Avik Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ghosh and his team are investigating how to make transistors faster and more reliable by understanding how elements at the nanoscale and microscale interact. READ MORE

David Green, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

Green’s is exploring a largely uncharted area of chemical and materials engineering by experimentally and theoretically examining the impact of grafting polymer chains to nanoparticles. READ MORE

Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Gurumurthi's research seeks to unite computer information storage and processing. He and his students are simulating different architectures for the adaptive active storage systems. READ MORE

Kim Hazelwood, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Hazelwood is exploring the symbiotic relationship between various hardware and software design layers, and the corresponding opportunity to provide cohesive solutions to performance, power, reliability, and temperature problems. READ MORE

Kelsey Johnson, Assistant Professor, Astronomy

Johnson is constructing computer models that enable her to test her theories about massive star formation. READ MORE

Jason Lawrence, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Lawrence is working on new digital models of the way materials scatter light to synthesize the visual appearance of real-world 3D objects. READ MORE

Austen Lamacraft, Assistant Professor, Physics

Lamacraft is investigating magnetic phenomena in the very coldest systems that can be created in a laboratory: gases of alkali metal atoms a million times thinner than air. Such extreme conditions are worth studying partly because the structure of the atoms imparts the gas with magnetic behavior quite unlike any other systems we know.

Steven McIntosh, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

McIntosh is examining the interplay between catalysis and ion transport so that he can develop a range of novel materials to create high performance fuel cells that can operate with currently available fuels. READ MORE

Irina Mitrea, Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Irina Mitrea is developing tools to solve mathematical problems that arise in physics and engineering in domains that have intricate/irregular geometry.
Her findings may be applicable to heat diffusion and elasticity problems.
She is also working on outreach activities to make mathematics as a field attractive to a larger audience. READ MORE

Jason Papin, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Papin is studying Leishmania major, an insidious parasite transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected sandfly. His use of systems biology and computer modeling to investigate infectious disease processes is bringing pathogen-host interactions research to a whole new level. READ MORE

Todd Scanlon, Assistant Professor, Environmental Science

Scanlon is focusing on environmental research in two distinct areas of the Commonwealth.  The first project will examine nitrous oxide emissions on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and the second will investigate mercury transformation in Shenandoah National Park. READ MORE

Jill Venton, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Venton’s research aims for a better understanding of neurotransmission—the brain’s method of communicating and controlling critical functions such as behavior, movement, and mood. READ MORE