Tenure recognition for Purdue University in Indianapolis faculty

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In conjunction with the approval of other 2024 faculty promotions, the following faculty members in Indianapolis, who will join Purdue on July 1, will have “university tenure in Indianapolis” — the faculty tenure home established in August 2023 — as approved Friday (April 5) by the Purdue University Board of Trustees.

As Professor

Sohel Anwar

Zina Ben-Miled

Jie Chen

Stanley Yung-Ping Chien

Hamid Dalir

Mohamed A. El-Sharkawy (emeritus status)

Marjorie Hovde (emeritus status)

Ali Jafari

Snehasis Mukhopadhyay

M. Razi Nalim

Maher Rizkalla

Paul Salama

Peter James Schubert (emeritus status)

Mihran Tuceryan

Robert Stephen Weissbach

Jian Xie

Hiroki Yokota

Ken Yoshida

Huidan Yu

Jiang-Yu Zheng

Likun Zhu

As Associate Professor

Douglas C. Acheson (emeritus status)

Lauren Ann Christopher (emeritus status)

Euzeli Cipriano Dos Santos Jr.

Hazim A. El-Mounayri

Charles Feldhaus (emeritus status)

Julie Ying Hui Ji

Alan S. Jones

Dongsoo Kim

Brian King

Sarah Koskie

John Jaehwan Lee

Sungsoo Na

Katrenia Yvette Reed Hughes

Corinne Renguette

Christian Bryan Rogers

Kevin Jimmy Clarence Rose

Steven Michael Rovnyak (emeritus status)

John Schild (emeritus status)

Fengguang Song

Brandon Herald Sorge

Andres Tovar

Gavriil Tsechpenakis

Diane Wagner

Dong Xie

Jing Zhang

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