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- Associate Professor Shauna M. Paradine, Chemistry<\/li>\r\n \t
- Associate Professor Thomas Weber, Earth and Environmental Sciences<\/li>\r\n \t
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- Associate Professor Will Miller, English<\/li>\r\n \t
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- Associate Professor Jens Kipper, Philosophy<\/li>\r\n \t
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- Professor Ed Lalor, Biomedical Engineering<\/li>\r\n \t
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\r\n \t- Matthew Ardizzone, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Marie Rolf Dean of Graduate Studies<\/i>*<\/li>\r\n \t
- Associate Professor Elizabeth Ogonek, Composition<\/li>\r\n \t
- Associate Professor Sangmi Kang, Music Teaching and Learning<\/li>\r\n \t
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- Associate Professor Isaac S. Harris, Co-Director, Biomedical Genetics and Genomics<\/li>\r\n \t
- Professor Douglas Portman, Co-Director, Biomedical Genetics and Genomics<\/li>\r\n \t
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- Professor Denise C. Hocking, Recruitment and Second-Year to Graduation Director, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology<\/li>\r\n \t
- Professor David Rich, Epidemiology<\/li>\r\n \t
- Professor Yue Li, Health Services Research and Policy<\/li>\r\n \t
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- Associate Professor Helene McMurray, Pathology<\/li>\r\n \t
- Assistant Professor Benjamin J. Frisch, Assistant Director, Pathology<\/li>\r\n \t
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- Marie Flannery, Director, PhD Program in Nursing and Health Science and Professor of Clinical Nursing<\/li>\r\n \t
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\r\n \t- Narayana Kocherlakota, Professor of Finance Louise and Henry Epstein Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean*<\/li>\r\n \t
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- Tina Sturgis, University Registrar (ex officio)<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t
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