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Romance Languages and Literatures
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David Cunningham
Department of Sociology
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Julio M. D'Arcy
Department of Chemistry
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Aliakbar Daemi
Department of Mathematics
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Elena Dalla Torre
Romance Languages and Literatures
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Talia Dan-Cohen
Department of Anthropology
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Kelly Daniel-Decker
Department of Music
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Bethany Daniels
Department of English
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Nick Danis
Linguistics
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Alfred Darnell
Department of Political Science
Joanna Dee Das
Performing Arts Department
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Saurav Das
Department of Physics
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Megan Daschbach
Department of Chemistry
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Kathryn Davis
Department of English
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Steve Davis
Department of Music
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Niko Dawson
Department of Political Science
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Tansu Daylan
Department of Physics
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Maria de la Cruz
Department of Chemistry
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Tomas de Oliveira
Department of Anthropology
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Todd Decker
Department of Music
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Mikky Deimeke
Department of Anthropology
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Karen DeMatteo
Environmental Studies
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Autumn Dennis
Department of Political Science
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Nicolas Esteban Der Meguerditchian
Department of Economics
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.
See what our faculty are working on now
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Reichhardt wins NIH MIRA award
The award for early-career researchers will support research on the proteins that enable bacterial infections.