Milestones
2006-07 Faculty Promotions and New Faculty
The following people have been promoted from assistant to associate professor.
In the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Jeremy Foltz, agriculture and applied economics; Michel Wattiaux, dairy science; David Shoemaker, entomology; JaeHyuk Yu, food microbiology and toxicology; Scott Rankin, food science; Mark Rickenbach, forest ecology and management; Volker Radeloff, forest ecology and management; Scott Bowe, forest ecology and management; K.G. Karthikeyan, biological systems engineering; Laura Jull, horticulture; and Jun Zhu, soil science (also statistics in the College of Letters and Science).
In the School of Business, Aleksander Stajkovic and Gerard George.
In the School of Education, John Hitchcock, art; Adam Nelson, educational policy studies; Sadhana Puntambekar, educational psychology; David Shaffer, educational psychology; Gail Simpson, art; and David Rosenthal, rehabilitation psychology and special education.
In the College of Engineering, Walter Block, biomedical engineering (also medical physics); Sean Palecek, chemical and biological engineering; Xiaochun Li, mechanical engineering; Gregory Nellis, mechanical engineering; Darryl Thelen, mechanical engineering; Michael Schulte, electrical and computer engineering; Carl Sovinec, engineering physics; and Chin-Hsien Wu, civil and environmental engineering.
In School of Human Ecology, Jennifer Angus and Julie Poehlmann.
In the Law School, Pilar Ossorio and Thomas Mitchell.
In the College of Letters and Science, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, computer sciences; Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, computer sciences; William Aylward, classics; Victor Bascara, English; Ned Blackhawk, history; Richard Boyd, political science; John Curtin, psychology; Charo D’Etcheverry, East Asian languages and literature; Sridhara Dasu, physics; Anthony DiSanza, School of Music; Greg Downey, library and information studies (also journalism and mass communication); Ivan Ermakoff, sociology; Kristin Eschenfelder, library and information studies; Martha Fischer, School of Music; David Furumoto, theatre and drama; Michel Guillot, sociology; Mary Halloran, zoology; Grace Hong, English; Somesh Jha, computer sciences; Carol Lee, zoology; Ruth Litovsky, communicative disorders; Nancy Marshall, art history; M. Giovanna Merli, sociology; Clark Miller, LaFollette School of Public Affairs; Judith Mitchell, English; Lisa Nakamura, communication arts; James Raymo, sociology; Kathryn Sanchez, Spanish and Portuguese; Howard Schweber, political science; Aseema Sinha, political science; James Sweet, history; Lyn Turkstra, communicative disorders; Henry Turner, English; Rebecca Walkowitz, English; Katherine Walsh, political science; Anja Wanner, English; Jason Yaeger, anthropology; and David Zimmerman, English.
In the School of Medicine and Public Health, Andrew Alexander, medical physics; Bruce Barrett, family medicine; William Boissonnault, orthopedics and rehabilitation; Chiara Cirelli, psychiatry; Joseph Dillard, medical microbiology and immunology; Marilyn Essex, psychiatry; Timothy Gomez, anatomy; Youngsook Lee, anatomy; Nader Sheibani, ophthalmology and visual science; Robert Streiffer, medical history and bioethics; Maureen Smith, population health sciences; and Tomy Varghese, medical physics.
In the School of Pharmacy, Maureen Barr.
In the School of Veterinary Medicine, Peter Muir, Nicole Perna, and John Svaren.
The following people have been promoted from associate professor to professor.
In the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Michael Bell, rural sociology; Patricia McManus, plant pathology; Richard Eisenstein, nutritional science; T. Randall Fortenbery, agriculture and applied economics; Robert Provencher, agriculture and applied economics; and Pamela Ruegg, dairy science.
In the School of Business, Mark Ready.
In the School of Education, Jin-Wen Yu, dance; Brian Bottge, rehabilitation psychology and special education; and Bernadette Baker, curriculum and instruction.
In the College of Engineering, Robert Blick, electrical and computer engineering; Dariusz Ceglarek, industrial engineering; Robert Nowak, electrical and computer engineering; Bin Ran, civil and environmental engineering; and Daniel Klingenberg, chemical and biological engineering.
In the College of Letters and Science, Mustafa Emirbayer, sociology; Cary Forest, physics; Carolyn Heinrich, LaFollette School of Public Affairs; John Martin, sociology; Cynthia Miller, Hebrew and Semitic studies; Silvia Montiglio, classics; Lynn Nyhart, history of science; Seth Pollak, psychology; Patrick Rumble, French and Italian; Bradley Singer, geology and geophysics; Joe Soss, political science; Basil Tikoff, geology and geophysics; J. Randolph Valentine, linguistics; Anne Vila, French and Italian; John Westbury, communicative disorders; Eric Wilcots, astronomy; Louise Young, history; and Vinay Dharwadker, languages and cultures of Asia.
In the School of Medicine and Public Health, Sanjay Asthana, medicine; Jack Jiang, surgery; Patricia Kokotailo, pediatrics; Leonard Levin, ophthalmology and visual science; Shigeki Miyamoto, pharmacology; Yoram Shenker, medicine; and Daniel Ulrich, anatomy.
In the School of Nursing, Linda Oakley.
In the School of Veterinary Medicine, Douglas DeBoer.
The following people have received new tenured appointments.
In the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Sharon Long, soil science; and Margaret Jahn, genetics and agronomy.
In the School of Business, Thomas O’Guinn and Gregory DeCroix.
In the School of Education, David Kaplan, educational psychology; and Dorothy Edwards, kinesiology.
In the School of Human Ecology, Marc Smith.
In the College of Letters and Science, Dalton Schnack, physics; Deborah Carr, sociology; Jeff Smith, communication arts; Harold Tobin, geology and geophysics; Kurt Feigl, geology and geophysics; Christine Pawley, library and information studies; Gloria Mari Beffa, mathematics; Jeff Viaclovsky, mathematics; Peter Vranas, philosophy; Julie Washington, communicative disorders; and Barry Burden, political science.
In the School of Medicine and Public Health, David Chestnut, anesthesiology; Wolfgang Tome, human oncology; Soren Bentzen, human oncology; Dinesh Shah, obstetrics and gynecology; Ellen Wald, pediatrics; David Mahvi, surgery; Shannon Kenney, medicine; Daniel Resnick, neurological surgery; and Robert Golden, psychiatry.
In the School of Nursing, Pamela Pletsch and David Vail.
In the School of Pharmacy, Richard Hsung.
The following people are new tenure-track faculty members.
In the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Mark Renz, agonomy; Douglas Weibel, biochemistry; Jill Harrison Pritikin, rural sociology; and Kurt Paulson, urban and regional planning.
In the School of Business, Cynthia Devers, Phillip Kim, Kersi Darius Antia, David Schweidel and Morris Davis.
In the School of Education, Michael Jay McClure, art; Thomas Jones, art; Carmen Valdez, counseling psychology; Mary Ann Pacheco, curriculum and instruction; Amy Bellmore, educational psychology; Erica Halverson, educational psychology; and William Schrage, kinesiology.
In the College of Engineering, Azadeh Davoodi, electrical and computer engineering; and Brenda Ogle, biomedical engineering.
In the Law School, Lisa Alexander and Stephanie Tai.
In the College of Letters and Science, Seth Antwi Ofori, African languages and literature; Travis Pickering, anthropology; Sebastian Heinz, astronomy; Snezana Stanimirovic, astronomy; Cecile Ane, botany; Eve Emshwiller, botany; John Berry, chemistry; Mahesh Mahanthappa, chemistry; Jeffrey Beneker, classics; An Hai Doan, computer sciences; Srinivasa, Akella, computer sciences; Shuchi Chawla, computer sciences; Ping Wang, East Asian language and literature; Jane Cooley, economics; Jean-Francois Houde, economics; Marzena Rostek, economics; Lynn Festa, English; Eric Raimy, English; Kristin Phillips Court, French and Italian; Amy Burnicki, geography; Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, history; Stephen Paling, library and information studies; Catherine Smith, library and information studies; Sean Paul, mathematics; Teryl Dobbs, School of Music; Karsten Heeger, physics; Lisa Everett, physics; Robert McDermott, physics; Maxim Vavilov, physics; Deniz Yavuz, physics; Mark Copelovitch, political science; Nils Ringe, political science; Nadav Shelef, political science; Yuri Miyamoto, psychology; Julie Allen, Scandinavian studies; Colleen Mahoney, social work; Christine Schwartz, sociology; and Zhiguang Qian, statistics.
In the School of Medicine and Public Health, Vjekoslav Miletic, anesthesiology; Adin-Christian Andrei, biostatics and medical informatics; Colin Dewey, biostatistics and medical informatics; Mihaela Teodorescu, medicine; Clifford Cho, surgery; and Susan Thibeault, surgery.
Support Grants for FY 2006-07
The University of Wisconsin System Institute on Race and Ethnicity has awarded four support grants for fiscal year 2006-07 to Cindy I-Fen Cheng, Department of History; Angela Byars-Winston, Department of Counseling Psychology; Jo Ellen Fair, School of Journalism and Mass Communication; and Mary Beltran, Departments of Communication Arts and of Chican@ and Latin@ Studies.
ACLS fellowships
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) awarded fellowships toHoward Schweber, Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship; Steve Stern, support through the ACLS Fellowship Program; and Jelena Subotic dissertation fellowship in East European Studies.
Published
William Tishler, professor emeritus of landscape architecture, has written “Wisconsin’s Emerald Treasure: A History of Peninsula State Park,” recently published by the University of Wisconsin Press.