chris Cox.

Chris Cox

Department Head and Robert M. Condra Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Mathematical modeling of natural and engineered environmental systems, mechanisms of gene regulation, noise (or variability) in gene expression and population dynamics, pollution, fate and transport, mathematical models, gene regulation, stochastic processes
Courtney Cronley

Courtney Cronley

Associate Professor, Social Work
Inclusive infrastructure, built environment, health disparities, housing equity, new mobilities, environmental justice, sustainability, sociotechnical systems, housing equity, housing insecurity, transportation equity, community-based participatory research, homelessness, vulnerable populations, critical theories of race, gender, and intersectionality
Scott Crouter

Scott Crouter

Associate Professor, Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies
Physical activity, wearable devices, exercise physiology, energy expenditure, human behavior, machine learning
Paul Dalhaimer

Paul Dalhaimer

Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Nanomedicine, immune therapies, inflammation, obesity, aging, pharmacology, nanoparticle, drug delivery, pharmacology, immunology, inflammation, liver
Madhu Dhar

Madhu Dhar

Research Professor, Large Animal Clinical Sciences
Animal models of diseases, cell biology, stem cell biology, guidance of stem cell biology by biomimetic biomaterials, applications in veterinary medicine, translation into human medicine, regenerative medicine, mesenchymal stem cell biology, extracellular matrix proteins, carbon nanoparticles, animal models, veterinary medicine, human medicine, translation research
Samantha Ehrlich

Samantha Ehrlich

Associate Professor, Public Health
Pregnancy, postpartum, obesity, physical activity, glucose, hyperglycemia, gestational diabetes, diabetes, lifestyle intervention, behavioral counseling, fetal programming, maternal fetal medicine, obstetrics
Ermine Fidan

Emine Fidan

Assistant Professor, Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science
Environmental informatics, artificial intelligence, water quality, water quantity, flooding, agricultural health, ecological health, natural resource management, water pollution, sustainable agriculture, environmental risk, food-energy-water nexus, machine learning modeling, environmental data science
Nathan Fleshner

Nathan Fleshner

Associate Professor, Music Theory
Music analysis, musical expressions of human health and wellness, mental health, therapeutic processes, trauma studies, medical humanities, narrative medicine, therapy, psychology, psychoanalysis, trauma, medical humanities, narrative, music analysis, cognitive processes, algorithmic processes, public health
Zan Gao

Zan Gao

Professor and Department Head, Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies
Kinesiology, physical education, exercise, elderly, mobile health, exergaming, mindful movement, physical activity, recreation, sport studies, cancer survivors, fitness, e-health, cancer prevention, apps, wearables, community-based physical activity interventions, behavioral change theory, disease prevention

Health and Wellness

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Biomedical Innovation
Behavioral, Social and Mental Health
Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
Computational Health and Medicine
Food, Nutrition, and Exercise
Infectious Disease

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