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Laura Mauldin, Ph.D.

ProfessorUniversity of Connecticut

Laura Mauldin is a sociologist focused on health and illness; caregiving; and disability, Deaf, and science and technology studies.

SociologyHuman Development and Family SciencesWomen’s Gender and Sexuality StudiesDisability StudiesDeaf Studies
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Bahram Javidi, Ph.D.

Board of Trustees Distinguished ProfessorUniversity of Connecticut

A professor of electrical and computer engineering, Javidi also leads the Multidimensional Optical Sensing and Imaging Systems (MOSIS) Lab.

Optics and PhotonicsBiomedical optics/photonics for imagingNanotechnology in optical sensing, imaging, visualization, and display3D Imaging
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Matthew Hughey, Ph.D.

Professor of SociologyUniversity of Connecticut

A scholar of racism and racial inequality in identity formation, organizations, media, politics, science, religion, and public advocacy.

ReligionFraternities and SororitiesOrganizationsWhitenessMedia
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Linda S. Sprague Martinez, Ph.D.

Director, UConn Health Disparities InstituteUniversity of Connecticut

Linda Sprague Martinez, Ph.D. has expertise in health equity and the social determinants of health.

Participatory ResearchHealth DisparitiesHealth EquityCommunity HealthSocial Determinants of Health
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Ken Catania

Stevenson Professor of Biological SciencesVanderbilt University

Expert on sensory systems' impact on animal behavior, particularly naked mole rats, star-nosed moles, cockroaches and eels.

spatial mapsrodentsBiological Sciencesneural processingmammals
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Preston Green, J.D., Ed.D.

John and Maria Neag Professor of Urban EducationUniversity of Connecticut

Professor focused on charter school regulation and industry oversight.

School ChoiceEducational EquityIndustry OversightCharter School RegulationEducational Leadership
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Natalie Munro, Ph.D.

Professor of AnthropologyUniversity of Connecticut

Professor Munro focuses on the origin of feasting and animal domestication, and the transition from foraging to farming in human evolution

FarmingEvolution
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Thomas Craemer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Public PolicyUniversity of Connecticut

Thomas Craemer is an expert on slavery reparations, racial bias and the psychology of racism.

Slavery ReparationsDiversity and InclusionRace Related PoliciesRace RelationsPsychology of Race
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Felicia Pratto, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychological SciencesUniversity of Connecticut

Psychology expert, specializing in race and sex discrimination and intergroup dynamics

Terrorism and counter-terrorismXenophobiaPrejudice, tace- and sex- discrimination in hiringHomophobia Violations of International Humanitarian Law in war-time
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Kurt Schwenk, Ph.D.

Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary BehaviorUniversity of Connecticut

Professor Schwenk studies the functional morphology and evolution of lizards and snakes.

ReptilesLizardsPhenotypic EvolutionEvolutionary BiologyEcology