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Department of Music

Philip Osdoby
Department of Biology

B. Duygu Özpolat
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Eloísa Palafox
Romance Languages and Literatures

Mikhail Palatnik
Global Studies

Rita Parai
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Eleanor Pardini
Environmental Studies

Nelson Pardiño
Romance Languages and Literatures

Shanti Parikh
Department of Anthropology

Sunita Parikh
Department of Political Science

Robert Parks
Department of Economics

John Parks
Environmental Studies

Timothy Parsons
Department of History

Anca Parvulescu
Department of English

Saori Pastore
Department of Physics

Gary Patti
Dean's Fellow for Advancement and Entrepreneurship

Amy Pawl
Department of English

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Rachel Penczykowski
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Department of Music

Dorothy Petersen
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Recent Faculty Grants & Awards
Kevin Moeller, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, recently received a nearly $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The award will support Moeller’s work with the collaborative Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry.
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