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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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Arts & Sciences Computing
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Helina Woldekiros
Department of Anthropology
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Ember Wolf
Department of Anthropology
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Liz Wolfson
Program in Public Scholarship
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Claire Workinger
Department of Music
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Ben Wormleighton
Transdisciplinary Institute in Applied Data Sciences
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Mark S. Wrighton
Department of Chemistry
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Emily Wroblewski
Department of Anthropology
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Bort Wu
Department of Political Science
Kiara Wyndham-Douds
Department of Sociology
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Peter Wyse Jackson
Department of Biology
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Michael E. Wysession
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
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Steven Xiao
Department of Statistics and Data Science
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Yifan (Frank) Xu
Department of Political Science
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Li Yang
Department of Physics
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Shirl Yang
The Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
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Mano Yasuda
East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Iva Youkilis
Romance Languages and Literatures
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Yan Yu
Department of Chemistry
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Hongyu Yu
Department of Political Science
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Yajie Yuan
Department of Physics
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Hangyu Yuan
Department of Economics
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Hayrettin Yücesoy
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
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Jeffrey Zacks
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Recent Faculty Grants & Awards
Kevin Moeller, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, recently received a nearly $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The award will support Moeller’s work with the collaborative Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry.
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