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21 new faculty added to teaching ranks by Daniel J. Fitzgibbons, Chronicle staff 
he start of the fall semester next week will also mark the arrival of 21 new faculty members, including 18 tenure-track appointees, two tenured professors and a tenured associate professor. The appointments span 17 departments across campus, according to the Provost's Office. Among the nine schools and colleges, seven have hired new faculty. The largest group is coming on board at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (CNSM), with nine tenure-track hires. The College of Engineering is welcoming five new faculty, followed by two each in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts (CHFA) and the School of Education. The School of Nursing, Isenberg School of Management and College of Food and Natural Resources (CFNR) each have hired one new faculty member. The tenured appointments are Soren Bisgaard, professor of Operations Management and Isen- berg Professor of Integrative Studies; Dimitrios Maroudas, professor of Chemical Engineering and Michael Henson, associate professor of Chemical Engineering. Also in the College of Engineering, Robert Hyers and Erin Baker have been appointed assistant professors in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Tilman Wolf is a new assistant professor of Electrical and Com-puter Engineering. New tenure-track hires in CNSM are Alexander J. Levine, Physics; Alfred Crosby, Polymer Science and Engineering; Luc Rey-Bellet and Farshid Hajir, both in Mathematics and Statistics; Steven Petsch, Geosciences; Michael J. Knapp, Chemistry; Todd Tripp, Astronomy; Emery Berger and Oliver Brock, both in Computer Science. Elizabeth Henneman has
been appointed assistant professor in the School of Nursing. The School of Education gave tenure-track appointments to Patricia Paugh, Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies and Catherine Dimmitt, Student Development and Pupil Personnel Services. CFNR's sole appointee is Stephen McKelvey, assistant professor of Sport Studies. |
