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Twenty Faculty Resign or Retire During the Year
Some familiar faces will be absent from the faculty next fall. Nine tenured or tenure-track faculty are resigning or retiring effective over the summer, and 11 more left earlier in the year. Four professors, Robert Sleigh of Philosophy, Melvin Janowitz of Mathematics and Statistics, William Mullin of Physics and Ernest Dzendolet of Psychology are retiring. Sleigh specializes in Early Modern philosophy, particularly that of G.W. Leibniz. He lectured on Leibniz as part of the Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series last fall. Dzendolet researches sensation and perception, and Mullin studies quantum fluids and solids. Janowitz' areas of interest include ordinal and graph theoretical models for cluster analysis and consensus theory, and Boolean product representations of ordered sets. Faculty who retired earlier in the year include Peter Manning of Hotel, Restaurant and Travel Administration, Atron Gentry of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies, Robert Kirchhoff and George Zinsmeister of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Leonard Bobrow of Electrical and Computer Engineering, William Johnston of History, Richard Trousdell of Theater, Marion Rhodes of Chemistry, and William MacKnight, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering. Professor Anne Simon has resigned from Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to join the faculty at the University of Maryland. Simon, who studies the turnip crinkle virus, is known for her book, "The Real Science Behind the X-Files." Associate professor Nancy Potischman has resigned from Biostatistics and Epidemiology to join her husband in Washington, D.C., where she hopes to continue her research in nutritional epidemiology. Assistant professors Rajiv Kashyap of Hotel, Restaurant and Travel Administration and Maria Gonzales of Communication Disorders are taking positions at other institutions. Kashyap will be an assistant professor in the department of management and marketing at Indiana University/Purdue University at Fort Wayne, where he will continue to study marketing strategy, services management and consumer choice modeling. Gonzales will be an assistant professor of communication disorders at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. She studies bilingualism and literacy among children. Associate professor Kenneth Corey of Plant and Soil Sciences, is taking a research position at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., where he will work on Mars inflatable green houses, part of the advanced life support program. Earlier in the year, assistant professor of Geosciences Emily CoBabe resigned, as did associate professor of Polymer Science and Engineering Klaus Schmidt-Rohr. Schmidt-Rohr now teaches as an associate professor in the chemistry department at Iowa State University in Ames. |
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