President Mildred García this week welcomed new members of the tenure-track faculty during Monday’s convocation and at a dinner held in their honor. The newly hired faculty members, all assistant professors except where noted, and their departments, by college, are:
College of Communications
COMMUNICATIONS — Penchan Phoborisut, Waleed Rashidi and Frank Russell
HUMAN COMMUNICATION STUDIES — Tara Suwinyattichaiporn
College of Engineering and Computer Science
COMPUTER ENGINEERING — Yua Bai, Rakeshkumar Mahto and Aaron Stillmaker
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING — Darren Banks and Yong-Seok Park
College of Education
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP — Rebecca Gutierrez Keeton, associate professor
ELEMENTARY AND BILINGUAL EDUCATION — Malia Hoffmann
SECONDARY EDUCATION — Alison Dover and Patrice Waller
College of Health and Human Development
CHILD AND ADOLESCENT STUDIES — Michelle Ramos and Sasha Zeedyk
HEALTH SCIENCE — Laura Chandler, Wuraola Jacobs and Alice Lee
HUMAN SERVICES — Adrian Rodriguez
KINESIOLOGY — Do Kyeong Lee and Robert Lockie
NURSING — Raymond “Austin” Nation
SOCIAL WORK — Michelle Martin
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
HISTORY — Aitana Guia and Anelise Shrout
MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES — Linh Khanh Nguyen
POLITICS, ADMINISTRATION AND JUSTICE — David Adams and David Traven, political science; Veronica Herrera, criminal justice
PSYCHOLOGY — Lucia Alcala and Aaron Lukaszweski
SOCIOLOGY — Mariam Ashtiani and LaTosha Traylor
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY — Michael Groves, Andrew Petit and Sachel Villafañe-Garcia
GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES — Sinan Akciz
MATHEMATICS — Derdei Bichara and Nicholas Brubaker
PHYSICS — Wylie Ahmed
Mihaylo College of Business and Economics
ACCOUNTING — Anthony Chen, Matthew Driskill and Yuanyuan Ma, assistant professors; and Jie Zhou, associate professor
ECONOMICS — Jen-Wen Chang and Samuel Flanders
FINANCE — Lingxiao Li, Brian Roseman and Erdem Ucar, assistant professors; David Nanigian, associate professor
INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DECISION SCIENCES — Yingfei Kong and Ting Luo
MANAGEMENT — Min Choi, Shadi Goodarzi, Jungmin Seo and Chethan Srikant
Pollak Library
Samuel Barber, senior assistant librarian (began May 2)
Mark Bilby, senior assistant librarian (began Aug. 15)
Robert Tomaszewski, associate librarian (began Jan. 11)