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April 12, 2004

Trustees approve faculty promotions

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University's Board of Trustees approved several faculty promotions during its meeting on Friday (4/9).

The following promotions are effective with the 2004-05 academic year:

WEST LAFAYETTE

TO PROFESSOR

Arun K. Bhunia, food science
Joan R. Fulton, agricultural economics
Robert J. O’Neil, entomology
Gerald E. Shively, agricultural economics
Bernard Y. Tao, agricultural and biological engineering
Sugato Chakravarty. consumer sciences and retailing
Sharon A. DeVaney, consumer sciences and retailing
Steven H. Frankel, mechanical engineering
Mary P. Harper, electrical and computer engineering
Jan Olek, civil engineering
Nagabhushana Prabhu, industrial engineering
Steven P. Schneider, aeronautical and astronautical engineering
Ness B. Shroff, electrical and computer engineering
Xianfan Xu, mechanical engineering
Yuehwern Yih, industrial engineering
Patrice M. Buzzanell, communication
Michael G. Flynn, health and kinesiology
Janice R. Kelly, psychological sciences
Zygmunt Pizlo, psychological sciences
Mark E. Bagnoli, management
Chong Gu, statistics
Peter J. Hollenbeck, biological sciences
M. Daniel Raftery, chemistry
Denver W. Lopp, aviation technology
Taggart E. Smith, organizational leadership and supervision
Regina A. Kreisle, veterinary pathobiology
Augustine T. Peter, veterinary clinical sciences
Joanna Catharine Scott-Moncrieff, veterinary clinical sciences

TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Mark A. Balschweid, youth development and agricultural education
Barbara L. Golden, biochemistry
Greg J. Hunt, entomology
Gurmukh S. Johal, botany and plant pathology
Joseph P. Ogas, biochemistry
Edmond A. Pajor, animal sciences
Barry R. Pittendrigh, entomology
Paul C. Siciliano Jr., horticulture and landscape architecture
Daniel B. Szymanski, agronomy
Kim L. Wilson, horticulture and landscape architecture
Jin-Rong Xu, botany and plant pathology
Sandra S. Liu, consumer sciences and retailing
Douglas C. Nelson, hospitality and tourism management
JoAnn I. Phillion, curriculum and instruction
David S. Corti, chemical engineering
Makarand Hastak, civil engineering
David R. Johnson, materials engineering
William C. Oakes, freshman engineering
Thomas H. Siegmund, mechanical engineering
T. N. Vijaykumar, electrical and computer engineering
Carl R. Wassgren Jr., mechanical engineering
William Jason Weiss, civil engineering
Kristina K. Bross, English
Rachel L. Einwohner, sociology
Patrice D. Rankine, foreign languages and literatures
Felicia D. Roberts, communication
Alan L. Smith, health and kinesiology
Mariko M. Wei, foreign languages and literatures
Michael J. Fosmire, library science
Alexius S. Macklin, library science
John William Fritch, library science
Timothy B. Folta, management
Sanjay G. Kallapur, management
Eric L. Barker, medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology
Gregory H. Hockerman, medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology
Val J. Watts, medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology
Donatella Garofalo, mathematics
Sunil K. Prabhakar, computer science
Paul G. Wenthold, chemistry
Clark A. Cory, computer graphics technology
James L. Jenkins, building construction management technology
Jan T. Lugowski, mechanical engineering technology
Susan G. Miller, computer graphics technology
John A. Mendonca, computer technology
Edie K. Schmidt, industrial technology

PURDUE CALUMET
TO PROFESSOR

Carolyn Boiarsky, English
Peter Turbek, mathematics
Charles Winer, computer information systems and information technology

TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Mary Didelot, education
Pamela Frampton, education
John Lucas, management
Amlan Mitra, economics
Megan Pickett, physics and astronomy
Samuel Zinaich, philosophy

INDIANA UNIVERSITY-PURDUE UNIVERSITY
FORT WAYNE

TO PROFESSOR

Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh, mechanical engineering technology
Judith Elaine Blakemore, psychology
Ronald Samuel Friedman, chemistry
Nashwan Thanoon Younis, mechanical engineering

TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Dennis J. Marshall, architectural engineering technology
Beomjin Kim, computer science
Brenda L. Lundy, psychology

INDIANA UNIVERSITY-PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS
TO PROFESSOR

Dring N. Crowell, biology
Gabriel Filippelli, geology
Zhe-Yu Jeff Ou, physics
Simon Rhodes, biology

TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Douglas C. Acheson, mechanical engineering technology
Zina Ben-Miled, electrical and computer engineering
Barbara Christe, electrical and computer engineering technology
John H. Schild, biomedical engineering
Joy Starks, computer and information technology
Hiroki Yokota, biomedical engineering
Dennis Devine, psychology
Jovier Evans, psychology

PURDUE NORTH CENTRAL
TO PROFESSOR

Purna Chandra Das, physics

TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Jason A. Curtis, biological sciences
Kenneth Christopher Holford, biological sciences
Edward M. Vavrek, mechanical engineering technology
Donna L. Whitten, business

STATEWIDE TECHNOLOGY
TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Michael L. Holcombe, electrical engineering technology
Nghia T. Le, electrical and computer engineering technology
Kuber N. Maharjan, computer technology
Michele L. Summers, organizational leadership and supervision

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