Our people are extraordinary.
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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Soumendra Lahiri
Alan Lambert
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Mary E. Lambo
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Michael Landis
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Allan Larson
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Seanna Leath
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Silvia Ledesma Ortiz
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Ji-Eun Lee
East Asian Languages and Cultures
SangMok Lee
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Jiyoon Lee
Carole Lemire-Bowman
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William Lenihan
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Rebecca Lester
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Oksana Leukhina
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Petra Levin
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Diane Wei Lewis
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Wanlin Li
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Yihao (Rayna) Li
Huiyun Liang
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Xia Liang
Maggie Limbeck
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Nan Lin
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Xinyi Liu
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Regina Loehr
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Jen Logan Meyer
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Kyle Lombard
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Robert Lunde
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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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