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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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Soumendra Lahiri
Alan Lambert
Mary E. Lambo
Michael Landis
Allan Larson
Seanna Leath
Silvia Ledesma Ortiz
Ji-Eun Lee
SangMok Lee
Jiyoon Lee
Carole Lemire-Bowman
William Lenihan
Rebecca Lester
Oksana Leukhina
Petra Levin
Diane Wei Lewis
Yihao (Rayna) Li
Wanlin Li
Huiyun Liang
Xia Liang
Maggie Limbeck
Jan-Li Lin
Nan Lin
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Katharina Lodders
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Richard Loomis
Jonathan Losos
Suzanne Loui
Frank Lovett
Jue Lu
Christopher Lucas
Kenneth Ludmerer
Zakiya Luna
Robert Lunde
Jia Luo
Bryn Lutes
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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