Joel Vanderheyden
Department of Music
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Froggi VanRiper
Environmental Studies
Vincent Varvel
Department of Music
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Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Grace Waitman
College Writing Program
Elise Walck-Shannon
Department of Biology
Julia A. Walker
Department of English
Anika Walke
Department of History
William Wallace
Department of Art History and Archaeology
Dave Walsh
American Culture Studies
Jennifer Wang
Department of Biology
Xi Wang
Department of Physics
Alian Wang
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Ping Wang
Department of Economics
Jingyi Wang
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit
Department of Music
Kun Wang
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Wei Wang
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Rebecca Wanzo
Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Geoff Ward
Department of African & African American Studies
David Warren
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Aileen Waters
College Writing Program
Lori Watson
The Department of Philosophy
Lori Watt
Department of History
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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