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| Anthropology | ||
| George
Gmelch, Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Anthropology 518-388-6083 |
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| Topics | The Development and Social Impacts of Tourism | |
| Applied Anthropology (what anthropologists do, with examples from my English Gypsy research and Alaskan National Parks research) | ||
| Field Programs in Anthropology (their organization, curriculum, and educational outcomes) | ||
| The Culture of Professional Baseball in America | ||
| Baseball as a microcosm of Culture | ||
| Irish Travelers (a case study of commercial nomadism) | ||
| Biology | ||
| Bridgit Goldman, Visiting Assistant Professor 518-388-8766 |
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| Topics | The Effects of Phytochrome on Anthocyanin Accumulation in Arabidopsis | |
| Kathleen LoGiudice, Assistant Professor 518-388-6409 |
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| Topics | Biodiversity and Disease Risk | |
| Conservation of the Allegheny Wood Rat | ||
| Chemistry | ||
| James
C. Adrian, Jr., Associate Professor 518-388-6406 |
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| Topics | Multiple Component Chemistry: Putting All the Pieces Together | |
| Using Molecular Recognition to Develop a Research Based Course for Advanced Organic Chemistry | ||
| Aquatic Communication: the Chemical Nature of Alarm Pheromones | ||
| Mary
Carroll, Professor 518-388-6336 |
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| Topics | Aerogel-Platform Optical Sensors for Oxygen Gas | |
| Understanding Aerogel Materials Through the Use of Fluorescent Probes | ||
| Laboratory Experiments in Forensic Chemistry for Non-Science Majors | ||
| Classics | ||
| Hans-Friedrich
Mueller, Professor 518-388-8748 |
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| Topics | Nocturnal Conspiracy in Ancient Rome | |
| Nocturnal Religion in Ancient Rome | ||
| Economics | ||
| Tomas
Dvorak, Associate Professor 518-388-8016 |
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| Topics | Exchange Rates | |
| Balance of Payments | ||
| Capital Flows | ||
| International Stock Markets | ||
| Why Some Countries Are Rich and Others Are Poor | ||
| The Differences in Market Institutions Around the World | ||
| English | ||
| Bernhard Kuhn, Associate Professor 518-388-8029 |
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| Topics | 18th and 19th Century European and American Literature and more specifically, the relations between literature and science (both general and for the specific periods listed) | |
| Anupama
Jain, Assistant Professor 518-388-6031 |
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| Topics | South Asian American Literature and Culture: Processes of Assimilation |
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| Postcolonial Literature in the 20th Century: Issues of Race, Gender, and Nation | ||
| Asian American Literary Studies: Different Themes within the Literature, Including Inter-generational Conflicts, Identity, and Immigration | ||
| Jordan Smith, Professor 518-388-6573 |
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| Topics | Poetry Readings | |
| Teaching and Women's Studies | ||
| Geology | ||
| John
I. Garver, Professor 518-388-6770 |
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| Topics | Geology of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East | |
| Neogene Evolution of the Peruvian Andes | ||
| George Shaw, Professor 518-388-6310 |
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| Topics | How can we know Earth's early atmosphere was strongly reducing, NOT nitrogen and carbon dioxide | |
| Hydrologic characteristics of a karat system, Schoharie County, NY | ||
| Trace element chemistry of apatite phenocrysts from altered volcanic ash layers: a tool for stratigraphy, sedimentology and petrology | ||
| Numerical modeling of river networks | ||
| History | ||
| Mark
Walker, Professor 518-388-6994 |
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| Topics | Looking in a Dark Mirror: the Evolution of Our Understanding of Neanderthals | |
| Nazi Science? | ||
| A Comparative History of Nuclear Weapons | ||
| Mathematics | ||
| David
Cervone, Associate Professor 518-388-6557 |
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| Topics | Visualizing the Fourth Dimension | |
| Brenda
Johnson, Professor and Chair 518-388-6162 |
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| Topics | Knots and Links in Graphs | |
| Dynamical Systems in Elementary Number Theory | ||
| Peter
Otto, Visiting Assistant Professor 518-388-8351 |
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| Topics | Introduction to Percolation Theory | |
| Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems | ||
| William Zwicker, Professor 518-388-6160 |
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| Topics | I stubbed my toe on the foundations of mathematics: the Hypergame paradox | |
| When Does an Election Reflect an Average Opinion | ||
| Modern Languages & Literatures | ||
| Christine
Henseler, Associate Professor of Spanish 518-388-8021 |
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| Topics | Contemporary Spanish Literature | |
| Contemporary Spanish Women's Narrative | ||
| History of the Publishing Industry | ||
| Performing Arts | ||
| Jennifer
Matsue, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor 518-388-8075 |
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| Topics | Women Making-Music in Contemporary Japan (with a focus on popular music) | |
| The Language of hardcore: Analyzing Popular Music (with a focus on Japanese hardcore rock) | ||
| Identity and Popular Music Practice (with a focus on Japanese underground scene) | ||
| Gendered Ethnography | ||
| Philosophy | ||
| Robert
Baker, Professor 518-388-6215 |
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| Topics | The Strange History of the Hippocratic Oath: From Hippocrates to Holocaust to Today | |
| The Case of the Jogging Lawyer: Has Bioethics Made a Difference? | ||
| Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bioethics but Never Had a Chance to Ask: From Assisted Reproduction, Blastocysts, Cloning, DNR Orders, Euthanasia and to Xenographs, Yersinia Pestis, Zygote Intra-Fallopian Transfer | ||
| Raymond Martin, Professor 518-388-8011 |
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| Topics | Contemporary Personal Identity Theory | |
| History of Western Theories of the Self and of Personal Identity | ||
| Philosophy of History | ||
| Linda E. Patrik, Professor 518-388-6240 |
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| Topics | Tibetan Buddhism | |
| Cyberfeminism | ||
| Comparative Philosophy | ||
| Physics and Astronomy | ||
| Chad R. Orzel, Associate Professor 518-388-8053 |
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| Topics | Counting Atoms for Astrophysics: Atom Traps, Neutrino Detectors, and Radioactive Background Measurements | |
| Rebecca
A. Surman, Associate Professor 518-388-6649 |
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| Topics | Heavy element synthesis in supernovae and general nucleosynthesis in gamma-ray bursts | |
| Michael Vineyard, Professor 518-388-8353 |
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| Topics | The Magnetic Structure of the Neutron | |
| Recent Results in Electromagnetic Nuclear Physics at Jefferson Lab | ||
| Political Science | ||
| Robert Hislope, Associate Professor 518-388-7094 |
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| Topics | When Being Bad is Good: The Role of Corruption in Divided Societies | |
| From Expressive to Actionable Hatred: Ethnic Divisions and Riots in Macedonia | ||
| Thomas
Lobe, Research Professor 518-388-6626 |
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| Topics | The CIA and the Art of Intelligence: Restructure? | |
| Politics in Film: Perceptions of War and Social Conflict | ||
| The U.S. in Iraq: How to Withdraw | ||
| The U.S. in the World: Unilateralism vs. Multilateralism | ||
| Psychology | ||
| George Bizer, Assistant Professor 518-388-6228 |
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| Topics | The Power of NO: How framing our Opinions Negatively Makes Us More Resistant to Persuasion | |
| Social Psychology | ||
| Attitudes | ||
| Persuasion | ||
| Attitude Strength | ||
| Communications | ||
| Stephen
Romero, Associate Professor 518-388-7106 |
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| Topics | Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Study of the Human Brain: Function and Dysfunction | |
| Cognitive Neuroscience Methodology | ||
| Four Forms of Neuroplasticity in the Human Brain | ||
| Sociology | ||
| Melinda
Goldner, Associate Professor 518-388-6725 |
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| Topics | Complementary & Alternative Medicine | |
| People Who Search the Internet for Health Information | ||
