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Bryce Sadtler
Chemistry
Kaho Sakaue
Luis Alejandro Salas
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Jessica Samuel
Ignacio Sánchez Prado
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Michael Sanders
Fernando Sanjenís Gutiérrez
Crickette Sanz
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Christine Sasse
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Nick Savage
Sean Savoie
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Paolo Scartoni
Ariela Schachter
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Karl Schaefer
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Leigh E. Schmidt
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Keith Schnakenberg
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Nancy Schnurr
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Lyndsie Schultz
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Henry Schvey
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Rebecca Sears
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Stephanie N. Shady
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Toqeer Shah
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John Shareshian
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Ila Sheren
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Vincent Sherry
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Yongseok Shin
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Julie Singer
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Philip Skemer
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Elzbieta Sklodowska
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Cecil Slaughter
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Richard Smith
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William Smith
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Robert Snarrenberg
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Andrew Sobel
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Lee Sobotka
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Slava Solomatov
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Rose Sommerhauser
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Claire Sommers
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Yanli Song
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Christopher Stark
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Ari Stern
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Gaylyn Studlar
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Ayuka Suemasa
Jessie Sun
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Qingyi Sun
Nicole Svobodny
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Claudia Swan
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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