Daheia Barr-Anderson's research focuses on physical activity, sedentary behaviors, and obesity prevention in children and adolescents, especially African-American females. Her research examines multi-level factors that influence physical activity among youth and is testing the efficacy of community- and family-based interventions designed to increase physical activity and improve nutrition among sedentary individuals.

Gordon Burtch does pioneering work on the topic of online crowdfunding. His research explores and quantifies the influence and economic impact of social mechanisms on individual participation in, and contributions toward, online venues. His work has explored the antecedents and economic consequences of peer influence and individual anonymity amongst contributors, as well as the impact of supplying users with website anonymity features.

David Flannigan is the leading inventor and pioneer of time-resolved, ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM), a technique that is revolutionizing our understanding of the atomic scale structure of materials. One of his important breakthroughs is the direct imaging of lattice phonons (vibrations) in semiconductors. Phonons are responsible for acoustic and thermal energy transport in materials.

Michael Gallope has established a distinguished record of academic achievement for his work in the areas of music, philosophy, and the cultural history of the avant-garde.

Christian Uwe’s scholarship joins together literature, semiotics, and philosophy to investigate contemporary forms of cultural and political existence. Drawing particularly on sub-Saharan, Caribbean, and French literatures, his research proposes a comparative examination of crises such as contemporary afterlives of the colonial project, environmental degradation, migration, and attendant geopolitical conflicts.

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field studies racism and mortality in the United States in two settings: the early twentieth century and the Covid-19 pandemic. Some of her work puts mortality inequities into new perspective with surprising comparisons; for example, she showed that, during the Covid-19 pandemic, white mortality was still not as high as Black mortality has been every year, long before the pandemic. She also helped lead an award-winning community Covid-19 vaccination program (based in Minneapolis’s Seward neighborhood).

Ya Yang is recognized nationally and internationally as one of the top researchers working in the field of plant functional phylogenomics—a field of molecular evolution that utilizes genome sequences to analyze and reconstruct evolution. In addition to her impressive track record in funding, scholarship, and teaching, Dr. Yang also serves as the curator of plants for the University of Minnesota Herbarium at the Bell Museum of Natural History. Dr.

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon’s publicly engaged and empirical research has made contributions to the understanding of digital innovation and engagement in journalism. She studies digital media as structuring conditions of journalistic work, including how old and new actors adapt and respond to change in digital innovation, and the cultural forces of change in news organizations and the news industry.

V.V. Ganeshananthan is a fiction writer and essayist who writes about Ilankai / Lankan Tamil communities and the Sri Lankan civil war. Her debut novel, Love Marriage, was longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of The Washington Post’s Best of 2008. Her work has appeared in The New York Times​, Granta, Columbia Journalism Review​, and Best American Nonrequired Reading, ​among others.​ She co-hosts the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, which is about the intersection of literature and the news. She has taught classes on novel writing, plot and revision, and political literature.

Carrie Henning-Smith is a public health researcher who focuses on health equity and the structural drivers of health for rural populations, with an emphasis on mental health and social well-being for older adults and people with historically marginalized identities. In her work, she uses a range of methodologies to examine the role of policy, geography, and community context in shaping health outcomes, including loneliness and social isolation. Dr.