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2020 New Faculty

Alex Nading

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Name and title: Alex Nading, Associate Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Medical anthropology, environmental studies, science and technology studies, labor Current research project: 

2020 New Faculty

Nicholas Mulder

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Name and title: Nicholas Mulder, Assistant Professor, History  Academic focus: European and international history from 1870 to the present, with a particular focus on the interwar period (1914-1945) and on questions of political economy. I am also interested in international organizations, international law and the history of war. 

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Jason Sion Mokhtarian

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Name and title: Jason Sion Mokhtarian, Associate Professor and Herbert and Stephanie Neuman Chair in Hebrew and Jewish Literature, Near Eastern Studies Academic focus: Rabbinic Judaism, Iranian studies, Talmud in its Sasanian context, Jews of Persia Current research project: 

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Chaoming Jian

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 Name and title: Chaoming Jian, Assistant Professor, Physics Academic focus: Theoretical condensed matter physics Current research project: 

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Todd Hyster

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Name and title: Todd Hyster, Associate Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology Academic focus:  Biocatalysis and organic synthesis Current research project:

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Jerel Ezell

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Name and title: Jerel Ezell, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center Academic focus: Health disparities and social inequalities Current research project: 

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Alexandra Domike Blackman

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Name and title: Alexandra Domike Blackman, Assistant Professor, Government Academic focus: Middle Eastern politics, history, religion, gender Current research project: 

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Amiel Bize

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Name and title: Amiel Bize, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Economic anthropology (value, capitalist margins, post-agrarian rural life, risk, gleaning) Current research project: 

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Michele Belot

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Name and title: Michele Belot, Professor, Economics  Academic focus: Labor economics, health economics, behavioral economics Current research project:  Randomized controlled trial testing interventions to support job seekers in their search  Previous positions: 

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Leslie S. Babonis

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Name and title: Leslie S. Babonis, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Academic focus: Evolutionary development, the origin of novelty, invertebrate biodiversity Current research project: 

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Helena Aparicio

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Name and title: Helena Aparicio, Assistant Professor, Linguistics Academic focus: I use a combination of experimental and computational methods to study how humans process and interpret language. Current research project: 

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Chloe Ahmann

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Name and title: Chloe Ahmann, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Environmental anthropology, urban history, United States Current research project: 

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Mikail E. Abbasov

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Name and title: Mikail E. Abbasov, Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology Academic focus: Chemical biology, chemical proteomics, activity-based protein profiling, drug discovery, cancer, neurodegeneration, immunology Current research project:

Government

Webinar to examine systemic racism, health equity

What can, and should, faculty members, staff, students and the community be doing in response to institutional racism and its role in shaping health equity?

Astronomy

Mars Perseverance to deliver ‘first zoom cameras’ to another world

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NASA is planning to launch its latest rover destined for Mars on July 30, with an anticipated arrival date on the red planet in February 2021. The rover, named Perseverance, will look for evidence of ancient life and collect soil and rock samples at a part of Mars just north of its equator known as Jezero Crater — the site of an ancient river.