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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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Department of Music

Zoltán Váci
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Miguel Valerio
Romance Languages and Literatures

Mark Valeri
Religious Studies

Marc-Anthony Valle
Department of English

Kristin Van Engen
Psychological & Brain Sciences

Abram Van Engen
Department of English

Guillaume Vandenbroucke
Department of Economics
Joel Vanderheyden
Department of Music

Froggi VanRiper
Environmental Studies

Vincent Varvel
Department of Music

Fiona Vaughn
Department of Statistics and Data Science

Lauris Veips
Comparative Literature

Madhavi Verma
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies

Abhay Vidwans
Department of Physics

Richard Vierstra
Department of Biology
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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Award-winning poet Eduardo C. Corral to join WashU in 2024
Celebrated poet Eduardo C. Corral will join WashU’s Department of English next fall, adding to the MFA Program’s roster of award-winning faculty.