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Matthew J. Côté

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Bonney Science Center, Room 387

mcote@bates.edu | 207-786-6297

electronic structure of solids, interaction of light and matter, microscopy, nanotechnology, physical chemistry, plasmonics, spectroscopy

Ryan K. Cole

Assistant Professor of Physics

Carnegie Science Hall, Room 327

rcole@bates.edu | 207-753-6909

Laser Absorption Spectroscopy, Molecular Spectroscopy, Optical Frequency Combs, Optical Frequency Measurements, Optical Sensing, Trace Gas Sensing

Andy E. Ricci

Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies

Pettengill Hall,

aricci@bates.edu | 207-755-5906

Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Robotics

Mara C. Tieken

Associate Professor of Education

Pettengill Hall, Room 304

mtieken@bates.edu | 207-786-6064

college access and persistence, community and parent engagement, community organizing, education organizing, education reform, educational equity, higher education, portraiture, race and class in rural communities, rural communities and schools, rural education

Amy Bradfield Douglass

Whitehouse Professor of Psychology

Pettengill Hall, Room 372

adouglas@bates.edu | 207-786-6182

eyewitness testimony, interviewing eyewitness, jury decision-making, memory, social influence, social psychology

Daniel Slane

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

Carnegie Science Hall, Room 414

dslane@bates.edu | 207-786-6077

cell biology, chromatin dynamics, developmental biology, embryogenesis, genetics, microscopy, molecular biology, next-generation sequencing, plant physiology, stress memory

Zen T. Kuriyama

Assistant Professor of Music

Olin Arts Center, Room 258

zkuriyama@bates.edu | 207-786-6418

choral music, classical voice, conducting, English musical nationalism, Gerald Finzi, historical musicology, Jewishness and antisemitism in nineteenth and twentieth-century European musical culture, music theory, performance studies, sacred music

Nathan E. Lundblad

Professor of Physics

Carnegie Science Hall, Room 322

nlundbla@bates.edu | 207-786-6321

Bose-Einstein condensation, evaporative cooling, laser cooling, magnetic trapping, optical lattices, optical trapping, quantum physics, radiofrequency and microwave dressing, solid-state analogues, spin-dependent potentials, ultracold atomic physics

Janice R. Levi

Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 111

jlevi@bates.edu | 207-753-6985

African History, Africana Studies, Ethnicity and Race Studies, Historical Transmission, Jewish History, memory studies, Migration Studies, Religious Studies

Todd A. Kahan

Professor of Psychology

Pettengill Hall, Room 367

tkahan@bates.edu | 207-786-6180

attention, cognitive psychology, human memory, psycholinguistics, psychological models of word reading, visual perception