UD trustees approve faculty promotions

Twenty-six members of the faculty have been promoted to full professor.

romotions of 51 members of the University of Delaware faculty were approved at the semiannual Board of Trustees meeting, held May 21.

The appointments take effect Sept. 1.

Sunil Agrawal
mechanical engineering

Suzanne Alchon
history

Ann Ardis
English

Mohsen Badiey
physical ocean and science engineering

Anne Boylan
history

Nancy Brickhouse
education

Thomas Buchanan
mechanical engineering

Cynthia Carr
music

Michael Chajes
civil and environmental engineering

Patrick Gaffney
marine studies

Lesa Griffiths
animal and food sciences

Thomas Ilvento
food and resource economics

Eric Kmiec
biological sciences

Madeline Lambrecht
nursing

Wenbo Li
mathematical sciences

George Parsons
marine studies

Clinton White
accounting and management information systems

NOT PICTURED
Ronet Bachman, sociology and criminal justice;

Jingguang Chen, materials science and engineering;

Ardeshir Faghri, civil and environmental engineering;

Charlene Hamilton, nutrition and dietetics;
John Hurt, history;

William Meyer, political science and international relations;

Raj Varma, finance;

Donald Unger, individual and family studies; and

Xiang-Gen Xia, electrical and computer engineering

Twenty-two faculty members were promoted to associate professor.

Karl Aquino
business administration

Maria Aristigueta
urban affairs and public policy

Kenneth Campbell
political science and international relations

Melinda Duncan
biological sciences

Marlene Emara
animal and food sciences

Carol Henderson
English

Rolf Joerger
animal and food sciences

NOT PICTURED:

Pei Chiu, civil and environmental engineering;
Keith Decker, computer and information sciences;
Peter Feng, Jonathan Grossman,
Matthew Kinservik and Julian Yates, English;
John Koh, chemistry and biochemistry;
Anne Morris, education;
Norbert Mulders, physics and astronomy;
Laura Salsini and Alexander Selimov, foreign languages and literatures;
Stewart Shapiro, business administration;
Bahira Sharif, individual and family studies;
Steve Tague, theatre; and
Gail Holland Wade, nursing

Leslie Cooksy of the Center for Community Development and Family Programming is now an associate professor without tenure.

Tenure is granted to two associate professors– Andreas Muenchow, physical ocean and science engineering, and Maria Frawley, English, (not pictured).