Esther Viola Kurtz
Department of Music
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Jeffrey Kurtzman
Department of Music
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu
Department of History
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Department of Statistics and Data Science
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Department of Anthropology
Alan Lambert
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Mary E. Lambo
Department of Biology
Michael Landis
Department of Biology
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Department of Biology
Seanna Leath
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Silvia Ledesma Ortiz
Romance Languages and Literatures
Ji-Eun Lee
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Jiyoon Lee
East Asian Languages and Cultures
SangMok Lee
Department of Economics
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East Asian Languages and Cultures
Carole Lemire-Bowman
Department of Music
William Lenihan
Music
Rebecca Lester
Department of Anthropology
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Department of Economics
Petra Levin
Department of Biology
Diane Wei Lewis
Program in Film and Media Studies
Carter W. Lewis
Performing Arts Department
Yihao (Rayna) Li
Department of Art History and Archaeology
Recent Faculty Grants & Awards
Taylor Carlson, assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a Social Science Research Council Social Data Research Fellowship to study the extent to which user-generated content (i.e. comments) on social media platforms distorts information reported by mainstream news outlets. The fellowship comes with a $50,000 award.
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