Research projects involve real-world situations ranging from local schools to higher education departments and other formal and informal learning settings.
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Chandra Orrill
Professor
STEM Education & Teacher Development
Liberal Arts 399L
Research
Research interests
- Teacher Knowledge of Proportions and Fractions
- Development of Tools and Curriculum for Supporting Teacher Learning of Mathematics
- Integration of Computational Thinking into Elementary Math Classrooms
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John Buck
Chancellor Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dion 324B
Research
Research interests
- Signal Processing
- Underwater Acoustics
- Animal Bioacoustics
- Engineering Pedagogy
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Ramprasad Balasubramanian
Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor
Academic Affairs / Provost
Foster Administration 315
Research
Research interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Mobile Robotics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Motion Detection and Tracking
- Pattern Recognition
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Shakhnoza Kayumova
Associate Professor
STEM Education & Teacher Development
Liberal Arts 396G
Research
Research interests
- Exploration of the conditions of possibility for the inclusion of culturally, economically and linguistically diverse students in science education and literacy engagement
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Stephen Witzig
Associate Professor
STEM Education & Teacher Development
Liberal Arts 398E
Research
Research interests
- Development of teachers’ specialized knowledge for teaching science
- Socioscientific issues based education
- Informal science contexts & field based teaching/learning
- Scientific practices & formative assessment in science
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Walter Stroup
Associate Professor / Chairperson
STEM Education & Teacher Development
Liberal Arts 398B
Research
Research interests
- Development of generative design to support group-based, socially mediated, STEM focused classroom learning for grades three through university
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Eric Larson
Associate Professor
Crime & Justice Studies
Liberal Arts 399J
Research
Research interests
- Hemispheric American Studies
- Comparative Race & Ethnicity
- Neoliberalism
- Labor
- Transnational Social Movements
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Heidi Berggren
Associate Professor
Political Science
Liberal Arts 328
Research
Research interests
- Co-housing Movement
- Work-Family Policy
- Social Policy
- Gender and Politics
- Gender-Role Attitudes
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Shakhnoza Kayumova
Associate Professor
STEM Education & Teacher Development
Liberal Arts 396G
Research
Research interests
- Exploration of the conditions of possibility for the inclusion of culturally, economically and linguistically diverse students in science education and literacy engagement
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Brian Williams
Professor
History
Liberal Arts 334
Research
Research interests
- America's post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria
- CIA drone warfare and global counter-terrorism
- Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorism and warfare
- Islamic Central Asia, Crimea, Russia, Chechnya, Ukraine, Turkey, Balkans
- History of the Ottoman Islamic and Mongol Empires and Barbarian conquests
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Dilshod Achilov
Associate Professor
Political Science
Liberal Arts 317
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Hillary Farber
Professor
Law School / Faculty
UMass School of Law 224
Research
Research interests
- Criminal Law
- Criminal procedure issues, with a particular focus on juveniles and issues of privacy
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