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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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Isaacowitz wins mid-career award from the Society for Affective Science
The professor of psychological and brain sciences was honored for his work on aging, attention, and emotion.
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Returning to his roots: Joe Guinness, AB ’07, helps grow a new department
The WashU alumnus shares his path back to campus and his big plans for helping enhance the Department of Statistics and Data Science.