UConn Celebrates Promotion and Tenure of 91 Faculty

Evaluations for promotion, tenure, and reappointment apply the highest standards of professional achievement in scholarship, teaching, and service for each faculty member evaluated

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The University of Connecticut Office of the Provost is pleased to announce the award of promotion and/or tenure to 91 faculty across its multiple campuses.

Evaluations for promotion, tenure, and reappointment apply the highest standards of professional achievement in scholarship, teaching, and service for each faculty member evaluated. Applications for promotion and tenure are reviewed at the department level, school or college level, and finally at the Office of the Provost before recommendations are forwarded to the Board of Trustees.

This process involves significant work on the part of each faculty member, as well as assistance and support of colleagues and administrative staff who provide guidance and manage many of the logistics through each stage of the promotion and tenure cycle. It is a notable milestone for each faculty member awarded these promotions, as well as for their colleagues.

The listing of faculty promoted and/or granted tenure is listed below, organized by school, college, or other academic unit. Please join us in congratulating our colleagues on this momentous occasion.

 

Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources

 

Promotion To Professor

Jason Henderson, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture

Elaine Lee, Kinesiology

Charles Towe, Agriculture and Resource Economics

 

Promotion To Associate Professor

Neha Mishra, Pathobiology and Veterinary Sciences

 

Promotion To Associate Professor And Tenure

Sohyun Park, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture

Haiying Tao, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture

 

Promotion To Associate Professor In-Residence

Maryclaire Capetta, Kinesiology

Eleni Diakogeorgiou, Kinesiology

 

Promotion To Extension Professor

Thomas Worthley, Extension

 

Promotion To Associate Cooperative Extension Educator

Shuresh Ghimire, Extension

 

Business

 

Promotion To Professor

Resul Cesur, Finance

Vishal Narayan, Marketing

 

Promotion To Associate Professor And Tenure

Stefan Hock, Marketing

Chrstina Kan, Marketing

Tao Lu, Operations and Information Management

 

Promotion To Associate Professor In-Residence

Alexander Amati, Finance

 

Engineering

 

Promotion To Professor

Ali Bazzi, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Kay Wille, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Liang Zhang, Electrical & Computer Engineering

 

Promotion To Associate Professor And Tenure

Derek Aguiar, Computing

Necmi Biyikli, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Kristin Morgan, Biomedical Engineering

Sina Shahbazmohamadi, Biomedical Engineering

Xueju Wang, Materials Science & Engineering

Yuanyuan Zhu, Materials Science & Engineering

Yi Zhang, Biomedical Engineering

 

Tenure As Associate Professor

Shalabh Gupta, Electrical & Computer Engineering

 

Promotion To Professor In-Residence

Reza Sheikhi, Mechanical, Aerospace & Manufacturing Engineering

 

Fine Arts 

 

Promotion to Professor           
Solomiya Ivakhiv, Music

 

Promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure 

Jennifer Scapetis-Tycer, Dramatic Arts

Sophie Shao, Music

Alexander Woodward, Dramatic Arts

 

Law

 

Promotion To Professor And Tenure

Jessica De Perio Wittman

 

Promotion To Clinical Professor

Mary Beattie

 

Promotion To Associate Clinical Professor

Ashley Armstrong

Rachel Reeves

Rachel Timm

 

Liberal Arts and Sciences

 

Promotion To Professor          

David Embrick, Sociology

Delia Furtado, Economics

Debarchana Ghosh, Geography

Julie Granger, Marine Sciences

Jason Hancock, Physics

Jie He, Chemistry

Nicholas Leadbeater, Chemistry

Marcus Rossberg, Philosophy

Beth Russell, Human Dev And Family Sciences

Michael Whitney, Marine Sciences

Sarah Willen, Anthropology

Yaowu Yuan, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Jing Zhao, Chemistry

           

Promotion To Associate Professor And Tenure

Dexter Gabriel, History

Aoife Heaslip, Molecular And Cell Biology

Sean Li, Mathematics

Daniel McCarron, Physics

Linnaea Ostroff, Physiology And Neurobiology

Alexandra Paxton, Psychological Sciences

Evan Perkoski, Political Science

Debapriya Sarkar, English

Ilya Sochnikov, Physics

Clay Tabor, Earth Sciences

Tracy Llanera, Philosophy

Xiang Chen, Geography

           

Tenure As Associate Professor         

Scott Wallace, Journalism

           

Promotion To Professor In-Residence     

Lisa Blansett, English

Michael Finiguerra, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Susan Herrick, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Sherry Zane, Women’s Gender And Sexuality Studies

           

Promotion To Associate Professor In-Residence

Jessica Dafhne Aguirre, Chemistry

Anne Basaran, Communication

Tianxu Chen, Economics

Sarah Decapua, English

Jeffrey Divino, Physiology And Neurobiology

Vindya Pathirana, Mathematics

           

Promotion To Clinical Professor     

Nicole Gallagher, Speech, Language, And Hearing Sciences

           

Promotion To Associate Clinical Professor

Kacie Wittke, Speech, Language, And Hearing Sciences

 

Promotion To Associate Research Professor     

Jamie Vaudrey, Marine Sciences

 

Library

 

Promotion To Librarian 2
Thomas Lee, Academic Engagement

 

Promotion To Librarian 3
Roslyn Grandy, Academic Engagement
Edward Junhao Lim, Academic Engagement
Renee Walsh, Academic Engagement

Neag School of Education

 

Promotion to Professor

Alyssa Hadley Dunn, Curriculum and Instruction

Devin Kearns, Educational Psychology

Allison Lombardi, Educational Psychology

Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead, Educational Psychology

Jennie Weiner, Educational Leadership

 

Promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure   

Grace Player, Curriculum and Instruction

Nursing 

 

Promotion To Associate Professor and Tenure

Louise Reagan

 

Promotion to Associate Clinical Professor

Valarie Artigas

Denise Bourassa

 

Social Work

 

Promotion to Professor

Kathryn Libal