Feng Sheng Hu
Richard G. Engelsmann Dean of Arts & Sciences
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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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Holly Huelskamp
Department of Music
Elizabeth Hunter
Performing Arts Department
Brett Hyde
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Department of Physics
Pascal Ifri
Romance Languages and Literatures
Dustin Iler
College Writing Program
John D. Inazu
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Ignacio Infante
Romance Languages and Literatures
Patrick Ishizuka
Department of Sociology
Martin H. Israel
Department of Physics
Silvian Iticovici
Department of Music
Candice Ivory
Department of Music
Meredith Jackrel
Department of Chemistry
Joshua Jackson
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Martin Jacobs
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Abigail Jager
Department of Statistics and Data Science
Meera Jain
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Sara Jay
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Carol Jenkins
Comparative Literature and Thought
Lance Jenott
Department of Classics
Joseph Jez
Department of Biology
Sarah Johnson
Department of Music
Silas Johnson
Department of Mathematics
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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