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The Department of Philosophy
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Timothy Wencewicz
Department of Chemistry
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Department of Anthropology
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Department of Biology
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Department of English
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Department of Chemistry
William Whitaker
Performing Arts Department
Brett Wick
Dean's Fellow for Digital Transformation
Mladen Wickerhauser
Department of Mathematics
Douglas A. Wiens
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
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Psychological & Brain Sciences
Anna Wilke
Department of Political Science
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Department of Biology
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Department of Political Science
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K. Eliza Williamson
Latin American Studies
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Kathryn Wilson
Department of Classics
Elisabeth Windle
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Adia Harvey Wingfield
Vice Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity
Helina Woldekiros
Department of Anthropology
Liz Wolfson
Program in Public Scholarship
Claire Workinger
Department of Music
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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