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Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Genomics, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Microbiology, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Hydrogeology, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee
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Professor and Department Head, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Practice and Julia G. and Alfred G. Hill Chair of Excellence in Science, Technology, and Medical Writing, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee; Smithsonian Institution
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Research Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee
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Derek H. Alderman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chancellor's Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Arabic, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor Department of Geography & Sustainability, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee
