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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 Mathematics
Elena Dalla Torre
Romance Languages and Literatures
Talia Dan-Cohen
Department of Anthropology
Kelly Daniel-Decker
Department of Music
Bethany Daniels
Department of English
Nick Danis
Linguistics
Alfred Darnell
Department of Political Science
Saurav Das
Department of Physics
Joanna Dee Das
Performing Arts Department
Megan Daschbach
Department of Chemistry
Steve Davis
Department of Music
Kathryn Davis
Department of English
Niko Dawson
Department of Political Science
Tansu Daylan
Department of Physics
Maria de la Cruz
Department of Chemistry
Tomas de Oliveira
Department of Anthropology
Todd Decker
Department of Music
Mikky Deimeke
Department of Anthropology
Karen DeMatteo
Environmental Studies
Autumn Dennis
Department of Political Science
Nicolas Esteban Der Meguerditchian
Department of Economics
Bhupal Dev
Department of Physics
Julien Di Giovanni
Department of Anthropology
Francesco Di Plinio
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
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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