Search Result For: Environment
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Jonathan Gilligan
Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Expert on the impact of human behavior and public policy on climate, with a focus on how small changes add up to make big differences.
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Michael Vandenbergh
Professor of Law
Expert in environmental law and how private industry can help slow climate change.
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Janey Camp
Research Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Expert on climate change and interactions of nature and infrastructure.
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Associate Professor of Psychology
Neuroscientist and international expert in how brain size and structure affect cognition and longevity in animals.
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David Lewis
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science
Expert in federal bureaucracy, including agency performance, agency oversight and the political appointment process.
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Joni Hersch
Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair Professor of Law and Economics; Co-Director, Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics
Expert in employment discrimination, focusing particularly on women, minorities and immigrants.
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Cynthia Reinhart-King
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Director of Graduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical engineering expert whose research focuses on reducing cancer metastasis and artery hardening.
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Audrey Bowden
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Expert in light-based tools for applications to medicine and biology, including early detection, diagnosis and therapy.
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Bruce Compas
Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Professor of Pediatrics, Co-Director of Clinical Psychology Training, and Director of Psychology at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
An expert on how stress affects the physical and mental health of children and families, and the power of coping and preventative measures.
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Georgene Troseth
Associate Professor of Psychology
An expert in how toddlers' brains process (and learn from) what they see on screens, TV and video chat.
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T.S. Harvey
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Expert in cross-cultural doctor-patient interactions, public health communications, disaster relief and crisis management.
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Ken Catania
Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences
Expert on sensory systems' impact on animal behavior, particularly naked mole rats, star-nosed moles, cockroaches and eels.
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Larry Van Horn
Associate Professor of Management and Executive Director of Health Affairs
Expert in health care management, health insurance policy and health care economics.
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Keivan Stassun
Stevenson Professor of Physics
Expert in the search for Earth-like planets across the galaxy and an advocate for diversity, including neurodiversity, in the academy.
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Larisa DeSantis
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Studies mammal teeth and bones to determine how they responded to ancient climate change and reasons why they went extinct.
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David Weintraub
Professor of Astronomy; Director of Undergraduate Studies; Director of Program in Communication of Science & Technology
Expert in astrophysics who also writes about extraterrestrial life, human space travel and space colonization.
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Erin Calipari
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Expert in the neuroscience of mental illness and addiction, including gender differences.
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Norbert Ross
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Expert in child centered anthropology, including children and violence.
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