Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Engineering: Chemical Engineering College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology

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James Allison

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Small-scale societies of the southwest
- Quantitative Methods
- Ceramic Analysis
- Archaeological Theory

Morris Argyle

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-H EB

Research Interests:
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Energy

Jaime Bartlett

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
870 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropology
- Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
- Archaeology

Larry Baxter

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-U EB

Research Interests:
- Fuel impurities during combustion
- Carbon Capture
- Biomass
- Coal
- Natural Gas

Bradley Bundy

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-N EB

Research Interests:
- Biocatalysis Immobilization
- Unnatural Amino Acids
- Virus-like Particles
- Cell-Free Synthetic Biology
- Cell-free Protein Synthesis
- Biotechnology; Biosensors
- Cancer Research; Therapy/Therapeutics
- Vaccine Production

Zachary Chase

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Andes

John E. Clark

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
876 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

David Crandall

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- African Folktales
- Himba Flora Taxonomy and Herbal Medicines
- Africa
- Human Moral Knowledge

Cynthia S. Finlayson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Archaeological excavation
- Cultural heritage site development
- Syria and Jordan

Thomas Fletcher

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-Q EB

Research Interests:
- Combustion
- Coal
- Biomass
- Wildland Fires
- Gasification

Andrew Fry

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-J EB

Research Interests:
- Power Plants
- Energy Engineering
- Power Generation
- Power Production

Clint G. Guymon

College: College of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-D EB

John Harb

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-V EB

Research Interests:
- Electrochemical Engineering
- Batteries
- Electrodeposition
- Corrosion
- Fuel Cells
- Energy storage and conversion devices

John Hedengren

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-L EB

Research Interests:
- Energy Systems
- Machine Learning
- Drilling Automation
- Nonlinear Optimization
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Data Science
- Cybersecurity

Jacob R. Hickman

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
860 KMBL

Research Interests;
- How the processes of migration, displacement, and diaspora affect a host of cultural and psychological phenomena
- Transnational ethnographic fieldwork with Hmong communities in both southeast Asia and the west
- Religion, ritual practice, family life, moral thinking, and personhood
- Religious dynamics that are emerging in the Hmong diaspora, which include messianic movements, new forms of transnational ritual networks, and changing religious ideologies and practices
- Comparative fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, the United States, and other areas where the Hmong have resettled

David J. Johnson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
892 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Cultures associated with the Red Sea area and their involvement in long distance trade from the earliest period through the Islamic Period
- Effects of long distance trade contacts on religious ideology and social organization

Thomas Knotts

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-O EB

Research Interests:
- Proteins
- Protein folding
- Protein-protein Interaction
- Thermodynamics
- Protein Biophysics
- Protein Stability
- Protein Engineering
- Enzymes
- Protein Structure
- Protein Binding
- DNA Hybridization
- Molecular Modeling of High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

Randy Lewis

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-S EB

Research Interests:
- Chemical Engineering
- Bioengineering
- Humanitarian Engineering
- Reaction Kinetics

David Lignell

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-P EB

Research Interests:
- Combustion
- Simulation
- One Dimensional Turbulence (ODT)
- Soot formation
- Flame extinction and Reignition

Matthew Memmott

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-K EB

Research Interests:
- Nuclear Reactor Technology
- Nuclear Science
- Reactor Design
- Nuclear Safety

Stella Nickerson

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-M EB

Research Interests:
- Molten Salt Reactors
- Nuclear Reactor Technology
- Molecular Simulations
- Density Function Theory

Charles W. Nuckolls

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropological studies of causal thinking and explanation in India
- Nationalism in Japan
- Psychiatric classification and diagnosis in the U.S. and New Zealand.

William Pitt

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-W EB

Research Interests:
- Drug Delivery
- Biomaterials

Devin Rappleye

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-B EB

Research Interests:
- Molten Salts
- Electrochemistry
- Pyrochemistry
- Metallurgy
- Energy

Michael T. Searcy

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Social processes associated with the Viejo (AD 700-1200) and Medio Periods (AD 1200-1450) of the Casas Grandes tradition, which flourished in the northwestern portion of modern-day Chihuahua, Mexico
- Causes linked to transitions in sociopolitical organization and structural transformations
- Long-distance interaction
- Iconographical analysis
- Ground stone analysis
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Fremont archaeology

Dongjin Seo

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-C EB

Research Interests:
- Atomic Force Microscopy
- Surface Modification
- Wetting Phenomena
- Tribology
- Reaction Kinetics

Gregory Thompson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
880 KMBL

Research Interests:
- The intersection of anthropology, language, education, and communication with a broad focus on the mediating role of cultural contexts in human interaction
- Discourse analytic methods drawn from linguistic anthropology
- Micro-cultural contexts
- Motivation and engagement
- Psychological anthropology
- How education and learning are accomplished in actual teaching/learning interactions
- American cultural contexts
- African-American settings
- American cultural meanings of race and class

Douglas Tree

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-D EB

Research Interests:
- Soft Matter
- Polymer Physics
- Complex Fluids
- Biopolymers
- Statistical Mechanics

Dean Wheeler

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
330-T EB

Research Interests:
- Lithium-ion Batteries
- Computer Simulations of Materials
- Electrochemical Engineering
- Composite Materials
- Optimization

W. Vincent Wilding

College: Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
240-H EB

Research Interests:
- Thermodynamics
- Process Design
- Process Safety
- Environmental Engineering