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Campus Welcomes New Class of Tenure-Track Faculty Members

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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)