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The UMass Board of Trustees approved the appointments of tenure to 32 UMass Amherst faculty members at their quarterly meeting held on June 9.

Receiving appointments as tenured professors are:

Laura B. Attanasio, health promotion and policy
Seyram Avle, communication
Cameron Awkward-Rich, women, gender, sexuality studies
Jeanne Brunner, teacher education and curriculum studies
Justin Coles, student development and pupil personnel services
Adam S. Grabell, psychological and brain sciences
Owen G. Gwilliam, mathematics and statistics
Scott A. Hertel, physics
Mohit Nagaraja Iyyer, computer science
Juan M. Jimenez, mechanical and industrial engineering
Anya K. Klepikov, theater
Ashish A. Kulkarni, chemical engineering
Youngbin Kwak, psychological and brain sciences
Tongping Liu, electrical and computer engineering
Martin A. Medina Elizalde, geosciences
Sancha D. Medwinter, sociology
Alejandro Henry Morales Borrero, mathematics and statistics
Mandy Marie Muller, microbiology
Robert Paul Musgrave, political science
Mariana Pereira, psychological and brain sciences
Kimberlee Anne Perez, communication
Shannon C. Roberts, mechanical and industrial engineering
Tigran A. Sedrakyan, physics
Leili Shahriyari, mathematics and statistics
Yubing Sun, mechanical and industrial engineering
Jeremi Marek Szaniawski, languages, literature and cultures
Nicole A. VanKim, biostatistics and epidemiology
Elena M. Vazey, biology
Isabella M. Weber, economics
Katherine E. Whitaker, astronomy
Christopher W. White, music and dance
Jun Yao, electrical and computer engineering

Receiving transfer of tenure is:

Kathryn McDermott, from the Department of Educational Policy, Research and Administration to the School of Public Policy