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Arts & Sciences has over 1,000 faculty and staff who utilize their diverse expertise in the pursuit of research breakthroughs, gaining a deeper understanding of the world's most pressing issues and serving as mentors of the next generation.
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Silvia Ledesma Ortiz
Romance Languages and Literatures
Ji-Eun Lee
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Diane Wei Lewis
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Huiyun Liang
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Joe Loewenstein
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Jen Logan Meyer
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Kyle Lombard
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Kenneth Ludmerer
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Germanic Languages and LiteraturesMax Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature
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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