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. Read more about her project, “Leveraging User-Generated Social Media Content to Understand Misinformation in American Politics.”
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Brad Warner, professor of pediatric surgery, 66
Julian Fleischman, associate professor emeritus, 91
William D. Owens, MD, professor emeritus of anesthesiology, 85