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Stephen H. Weiss Provost's Teaching Fellow, Director of the Investigative Biology Teaching Laboratories

Mark A. Sarvary lectures in biology and science communication at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. His research focuses on evidence-based teaching practices and student-centered pedagogical methods in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

IES Graduate Fellow 2026-27

Greta Schenke is a fourth-year PhD student in Comparative Politics in the Department of Government. Her research examines the political economy of state-building, nationalism, and democratic representation, combining historical and contemporary perspectives.

Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning
Stephan Schmidt's research interests concern land-use policy, patterns, and processes.
Graduate Student, IES Graduate Fellow 2025-26

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2028

Committee Chair/Advisor: Andrea Won, Natalie Bazarova

Discipline: Communication

IES Graduate Fellow 2024-2025

Priyanka Sen is a Ph.D. candidate in the HAUD program.

Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science

Suman Seth works on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of science and medicine. His interests include the history of medicine, race, and colonialism, the physical sciences (particularly quantum theory), & gender and science.

Associate Professor, German Studies

Elke Siegel's research is in German literature from 1900 to the present, literary theory, and psychoanalysis.

IES Graduate Fellow 2025-2026

Nora Siena's dissertation, “Inoperative Brevitas: The Contamination of Short Literary and Philosophical Forms and the Twentieth-century Italian Racconto,” identifies a paradigmatic mode of twentieth-century European poeti

Professor of Practice, Systems Engineering

Semida Silveira is a Professor of Practice in the Systems Engineering Program and a member of the CEET Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition.

Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology

The central preoccupation of Adam Smith's research and writing is the role that the material world—everyday objects, representational media, natural and built landscapes—plays in our political lives.