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  • Bruno S. Bauer, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics; Ph.D. UCLA, 1992. Applications of plasma physics, laser-plasmas, z-pinches, gas discharges, non-neutral plasmas and biomedical applications of soft X-ray microscopes.
  • Dhanesh Chandra, Professor, Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering; Ph.D. Univ. Denver, 1976. Biological applications of small-angle X-ray diffraction, thermal properties of materials, phase transitions.
  • Indira Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering; Ph.D. Univ. of Utah, 1981. Numerical and experimental bioelectromagnetics (effects of electromagnetic fields on the human body), dielectric properties of materials (including tissues), impedance spectroscopy.
  • Gale L. Craviso, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology; Ph.D. New York Univ. 1982. Molecular and biochemical mechanisms of plasticity in catecholamine-producing cells, genetic regulation of catecholamine biosynthetic enzymes in adrenal medullary chromaffin cells, effects of electromagnetic fields on excitable cells.
  • Michael A. Crognale, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ph.D. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara 1989. Development of vision, electrophysiological assessment of vision, genetics and plasticity of color vision.
  • Dwight D. Egbert, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering; Ph.D. Univ. of Kansas 1971. Image processing, neural network computing, parallel computer architecture, digital instrument design, medical decision support systems, machine vision.
  • Cahit A. Evrensel, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D. Lehigh Univ. 1985. Computational and experimental biofluid mechanics of airflow in the lung, mathematical modeling of air-mucus-serous interactions, imaging the air-mucus interface, regulation of mucus clearance.
  • M. Sami Fadali, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering; Ph.D. Univ. of Wyoming 1980. Control and system theory, intelligent control, variable structure control, robust control, two-dimensional systems, kinetic models of membrane channels.
  • Philip H. Goodman, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Care Research; M.D., UC Irvine 1980. Biological and artificial neural network computation.
  • James M. Henson, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Univ. of Arkansas 1991. Signal processing, data extraction, electromagnetics, imaging radar systems.
  • Kenneth W. Hunter, Jr., Professor, Department of Microbiology, Dean of the Graduate School, Vice-President for Research, Sc.D. Johns Hopkins University 1978. Biosensors and analytical instrumentation, molecular immunology and immunochemistry, microbial toxin and toxic chemical immunoassays, immunoregulation in parasitic infections.
  • Bruce P. Johnson, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering; Ph.D. Univ. Missouri, 1967. Integrated circuit design, high frequency electronics and instrumentation, X-ray imaging, electron spin resonance, thin film, solid state displays.
  • Walter K. Johnson, Assistant Dean, College of Engineering; Ph.D. Drexel Univ. 1981. Pulmonary mechanics, biomedical instrumentation.
  • Peter E. Krumpe, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine Section, VA Medical Center; M.D., Emory Univ. 1969. Biophysics of mucous rheology, pharmacokinetics of antibiotics in respiratory secretions, safety and effectiveness of antibiotics in treatment of pulmonary infections, strategies for treatment of cigarette addiction.
  • Manoranjan Misra, Professor, Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Director, Center for Mineral Bioprocessing and Remediation; Univ. Utah, 1981. Surface chemistry, bioprocessing, hydrometallurgy, environmental engineering.
  • Nelson G. Publicover, Professor, Department of Physiology; Ph.D. McGill Univ. 1981. Biophysics of gastrointestinal smooth muscle, mathematical modeling of electrical activity in syncytial tissues, high-rate fluorescence imaging, applications of small angle scattered X-rays, development of a soft X-ray microscope, effects of electromagnetic fields on excitable cells, biosensors, biomedical instrument design.
  • Terence (Terry) K. Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology; Ph.D. Monash University, 1983. Extrinsic and intrinsic (enteric) neural regulation of intestinal motility, fluorescent imaging, electrophysiology.
  • Suk-Wah Tam-Chang, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry; Ph.D. UCLA, 1992. Metallobiochemistry, molecular recognition, properties and application of sensors, self-assembled microsensors, monolayers from alkanethiolate-tethered osmium and ruthenium complexes.
  • Eric L. Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D. Univ. California, Davis, 1995. Biomechanics of sideways falls, smart materials and composites, design of sports equipment.
  • Michael A. Webster, Associate Professor, Psychology Department; Ph.D. Univ. California Berkeley, 1988. Color perception, adaptation in vision, imaging systems.