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select honors from our faculty

9 Elected Members of the National Academy of Sciences
18 Guggenheim Fellowship recipients
18 elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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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Krawczynski installed as Wilfred R. and Ann Lee Konneker Distinguished Professor of Physics

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Roger Michaelides wins NASA fellowship for early-career researchers

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