Faculty

The annual Regents’ Diversity Awards recognizes individuals and programs that foster access and success for historically underrepresented populations. Among the 2023 recipients is professor Lori Kido Lopez, whose research and teaching focus on ways disenfranchised communities use media to promote empowerment and social justice.

Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau (computer sciences) and Kyoung-Shin Choi (chemistry) elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Six L&S faculty members have been chosen to receive 2023 Distinguished Teaching Awards.

Professor of Economics Menzie Chinn studies that slipperiest of subjects: Inflation.

Simon Balto’s research helps us unlearn the narratives of modern policing.

In Juan Egea’s classes there are no glazed eyes, bored whispers or furtive Snapchatting. The popular professor of Spanish and Portuguese captures attention and holds it by using humor, vivid imagery and even a bit of role-playing. “I know when they’re with me,” Egea declares. “I can feel it.”

New group takes aim at an insidious problem on campus.

Event honoring the life of Bill Kraus fosters meaningful conversations about compromise in politics.

Anthropology colleagues are working with tribes to return the remains of ancestors and sacred objects.