Arts and Humanities: Natalia Molina
NATALIA MOLINA is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Urban Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. Her first book, Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939, received the Norris and Carol Hundley Award from the American Historical Association in 2007. Her current book project, Immigration as a Process of Racial Formation: Mexican Immigration to the United States, 1924-1942, uses an array of archival sources and...
Biological Sciences: Shelley Halpain
SHELLEY HALPAIN received her B.S. in Biological Sciences at UC Irvine, and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Rockefeller University in New York City. Her postdoctoral training at the Rockefeller University was under Professor Paul Greengard, a 2001 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Halpain served on the faculty at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center 1992-1996, then at The Scripps Research Institute 1996-2007...
Jacobs School of Engineering: Ahmed Elgamal
AHMED ELGAMAL is the Equity Advisor of the Jacobs School of Engineering, and Professor of Structural Engineering (SE) at UC San Diego (UCSD). He served as the SE Department Chair from 2003 to 2007. In 1984, he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He joined UCSD in 1997 as Professor after a post-doctoral appointment at the California Institute of Technology (1985-86), and faculty positions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1986-96) and Columbia University (1996-97)...
International Relations and Pacific Studies: Ulrike Schaede
ULRIKE SCHAEDE is Professor of Japanese Business at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS). Areas of expertise include Japan’s business strategy, regulation, governance and financial markets. Her current research projects concern...
Organized Research Units: Paul Yu
PAUL KIT LAI YU has been the Equity Advisor of the Jacobs School of Engineering (2007-2009), and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UC San Diego. He is presently the Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research Initiatives at UCSD. He continues to serve as the Faculty Equity Advising liaison for Organized Research Units at UCSD. He received his B.S. and M.S. in 1979 and Ph.D. in 1983, all from the California Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty of UC San Diego in 1983 and served as ECE Department Chair from 2003-2007...
Physical Sciences: Jeffrey Remmel
JEFFREY REMMEL is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at UC San Diego. He is the Associate Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences and he is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science. His current research interests are combinatorics, logic and theoretical computer science. He has published over 250 research papers and has edited 4 volumes. Dr. Remmel received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College...
Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Lihini Aluwihare
LIHINI ALUWIHARE is Associate Professor and the Faculty Equity Advisor for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. She received her B.S. in Chemistry and Philosophy in 1993 at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, and her Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography in 1999 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her research interests include chemical composition of organic matter and its cycling in the ocean. In 2005, she received the Geisel Faculty Career Development Award. She has participated widely in student outreach and field programs.
Social Sciences: Carol Padden
CAROL PADDEN is Professor of Communication at University of California, San Diego, and an affiliate member of the Center for Research in Language. Her main areas of research are sign language structure, culture and community and evolution of language. She is co-author with Tom Humphries of Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture (Harvard University Press, 1988), Inside Deaf Culture (Harvard University Press, 2005) and two sign language textbooks...
Rady School of Management: Sally Sadoff
SALLY SADOFF is Assistant Professor of Management & Strategy at the UCSD Rady School of Management. Her research focuses on field experiments in education and development. She is currently conducting research on closing educational achievement gaps through early childhood interventions, teacher merit pay, and performance-based incentives for students and parents. She is also conducting research on decision-making in poor households, including...
