The annual Fall Convocation Awards and Presentations Celebrating Faculty Achievements on Oct. 13, 2022, honored 95 faculty members for their excellence in teaching, scholarship, leadership and service. Faculty recently tenured or promoted听and faculty receiving the Provost's Achievement Award were recognized.
Vice Provost Michele Moses and the Office of Faculty Affairs hosted this annual awards ceremony, in coordination with Chancellor Philip DiStefano and Provost Russell Moore, who opened the event with welcoming remarks.
Below is a list of this year's awardees.
Provost鈥檚 Faculty Achievement Awards
Pre-tenure faculty
Eleanor Browne, Chemistry, for her paper听鈥淓ffect of heterogeneous oxidative aging on light absorption by biomass-burning organic aerosol鈥澨齛nd accompanying short video
Sherri Cook, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering,听for her article听鈥淒rivers of sustained sanitation access: social network and demographic predictors of latrine reconstruction after flooding disasters鈥�
Rafael Frongillo,听Computer Science,听for his article听鈥淓licitation complexity of statistical properties鈥�
Adam Holewinski,听Chemical and Biological Engineering,听for his article听鈥淪elective Interactions between Free-Atom-like d-States in Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts and Near-Frontier Molecular Orbitals鈥�
Edward Vincent Taylor,听Education, for his co-authored chapter听鈥淢ultiple Ways of Knowing: Re-Imagining Disciplinary Learning鈥� in the Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning
Post-tenure faculty
Mimi Engel,听Education,听for her project on fostering important academic, social, emotional, language听and self-regulatory skills among all students, resulting in the journal article听鈥淜indergarten in a Large Urban District鈥�
Philip Fernbach,听Business, for his series of papers representing a program of research on knowledge overconfidence, extremism and the community of knowledge.
Paul Romatschke,听Physics, for his body of work on the subject of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics and co-authored book Relativistic Fluid Dynamics In and Out of Equilibrium: And Applications to Relativistic Nuclear Collision
Douglas Spencer,听Law,听for his project on voting rights and redistricting, resulting in the law review article听鈥淢odels, Race, and the Law鈥�
Julia Staffel, Philosophy, for her three articles for a new project in epistemology that challenges established theories about the nature of human reasoning
Faculty receiving tenure
- Chunmei Ban, Mechanical Engineering
- Agne虁s Beaudry, Mathematics
- Samuel L. Boyd, Religious Studies
- Melissa L. Braaten, Education
- Jed Brown, Computer Science
- Jed R. Brubaker, Information Science
- Lijun Chen, Computer Science
- Joe虉lle M. Cruz, Communication
- Zoe R. Donaldson, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology & Psychology and Neuroscience
- John Andrew Evans, Aerospace Engineering Sciences
- Casey Fiesler, Information Science
- Ian Grooms, Applied Mathematics
- Eve-Lyn S. Hinckley, Environmental Studies
- Mija H. Hubler, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
- Bethy Leonardi, Education
- Benjamin Levin, Law
- Ben Livneh, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
- Henry B. Lovejoy, History
- Ann-Marie Madigan, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
- Robert A. Marshall, Aerospace Engineering Sciences
- Tomoko Matsuo, Aerospace Engineering Sciences
- Samira K. Mehta, Women and Gender Studies
- Irina Overeem, Geological Sciences
- Dennis V. Perepelitsa, Physics
- Andrew Q. Philips, Political Science
- David Requiro, Music
- Nancy Rodri虂guez, Applied Mathematics
- Erin E. Schauster, Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design
- Julio C. Sepu虂lveda, Geological Sciences
- Sandeep Sharma, Chemistry
- Scott Skinner-Thompson, Law
- Joel Swanson, Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society
- Scott A. Taylor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Brian Valente-Quinn, French & Italian
- Stephen Voida, Information Science
- Philip Bradley White, University Libraries
- Majid Zamani, Computer Science
Faculty promoted to full professor
- Alaa A. Ahmed, Mechanical Engineering
- Joanna Arch, Psychology and Neuroscience
- Tiffany R. Beechy, English
- Loriliai Biernacki, Religious Studies
- Carew Elizabeth Boulding, Political Science
- Sebastian Casalaina-Martin, Mathematics
- Aaron Clauset, Computer Science
- Justin Desautels-Stein, Law
- Scot Douglass, Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society
- Robin Dowell-Deen, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
- Joel Eaves, Chemistry
- Marissa A. Ehringer, Integrative Physiology
- Katja Friedrich, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Harsha Gangadharbatla, Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design
- Ryan Gardner, Music
- Leila G贸mez, Women and Gender Studies
- Jean Hertzberg, Mechanical Engineering
- Deborah R. Hollis, University Libraries
- Chris Long, University Libraries
- Kevin Mahan, Geological Sciences
- Christy McCain, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Merinda McLure, University Libraries
- Bhuvaneswari Narasimhan, Linguistics
- Erika Randall, Theatre and Dance
- Dmitry Reznik, Physics
- John-Michael Rivera, English
- Paul Romatschke, Physics
- Wilson Smith, Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Michael Stowell, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
- Evan Thomas, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
- Edward Van Wesep, Business
- Clare Wang, Business
- Jeffrey York, Business
- Phoebe S. K. Young, History
Faculty hired with tenure
- Alixandra Barasch, Business
- Joseph J. Berry, Physics
- Amit Bhattacharjee, Business
- Jason A. Burdick, Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Luca Corradini, Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
- Scott A. Diddams, Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
- Dejun 鈥淭ony鈥澨齂ong, Business
- Glen S. Krutz, Political Science
- S. N. Nyeck, Ethnic Studies
- Omedi Ochieng, Communication
- Michael Pappas, Law
- Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, History
- Christophe Spaenjers, Business
- Nathalie M. Vriend, Mechanical Engineering
