PURE - Purdue University Research Expertise

Welcome to Purdue University Research Expertise (PURE) Database

Version 3.1 November 2nd, 2007

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Research Areas (1844 faculty)
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES (251 faculty)
  - African Amerian Studies (12 faculty)
  - American Studies (24 faculty)
    - American Film Studies (3 faculty)
    - American Material Culture (0 faculty)
    - American Popular Culture (5 faculty)
    - Ethnic Studies (10 faculty)
  - Art and Design (29 faculty)
    - Art Education (4 faculty)
    - Art History (5 faculty)
    - Fine Arts (8 faculty)
      - Ceramics (0 faculty)
      - Electronic Time-Based Media (0 faculty)
      - Jewelry & Metalsmithing (1 faculty)
      - Painting & Drawing (2 faculty)
      - Printmaking (1 faculty)
      - Sculpture (1 faculty)
      - Textiles (2 faculty)
    - Industrial Design (2 faculty)
    - Interior Design (5 faculty)
    - Photography (2 faculty)
    - Visual Communications Design (6 faculty)
  - Asian Studies (21 faculty)
  - Chinese Language and Literature (3 faculty)
    - Chinese Linguistics (1 faculty)
    - Chinese Literature (2 faculty)
  - Classics (14 faculty)
    - Ancient History Greek and Roman through Late Anti (1 faculty)
    - Ancient Philosophy (4 faculty)
    - Classical Archaeology and Art History (3 faculty)
    - Classical Literature and Philology (3 faculty)
    - Indo-European Linguistics and Philology (0 faculty)
  - Comparative Literature (44 faculty)
  - English Language and Literature (58 faculty)
    - Creative Writing (7 faculty)
    - Critical and Cultural Studies (6 faculty)
    - Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (9 faculty)
    - Literature in English, Anglophone other than Brit (3 faculty)
    - Literature in English, British Isles (18 faculty)
      - Renaissance Studies (1 faculty)
    - Literature in English, North America other than e (14 faculty)
    - Literature in English, North America, ethnic and m (6 faculty)
    - Rhetoric and Composition (10 faculty)
      - Information architecture and design (1 faculty)
      - Professional Writing (5 faculty)
    - Theory (4 faculty)
  - Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (7 faculty)
  - Film Studies (19 faculty)
  - French and Francophone Language and Literature (6 faculty)
    - French and Francophone Literature (5 faculty)
    - French Linguistics (0 faculty)
  - German Language and Literature (5 faculty)
    - German Linguistics (1 faculty)
    - German Literature (3 faculty)
  - History (48 faculty)
    - African (4 faculty)
    - African American History (1 faculty)
    - Agricultural History (1 faculty)
    - Asian (4 faculty)
    - Cultural History (27 faculty)
    - Diplomatic History (9 faculty)
    - Economic History (5 faculty)
    - Environmental History (1 faculty)
    - European (15 faculty)
    - Gender (10 faculty)
    - History of Religion (11 faculty)
    - History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (9 faculty)
    - History of Sport (2 faculty)
    - Intellectual History (9 faculty)
    - Islamic World/Near East (4 faculty)
    - Labor History (1 faculty)
    - Latin American (4 faculty)
    - Legal (8 faculty)
    - Medieval History (3 faculty)
    - Military History (5 faculty)
    - Native American History (2 faculty)
    - Political History (19 faculty)
    - Social History (20 faculty)
    - United States (14 faculty)
    - Womens History (7 faculty)
  - History of Art, Architecture and Archaeology (2 faculty)
    - American Art and Architecture (0 faculty)
    - Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and (0 faculty)
    - Asian Art and Architecture (0 faculty)
    - Contemporary Art (0 faculty)
    - Modern Art and Architecture (1 faculty)
    - Theory and Criticism (1 faculty)
  - Italian Language and Literature (2 faculty)
    - Italian Linguistics (0 faculty)
    - Italian Literature (2 faculty)
  - Japanese Language and Literature (4 faculty)
    - Japanese Linguistics (3 faculty)
    - Japanese Literature (1 faculty)
  - Languages, Cultures and Societies (11 faculty)
    - African Languages and Societies (0 faculty)
    - East Asian Languages and Societies (6 faculty)
    - European Languages and Societies not elsewhere cl (0 faculty)
    - Latin American Languages and Societies not elsewh (1 faculty)
    - Near Eastern Languages and Societies (1 faculty)
    - Slavic Languages and Societies (3 faculty)
  - Medieval Studies (29 faculty)
  - Music except performance (6 faculty)
    - Ethnomusicology (2 faculty)
    - Music Composition (1 faculty)
    - Music Education (2 faculty)
    - Music History (1 faculty)
    - Music Theory (5 faculty)
    - Musicology (0 faculty)
  - Philosophy (31 faculty)
    - African American philosophy (1 faculty)
    - American philosophy (3 faculty)
    - Asian and comparative philosophy (1 faculty)
      - Buddhism (1 faculty)
      - Buddhist-Christian Studies (1 faculty)
    - Asian and comparative philosophy and religion (1 faculty)
    - Continental Philosophy (0 faculty)
    - Epistemology (4 faculty)
    - Esthetics (2 faculty)
    - Ethics and Political Philosophy (17 faculty)
      - Applied ethics (6 faculty)
      - Critical Theory (3 faculty)
      - ethics (8 faculty)
      - ethics and animals (1 faculty)
      - social and political philosophy (4 faculty)
    - Feminist Philosophy (1 faculty)
    - French philosophy (2 faculty)
    - History of Philosophy (11 faculty)
      - 17th and 18th Century philosophy (1 faculty)
      - 18th and 19th Century philosophy of religion (1 faculty)
      - 19th and 20th Century Continental philosophy (2 faculty)
      - ancient philosophy (2 faculty)
      - Early analytic philosophy (1 faculty)
      - early modern philosophy (3 faculty)
      - Kant (2 faculty)
      - medieval philosophy (2 faculty)
        
        Jewish and Islamic Philosophy medieval period (1 faculty)
      - Schleiermacher (1 faculty)
      - Schleuernacher (0 faculty)
    - Logic and foundations of mathematics (2 faculty)
      - logic (1 faculty)
      - philosophy of logic (1 faculty)
      - philosophy of mathematics (2 faculty)
    - Metaphysics (4 faculty)
    - Philosophy of Language (2 faculty)
    - philosophy of law (2 faculty)
    - Philosophy of Mind (1 faculty)
    - Philosophy of religion (6 faculty)
    - Philosophy of Science (6 faculty)
    - Philosophy of social science (1 faculty)
    - pragmatism (2 faculty)
  - Philosophy & Literature (15 faculty)
  - Race, Ethnicity and post-Colonial Studies (8 faculty)
  - Religion (18 faculty)
    - Jewish Studies (18 faculty)
  - Religious Studies (18 faculty)
  - Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Writing (1 faculty)
  - Russian Language and Literature (3 faculty)
    - Russian Linguistics (1 faculty)
    - Russian Literature (2 faculty)
  - Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature (18 faculty)
    - Latin American Literature (8 faculty)
    - Portuguese Literature (1 faculty)
    - Spanish Linguistics (2 faculty)
    - Spanish Literature (7 faculty)
  - Theatre and Performance Studies (18 faculty)
    - Acting (4 faculty)
    - Costume Design (1 faculty)
    - Dance (5 faculty)
      - Ballet (1 faculty)
      - Choreography (4 faculty)
      - Contact Improvisation (1 faculty)
      - Dance History (1 faculty)
      - Improvisation (2 faculty)
      - Interactive Media Performance (1 faculty)
      - Jazz (1 faculty)
      - Modern Dance (4 faculty)
      - Pilates (1 faculty)
    - Design and Technical (3 faculty)
    - Directing (1 faculty)
    - Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory (2 faculty)
    - Light Design (1 faculty)
    - Movement (1 faculty)
    - Performance Studies (5 faculty)
    - Playwriting (1 faculty)
    - Set Design (2 faculty)
    - Sound Design (1 faculty)
    - Theatre (10 faculty)
    - Theatre History (1 faculty)
    - Voice (1 faculty)
- Library and Archival Sciences (39 faculty)
  - Library and Archival Sciences (0 faculty)
- LIFE SCIENCES (559 faculty)
  - Aerosol Science (2 faculty)
  - Animal Sciences (43 faculty)
    - Animal Sciences (2 faculty)
    - Aquaculture and Fisheries (5 faculty)
    - Dairy Science (1 faculty)
    - Poultry or Avian Science (1 faculty)
    - Zoology (1 faculty)
  - Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology (105 faculty)
    - Biochemistry (49 faculty)
    - Biogeochemistry (2 faculty)
    - Biophysics (18 faculty)
    - Molecular Biology (59 faculty)
      - Molecular Systematist (1 faculty)
    - Structural Biology (15 faculty)
  - Bioinformatics (23 faculty)
  - Biotechnology (19 faculty)
  - Cell and Developmental Biology (107 faculty)
    - Anatomy (9 faculty)
    - Cancer Biology (46 faculty)
    - Cell Biology (44 faculty)
    - Developmental Biology (13 faculty)
  - Comparative Pathobiology (22 faculty)
  - Computational Life Science (21 faculty)
    - Systems Biology (1 faculty)
  - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (66 faculty)
    - Behavior and Ethology (7 faculty)
    - Biogeochemistry (1 faculty)
    - Botany (13 faculty)
    - Evolution (10 faculty)
    - Population Biology (29 faculty)
    - Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology (25 faculty)
  - Entomology (26 faculty)
  - Environmental Health (15 faculty)
    - Public Health (14 faculty)
      - Health Physics (2 faculty)
  - Epidemiology (4 faculty)
  - Ergonoimcs (9 faculty)
  - Exposure Assessment and Control (2 faculty)
  - Food Science (26 faculty)
    - Food and Health (5 faculty)
    - Food Biotechnology (2 faculty)
    - Food Chemistry (14 faculty)
    - Food Microbiology (6 faculty)
    - Food Processing (8 faculty)
  - Forestry and Forest Sciences (16 faculty)
    - Forest Biology (7 faculty)
    - Forest Management (6 faculty)
    - Wood Science and Pulp/Paper Technology (5 faculty)
  - Genetics and Genomics (54 faculty)
    - Computational Biology (12 faculty)
    - Genetics (26 faculty)
    - Genomics (16 faculty)
    - Molecular genetics (14 faculty)
  - Human-Animal Bond (5 faculty)
  - Immunology and Infectious Disease (27 faculty)
    - Immunity (2 faculty)
    - Immunology of Infectious Disease (4 faculty)
    - Immunopathology (5 faculty)
    - Immunoprophylaxis and Therapy (5 faculty)
    - Parasitology (3 faculty)
    - Pathology (8 faculty)
  - Integrated Biology/Integrated Biomedical Sciences/ (2 faculty)
  - Kinesiology (21 faculty)
    - Athletic Training (1 faculty)
    - Biomechanics (1 faculty)
    - Exercise Physiology (3 faculty)
    - Motor Control and Development (2 faculty)
    - Psychology of Movement (2 faculty)
    - Sport Psychology (3 faculty)
  - Laboratory Animal Medicine (2 faculty)
  - Microbiology (24 faculty)
    - Bacteriology (3 faculty)
    - Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Ecology (6 faculty)
    - Microbial Physiology (3 faculty)
    - Pathogenic Microbiology (6 faculty)
    - Virology (7 faculty)
  - Molecular Cancer Biology (6 faculty)
  - Molecular Imaging (2 faculty)
  - Nanomedicine (9 faculty)
  - Neuroscience and Neurobiology (38 faculty)
    - Behavioral Neurobiology (4 faculty)
    - Cognitive Neuroscience (5 faculty)
    - Computational Neuroscience (2 faculty)
    - Developmental Neuroscience (4 faculty)
    - Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience (16 faculty)
    - Systems Neuroscience (6 faculty)
  - Neurotoxicity (2 faculty)
  - Nursing (29 faculty)
    - Access to care (2 faculty)
    - Acute Care (1 faculty)
    - Cancer care (3 faculty)
    - Chronic Illness (4 faculty)
    - Cultural Competence (3 faculty)
    - Gerontology (5 faculty)
    - Health Promotion/Public Health (8 faculty)
    - Mental Health (1 faculty)
    - Nursing Education (8 faculty)
    - Patient Safety (3 faculty)
    - Pediatrics (2 faculty)
    - Primary Care (0 faculty)
  - Nutrition (34 faculty)
    - Comparative Nutrition (3 faculty)
    - Human and Clinical Nutrition (10 faculty)
    - International and Community Nutrition (3 faculty)
    - Molecular, Genetic, and Biochemical Nutrition (13 faculty)
    - Nutrition Education (1 faculty)
    - Nutritional Epidemiology (1 faculty)
  - Occupational Health (4 faculty)
  - Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health (64 faculty)
    - Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy (5 faculty)
    - Drug Information (1 faculty)
    - Environmental Health (4 faculty)
    - Medication Safety (3 faculty)
    - Medicinal Chemistry (13 faculty)
    - Nuclear Pharmacy (2 faculty)
    - Pediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy (1 faculty)
    - Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (2 faculty)
    - Pharmaceutical Material Science (1 faculty)
    - Pharmaceutics (12 faculty)
    - Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics (6 faculty)
    - Pharmacology (32 faculty)
    - Psychopharmacology (5 faculty)
    - Toxicology (9 faculty)
  - Physiology (31 faculty)
    - Cellular and Molecular Physiology (5 faculty)
    - Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology (1 faculty)
    - Endocrinology (5 faculty)
    - Exercise Physiology (2 faculty)
    - Systems and Integrative Physiology (4 faculty)
  - Plant Sciences (89 faculty)
    - Agronomy and Crop Sciences (23 faculty)
    - Botany (0 faculty)
    - Horticulture (17 faculty)
    - Plant Biology (27 faculty)
    - Plant Breeding and Genetics (4 faculty)
    - Plant Pathology (15 faculty)
    - Weed Science (5 faculty)
  - Public Health (39 faculty)
    - Biostatistics (2 faculty)
    - Environmental Health (1 faculty)
    - Epidemiology (11 faculty)
    - Health Behavior (7 faculty)
    - Health Policy and Administration (5 faculty)
    - Health Promotion (12 faculty)
    - Infectious Disease Control (4 faculty)
    - Minority Health (3 faculty)
    - Pedagogy (4 faculty)
    - Philosophy of Sport (1 faculty)
    - Sport Management and Administration (2 faculty)
    - Sport Pedagogy (1 faculty)
  - Radiation Biology (1 faculty)
  - Radiopharmaceuticals (1 faculty)
  - Respiratory Physiology (2 faculty)
  - Science Education (26 faculty)
    - Biology Education (2 faculty)
    - Chemistry Education (2 faculty)
    - Earth Space Science Education (3 faculty)
    - Geoenvironmental Science Education (3 faculty)
    - Physics Education (2 faculty)
  - Systems Biology (7 faculty)
- MANAGEMENT (95 faculty)
  - Accounting (10 faculty)
  - Business Law (4 faculty)
  - E-business (4 faculty)
  - Finance (12 faculty)
  - Management Education (10 faculty)
  - Management Information Systems (6 faculty)
  - Marketing (8 faculty)
  - Operations management (16 faculty)
  - Organizational Behavior/Human Resources (24 faculty)
  - Quantitative Methods (9 faculty)
  - Strategic Management (13 faculty)
  - Teaching Faculty from Other Schools (1 faculty)
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, ENGINEERING, AND T (820 faculty)
  - Aerospace Engineering (40 faculty)
    - Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics (12 faculty)
    - Aeronautical Engineering (24 faculty)
    - Aeronautical Vehicles (10 faculty)
    - Astrodynamics (3 faculty)
    - Hypersonics (1 faculty)
    - Micro UAVs (3 faculty)
    - Multi-Vehicle Systems and Air Traffic Control (1 faculty)
    - Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (8 faculty)
    - Navigation, Guidance, Control and Dynamics (10 faculty)
    - Propulsion and Power (5 faculty)
    - Smart Structures (4 faculty)
    - Space Systems (5 faculty)
    - Structures and Materials (8 faculty)
    - Systems Engineering and Multidisciplinary Design (4 faculty)
    - Vertical Flight (3 faculty)
  - Agriculture and Biological Engineering (3 faculty)
  - Applied Mathematics (46 faculty)
    - Control Theory (7 faculty)
    - Dynamic Systems (6 faculty)
    - Non-linear Dynamics (2 faculty)
    - Numerical Analysis and Computation (15 faculty)
    - Ordinary Differential Equations and Applied Dynami (6 faculty)
    - Partial Differential Equations (23 faculty)
  - Astrophysics and Astronomy (4 faculty)
    - Cosmology (1 faculty)
    - External Galaxies (1 faculty)
    - Instrumentation (1 faculty)
    - Physical Processes (0 faculty)
    - Stars, Interstellar Medium and the Galaxy (1 faculty)
    - The Sun and the Solar System (0 faculty)
  - Aviation Technology (3 faculty)
  - Biomedical and Biomedical Optics (1 faculty)
  - Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering (37 faculty)
    - Bioelectrical and neuroengineering (9 faculty)
    - Bioimaging (5 faculty)
    - Bioimaging and biomedical optics (6 faculty)
    - Biological Engineering (3 faculty)
    - Biomaterials (9 faculty)
    - Biomechanics and biotransport (3 faculty)
    - Biomedical devices and instrumentation (16 faculty)
    - Molecular, cellular, and tissue engineering (7 faculty)
    - Systems and integrative engineering (2 faculty)
  - Building and Construction Management (7 faculty)
  - Chemical Engineering (49 faculty)
    - Biochemical and Biomolecular Engineering (5 faculty)
    - Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (6 faculty)
    - Complex Fluids (5 faculty)
    - Interfacial phenomena (10 faculty)
    - Membrane Science (1 faculty)
    - MEMS (6 faculty)
    - Molecular and nanoscale modeling (4 faculty)
    - Nanoscience and nanotechnology (17 faculty)
    - Petroleum Engineering (0 faculty)
    - Polymer Science (6 faculty)
    - Process Control and Systems (5 faculty)
    - Separations (5 faculty)
    - Thermodynamics (6 faculty)
    - Transport Phenomena (10 faculty)
  - Chemistry (89 faculty)
    - Analytical Chemistry (23 faculty)
    - Biochemistry (19 faculty)
    - Chemical Biology (19 faculty)
    - Chemical Education (6 faculty)
    - Environmental Chemistry (8 faculty)
    - Inorganic Chemistry (10 faculty)
    - Materials Chemistry (19 faculty)
    - Medicinal-Pharmaceutical Chemistry (21 faculty)
    - Organic Chemistry (22 faculty)
    - Physical Chemistry (18 faculty)
    - Polymer Chemistry (11 faculty)
  - Civil and Environmental Engineering (62 faculty)
    - Environmental Engineering (16 faculty)
    - Geomatics Engineering Surveying (6 faculty)
    - Geotechnical Engineering (6 faculty)
    - Hydraulic and Hydrological Engineering (6 faculty)
    - Materials Engineering (4 faculty)
    - Structural Engineering (12 faculty)
    - Transportation Engineering (13 faculty)
  - Computational Science and Engineering (117 faculty)
    - Computational Engineering (39 faculty)
    - Computational Science (81 faculty)
  - Computer and Information Technology (3 faculty)
  - Computer Engineering (51 faculty)
    - Computer and Systems Architecture (10 faculty)
    - Data Storage Systems (6 faculty)
    - Digital Circuits (7 faculty)
    - Digital Communications and Networking (18 faculty)
    - Hardware Systems (4 faculty)
    - Robotics (6 faculty)
  - Computer Graphics Technology (29 faculty)
  - Computer Sciences (111 faculty)
    - Artificial Intelligence/Robotics (16 faculty)
    - Databases/Information Systems (20 faculty)
    - Graphics/Human Computer Interfaces (19 faculty)
    - Hardware/Architecture (2 faculty)
    - Numerical Analysis/Scientific Computing (23 faculty)
    - OS/Networks (23 faculty)
    - Programming Languages/Compilers (10 faculty)
    - Software Engineering (14 faculty)
    - Theory/Algorithms (22 faculty)
  - Construction Engineering and Management (11 faculty)
  - Earth Sciences (68 faculty)
    - Biogeochemistry (11 faculty)
    - Cosmochemistry (4 faculty)
    - Environmental Sciences (24 faculty)
    - Geochemistry (12 faculty)
    - Geochemistry (1 faculty)
    - Geology (12 faculty)
    - Geophysics and Seismology (16 faculty)
    - Mineral Physics (2 faculty)
    - Paleobiology (2 faculty)
    - Paleontology (3 faculty)
    - Soil Science (15 faculty)
    - Tectonics and Structure (8 faculty)
  - Electrical and Computer Engineering (78 faculty)
    - Biomedical (12 faculty)
    - Computer Engineering (8 faculty)
    - Control Theory (2 faculty)
    - Controls (13 faculty)
    - Electrical and Electronics (12 faculty)
    - Electromagnetics and photonics (11 faculty)
    - Electronic Devices and Semiconductor Manufacturing (16 faculty)
    - Nanotechnology fabrication (10 faculty)
    - Power and Energy (11 faculty)
    - Systems and Communications (27 faculty)
    - VLSI and circuits Embedded/Hardware Systems (9 faculty)
  - Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (1 faculty)
  - Engineering Education (47 faculty)
    - Adaptive Expertise (2 faculty)
    - Design of interdisciplinary learning environments (5 faculty)
    - Design thinking and learning (4 faculty)
    - Engineering education curriculum reform (7 faculty)
    - Interdisciplinary thinking (5 faculty)
    - Outcome-based assessment (7 faculty)
    - P-12 Education (9 faculty)
    - Problem Solving (7 faculty)
    - Reasoning with mathematics and models (2 faculty)
    - Res. strategies on learning and teaching practice (6 faculty)
  - Environmental and Ecology Engineering (3 faculty)
  - High Performance Computing (146 faculty)
  - Industrial Engineering (1 faculty)
  - Industrial Technology (7 faculty)
  - Information Science (8 faculty)
  - Information Security (49 faculty)
  - Materials Science and Engineering (33 faculty)
    - Biology and Biomimetic Materials (4 faculty)
    - Biomaterials (4 faculty)
    - Ceramic Materials (7 faculty)
    - Electron Microscopy (3 faculty)
    - High Temperature Materials (8 faculty)
    - Materials Processing (21 faculty)
    - Metallurgy (4 faculty)
    - Modeling of Materials (6 faculty)
    - Polymer and Organic Materials (6 faculty)
    - Semiconductor and Optical Materials (6 faculty)
    - Structural Materials (9 faculty)
    - Thin Films (7 faculty)
  - Mathematics (84 faculty)
    - Algebra (15 faculty)
    - Algebraic Geometry (11 faculty)
    - Analysis (32 faculty)
    - Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics (1 faculty)
    - Dynamics/Dynamical Systems (7 faculty)
    - Financial Mathematics (3 faculty)
    - Geometry and Topology (10 faculty)
    - Harmonic Analysis and Representation (6 faculty)
    - Logic and Foundations (2 faculty)
    - Mathematics Education (7 faculty)
    - Nonlinear Dynamics (9 faculty)
    - Number Theory (6 faculty)
    - Set Theory (0 faculty)
  - Mechanical Engineering (79 faculty)
    - Acoustics, Dynamics, and Controls (24 faculty)
    - Applied Mechanics (14 faculty)
    - Biomechanical Engineering (8 faculty)
    - Computational Engineering (8 faculty)
    - Computer-Aided Engineering and Design (13 faculty)
    - Electro-Mechanical Systems (10 faculty)
    - Energy Systems (17 faculty)
    - Fluid Mechanics & Propulsion (11 faculty)
    - Heat Transfer, Combustion (20 faculty)
    - Manufacturing (15 faculty)
    - Tribology (3 faculty)
  - Mechanical Engineering Technology (2 faculty)
  - Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (27 faculty)
  - Nuclear Engineering (13 faculty)
  - Numerical Analysis/Scientific Computing (1 faculty)
  - Oceanography, Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology (25 faculty)
    - Atmospheric Sciences (17 faculty)
    - Climate (11 faculty)
    - Fresh Water Studies (6 faculty)
    - Meteorology (11 faculty)
    - Oceanography (3 faculty)
  - Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Indus (38 faculty)
    - Human Factors (11 faculty)
    - Industrial Engineering (26 faculty)
    - Manufacturing (7 faculty)
    - Operational Research (13 faculty)
    - Production Systems (7 faculty)
    - Systems Engineering (22 faculty)
  - Organizational Leadership and Supervision (7 faculty)
  - Pharmaceutical Engineering (6 faculty)
  - Physics (54 faculty)
    - Astronomy and Astrophysics (7 faculty)
    - Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (3 faculty)
    - Biological and Chemical Physics (7 faculty)
    - Condensed Matter Physics (16 faculty)
    - Cosmology, Relativity, and Gravity (3 faculty)
    - Elementary Particles and Fields and String Theory (16 faculty)
    - Engineering Physics (3 faculty)
    - Experimental Physics (32 faculty)
    - Fluid Dynamics (0 faculty)
    - Non-linear Dynamics (0 faculty)
    - Nuclear (9 faculty)
    - Plasma and Beam Physics (1 faculty)
    - Quantum Physics (1 faculty)
    - Theoretical Physics (19 faculty)
  - Science of Information (2 faculty)
  - Statistics and Probability (43 faculty)
    - Biometry (9 faculty)
    - Biostatistics (5 faculty)
    - Probability (12 faculty)
    - Statistical Theory (30 faculty)
- SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (434 faculty)
  - Agricultural and Resource Economics (49 faculty)
  - Anthropology (12 faculty)
    - Archaeological (3 faculty)
    - Biological and Physical (3 faculty)
    - Social and Cultural (6 faculty)
  - Child Development and Family Studies (22 faculty)
    - Child Develpment (10 faculty)
    - Family Studies (11 faculty)
  - Communication (63 faculty)
    - Advertising (7 faculty)
    - Audiology (6 faculty)
    - Augmentative & Alternative Communication (1 faculty)
    - Communication Studies including interpersonal, or (14 faculty)
    - Health Communication (16 faculty)
    - Hearing Science (5 faculty)
    - Interpersonal Communication (3 faculty)
    - Issues Management (1 faculty)
    - Issues Management/PR (5 faculty)
    - Mass Communication (12 faculty)
    - Organizational Communication (8 faculty)
    - Rhetorical Studies (5 faculty)
    - Speech & Hearing Disorders (3 faculty)
    - Speech and Rhetorical Studies (0 faculty)
    - Speech Disorders (3 faculty)
    - Speech-Language Pathology (6 faculty)
  - Criminology and Criminal Justice (2 faculty)
  - Economics (36 faculty)
    - Antitrust Economics (3 faculty)
    - Banking (1 faculty)
    - Behavioral Economics (2 faculty)
    - Consumer Economics (4 faculty)
    - Econometrics (6 faculty)
    - Economic History (0 faculty)
    - Economic Theory (3 faculty)
    - Economics of Information (4 faculty)
    - Experimental Economics (3 faculty)
    - Finance and Investments (1 faculty)
      - Market Microstructure (1 faculty)
    - Growth and Development (1 faculty)
    - Industrial Organization (8 faculty)
    - International Economics (7 faculty)
    - Labor Economics (2 faculty)
    - Law and Economics (3 faculty)
    - Macroeconomics (5 faculty)
    - Monetary Economics (3 faculty)
    - Pharmacoeconomics (4 faculty)
    - Public Economics (2 faculty)
  - Education (86 faculty)
    - Agricultural and Extension Education (12 faculty)
    - Art Education (3 faculty)
    - Career and Technical Education (10 faculty)
    - Consumer & Family Sciences and Extension Education (16 faculty)
    - Counseling Psychology (0 faculty)
    - Curriculum Studies (8 faculty)
    - Educational Foundations (2 faculty)
    - Educational Leadership (4 faculty)
    - Educational Psychology (5 faculty)
    - Educational Technology (14 faculty)
    - English Education (4 faculty)
    - Gifted Education (2 faculty)
    - Literacy & Language Education (10 faculty)
    - School Counseling (0 faculty)
    - Social Studies Education (4 faculty)
    - Special Education (1 faculty)
    - Technology Education (10 faculty)
  - Family Studies (12 faculty)
  - Geography and Regional Science (10 faculty)
    - Geographic Information Sciences (5 faculty)
    - Human Geography (0 faculty)
    - Nature and Society Relations (3 faculty)
    - Physical and Environmental Geography (1 faculty)
  - Gerontology (9 faculty)
  - HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT (16 faculty)
    - Food Service (9 faculty)
    - Hospitality (16 faculty)
    - Hotel (10 faculty)
    - Lodging (10 faculty)
    - Restaurant (8 faculty)
    - Tourism (10 faculty)
  - Human Development (21 faculty)
  - Land use planning (1 faculty)
  - Linguistics (28 faculty)
    - Anthropological Linguistics/Sociolinguistics (4 faculty)
    - Applied Linguistics (5 faculty)
    - Comparative and Historical Linguistics and Linguis (4 faculty)
    - Computational Linguistics (4 faculty)
    - Discourse/Text Linguistics (1 faculty)
    - First/Second Language Acquisition (8 faculty)
    - Historical/Typological Linguistics (1 faculty)
    - Language Description/Documentation (2 faculty)
    - Morphology (1 faculty)
    - Phonetics/Phonology (6 faculty)
    - Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics (5 faculty)
    - Scandinavian Languages (1 faculty)
    - Semantics/Pragmatics (4 faculty)
    - Sign Language (2 faculty)
    - Syntax (3 faculty)
  - Marriage and Family Therapy (0 faculty)
  - Political Science (27 faculty)
    - American Politics (9 faculty)
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Find Doctoral Dissertations	Name	Department	Keyword(s)	Research Areas/Centers
Find Doctoral Dissertations	Name	Department (Campus)	Keyword(s)	Research Areas/Centers
	JAMES CARUTHERS	CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, West Lafayette		Applied Mechanics Birck Nanotechnology Center Computational Engineering Computational Life Science Cyber Center Graphics/Human Computer Interfaces Modeling of Materials Numerical Analysis/Scientific Computing Polymer Chemistry Polymer Science Polymer and Organic Materials Transport Phenomena e-Enterprise Center
	JOHN CUSHMAN	EARTH/ATMOSPHERIC SC, West Lafayette	environmental science geophysics hydrology microbial dynamics mixing multiphase physics multiscale science	Biogeochemistry Computational Science Earth Sciences Environmental Sciences Geochemistry Geology Geophysics and Seismology Polymer and Organic Materials Soil Science Tectonics and Structure
	RODNEY HANDY	MECHANICAL ENGR TECH, West Lafayette		Center for Advanced Manufacturing Environmental Engineering Environmental Health Manufacturing Occupational Health Polymer and Organic Materials
	CHRISTINE LADISCH	OFC OF THE PROVOST, West Lafayette		Polymer and Organic Materials
	R PIPES	AERO & ASTRO, West Lafayette CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, West Lafayette MATERIALS ENGR, West Lafayette	applications of nanotechnologies carbon nanotubes composite materials polymer science	Birck Nanotechnology Center Center for Advanced Manufacturing Materials Processing Nanoscience and nanotechnology Polymer Science Polymer and Organic Materials Structural Materials e-Enterprise Center
	RODNEY TRICE	MATERIALS ENGR, West Lafayette	ceramic processing high temperature ceramics thermal barrier coatings	Birck Nanotechnology Center Center for Advanced Manufacturing Ceramic Materials High Temperature Materials Materials Processing Polymer and Organic Materials Structural Materials

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