John Weeks
Distinguished Professor EmeritusCollege of Arts and LettersGeographySDSU[email protected]; [email protected]619-594-8040Area of Expertise
Population, census, spatial statistics and demographics.
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Population, census, spatial statistics and demographics.
Improving the quality of healthcare delivered to underserved populations; the development, implementation, and testing og patient navigation interventions to improve access to care related to cancer, HIV prevention, suicide prevention, and COVID-19 vaccination, among diverse and minoritized populations; mobile sensing technologies and data to understand medication-taking behaviors, predict individual risk factors, and deliver interventions to improve adherence that are needed by the individual at the optimal time, place, and in the optimal context; cancer disparities, cancer care, patient navigation, mobile sensing, medication adherence, HIV prevention, suicide prevention and COVID-19 vaccination.
Astronomy, astrophysics, planets, extrasolar planets, exoplanets, Kepler Mission and astrobiology.
Library management, acquisitions, and development of library collections. Information seeking behavior, online research behavior, student retention, student success and student persistence.
Disability history, institutionalization, eugenics, prison history, California history, speculative fiction, Octavia Butler, abolition and transformative justice.
Atheism, humanism, and secularism; pop culture and religion; new religious movements; hip hop studies and religious studies; African American theology and philosophy
American urban and social history
Brain imaging (functional MRI) research with children/adolescents who have social-emotional mental disorders (i.e., severe tantrums, depression, anxiety), MRI, anxiety, and depression in children.
health literacy, nursing, rural health, health care administration, nursing leadership, social determinants of health, rural health policy, rural-border health
Hospitality & tourism, hotel operations, meetings and events, restaurant operations, tribal gaming, holiday travel tips
screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT), a public health harm-reduction approach to reducing alcohol and drug use.
Historic preservation, architecture
K-12 School administration and leadership; Administration and leadership in ethnic studies; achievement gap discourses in education; community engagement and parental involvement in education; race, culture, and ethnicity in K-12 education; inequities and injustices in K-12 school policies, leadership, and education; K-12 school policy and history of school policies.
Molecular and nutritional epidemiology; individualized nutrition; precision medicine; red meat and dietary acid load; hypoxia; cancer survival; climate changes; aging-related disorders; health disparities between Asians and non-Asians; secondhand and past smoking, complementary and alternative medicine.
Storage systems, high-performance computing, energy-efficient storage systems, security-aware scheduling, cluster and Grid computing and parallel and distributed systems.
How global change affects terrestrial ecosystems and how terrestrial ecosystems feed back to the climate system by using a modeling approach. Global change, climate warming, soil and trace gas.
Catalysis, solar cells, renewable energy and pharmaceuticals.
Astronomy, green flash, atmospheric refraction and mirages.
metamaterials, design, mechanics of polymers, mechanics of composites, advanced manufacturing, impact, multiscale characterization, solid mechanics
Mathematics education, multilingual students, English learners and algebraic reasoning
Stem cells, tissue regeneration, and neurobiology.
Co-Faculty Director of the Microchemical Core Facility, member of the Molecular Biology Institute, the Coastal and Marine Institute, and the Center for Applied and Experimental Genomics.
Chinese, Chinese language structure (corpus linguistics, stylistic variation, writing system, dialects), language pedagogy and technology for language teaching.
Business operation, China business, entrepreneurship, international business
Intercultural communication, cross-cultural studies (China and the U.S.), international studies, international education
Native habitat restoration and water resources engineering.
climate change, Arctic, methane emissions, permafrost degradation