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Biology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nathan Ahlgren<\/a>, professor of biology (microbial ecologist); expertise in viruses, created COVID-19 data plots for Worcester, Mass.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Hibbett <\/a>\u2014 Evolutionary biology\/ecology of mushroom-forming fungi and relatives; uses of phylogenetic trees for studying the evolution of morphological and ecological characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate Change\/Land Use\/Energy Technologies\/GIS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hamed Alemohammad<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Remote Sensing, Geospatial AI, Land Cover Land Use Modeling; Director of\u00a0Clark CGA<\/a>. Recent coverage: Tracking the Chinese Balloon From Space (NY Times<\/a>), Harnessing Geospatial AI (ClarkU News<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karen Frey<\/a> \u2013 Permafrost thaw on river biogeochemistry; impacts of sea ice variability; co-PI of The Polaris Project<\/a>, and NASA ICESCAPE mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William S. Lynn<\/a> \u2014 Research scientist focusing on ethics and public policy, with an emphasis on environmental discourse, human-animal relations, and participatory governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Economics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

John C. Brown<\/a>, professor of economics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Holly Dolan,<\/a> Professor of Practice, Adam Institute for Urban Education and School Practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emerging Adulthood   <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jeffrey Arnett<\/a>, developer of the theory of emerging adulthood (on development from age 18\u201329) \u2014 Media uses in adolescence; responses to cigarette advertising. Author: \u201cGetting to 30: A Parent\u2019s Guide to the Twentysomething Years\u201d (Workman Publishing 2014); \u201cWhen Will My Grown-Up Kid Grow Up?\u201d (May 2013). Former director, Clark University Poll of Emerging Adults<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Film, movies (future of)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Soren Sorensen<\/a>, lecturer in screen studies in the Visual and Performing Arts Department<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Generations (Emerging Adults, Established Adults, Reimagining Adulthood)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett<\/a>, senior research scholar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Holocaust and Genocide<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Thomas K\u00fchne<\/a> \u2014 Holocaust history; the relation of war, genocide, and society with long-term traditions of political culture of Central Europe; the problem of locating the Holocaust and Nazi Germany in the social and cultural history of the 20th century. Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Author of \u201cBelonging and Genocide: Hitler\u2019s Community 1918-1945<\/a>\u201d (Yale University Press)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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International security, power politics, European Union\/Brexit, North Korea<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Michael Butler<\/a>, associate professor. Expertise in international security (not only traditional \u2018guns and bombs\u2019 and power politics), negotiation and mediation (conflict management and resolution in general), humanitarian crisis, terrorism, climate change, foreign policy (U.S. and European) and European affairs, North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Latin American politics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Paul Posner<\/a>, associate professor and director of Latin American and Latinx Studies. Expertise in labor politics, the politics of social welfare resource distribution, the New Left and populism in Latin America, with specific focus on Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Current research focuses on democratization and political participation in Latin America. He teaches courses on Latin-American politics, U.S.-Latin American relations, comparative environmental politics, and democratic theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Men\u2019s mental health, men\u2019s help-seeking<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Michael Addis<\/a>, professor of psychology, director of the Men\u2019s Well-Being Research Group<\/a>. Author of \u201cInvisible Men: Men\u2019s Inner Lives and the Consequences of Silence<\/a>.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mental health (teens, young African-American men), telehealth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nadia Ward, M.Ed, Ph.D<\/a>., director of the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parenting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Abbie Goldberg <\/a>\u2013 Gay\/lesbian parenting; adoption; the transition to parenthood; work-family issues; family diversity; gender. Author: \u201cLesbian and gay parents and their children: Research on the family life cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendy Grolnick<\/a>, professor of psychology, parenting during a pandemic, motivational development in children and adolescents. Author, \u201cPressured Parents, Stressed-out Kids: Dealing With Competition While Raising a Successful Child\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Physics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Charles Agosta<\/a> \u2014 low-temperature experimentalist working in lower-dimensional materials in very high magnetic fields. Agosta and his students developed a pulsed magnetic field lab where experiments are performed in the highest magnetic fields available at any U.S. university. Expert on electric vehicles. Agosta, as CEO of MachFlow Energy Inc., received a grant of $1 million from the Department of Energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arshad Kudrolli<\/a> \u2014 A broad range of non-equilibrium phenomena, granular materials, and biological physics. Active Matter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Psychology (developmental)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nancy Budwig<\/a>, professor, Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology. Expertise in developmental and learning sciences, liberal education, engaged learning in the age of online delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Relationships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

James C\u00f3rdova<\/a> \u2014 Director, Center for Couples and Family Research. Author: \u201cThe Marriage Checkup: A Scientific Program for Sustaining and Strengthening Marital Health<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Marriage Checkup Practitioner\u2019s Guide: Promoting Lifelong Relationship Health<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deborah Merrill<\/a> \u2013 research focuses on relationships between parents and adult children in later life as well as marriage, expertise on mother-in-law\/daughter-in-law relations, caregiving. Author: \u201cWhen Your Children Marry: How Marriage Changes Relationships with Adult Children<\/a>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Syria, Middle East<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ora Szekely<\/a> \u2013 Non-state military actors, the politics of the Middle East, mass violence and civilian protection, new media, propaganda, and political mobilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Theatre<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Gino DiIorio<\/a>, professor of theatre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wildfires, Drought<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dominik Kulakowski<\/a> \u2014 Bark beetle outbreaks, disturbance ecology, landscape change, mountain forest ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Rogan<\/a> \u2014 Geographer specializing in landscape ecology, fire ecology, optical remote sensing and GIScience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Williams <\/a>\u2014 Drought, terrestrial ecosystem ecology, ecosystem-climate interactions, global environmental change; energy-water-carbon exchanges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n