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Faculty Changes


Information supplied by the Office of the Chancellor. Effective 7/1/2000 unless noted otherwise.

APPOINTMENT OF DEPARTMENT CHAIRS

John G. Akin, professor, Department of Economics.

James W. Jorgenson, William Rand Kenan Jr.

distinguished professor, Department of Chemistry.

Rachel A. Rosenfeld, professsor, Department of Sociology.

Lars G. Schoultz, William Rand Kenan Jr. professor, Department of Political Science.

Francisco E. Werner, professor, Department of Marine Sciences.

DESIGNATION TO DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIPS

Judith M. Bennett, Martha Nell Hardy distinguished professor, history.

Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman distinguished

professor of American literature & culture, English.

Ronald R. Rindfuss, Robert Paul Ziff distinguished professor, sociology.

DESIGNATION TO DISTINGUISHED TERM PROFESSORSHIPS

Stephen Allred, Albert & Gladys Hall Coates term professor of public law and government for teaching excellence, Institute of Government.

Carl W. Ernst, Zachary Smith distinguished term

professor, religious studies.

Joy S. Kasson, Bowman and Gordon Gray distinguished term professor, English/American studies.

Michael A. McFee, Bowman and Gordon Gray

distinguished term associate professor, English.

PROMOTIONS TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CONFERRING TENURE

Sahar Amer, Romance languages, 7/1/2001

Susan L. Bickford, political science.

Michael L. Minion, mathematics.

Thomas H. Oatley, political science.

Michael L. Weiss, classics.

PROMOTIONS TO PROFESSOR

Charles H. Capper, history.

Gerald M. Cecil, physics & astronomy.

Karen M. Gil, psychology/psychiatry.

Stuart L. Hart, business.

Alan M. Jones, biology.

Gwendolyn B. Sancar, biochemistry & biophysics, 6/1.

Barbara M. Wildemuth, information & library science.

Jan J. Yopp, journalism & mass communication.

ADDITIONS OF A JOINT APPOINTMENT

Suresh Mukherji, associate professor, diagnostic

sciences & general dentistry, 4/1.

William D. Snider, professor, cell & molecular

physiology, 5/1.

NEW APPOINTMENTS CONFERRING TENURE

Linda S. Beeber, professor, nursing.

Raymond Joseph Burby, professor, city & regional planning.

Eric Ghysels, Edward M. Bernstein distinguished

professor, economics.

NEW APPOINTMENTS

Associate Professor

William R. Furman, anesthesiology, 5/15.

Zhi Liu, dermatology, 5/1.

Volker Nickeleit, pathology & lab medicine.

Harold H. Zhang, business.

Assistant Professor

Kathryn Jane Burns, history.

Frank Edward Fee Jr., journalism & mass communication.

Daniel P. Gitterman, public policy analysis.

Carolyn Jean Heinrich, public policy analysis.

Thomas W. Hummert, prosthodontics.

Maura K. Lafferty, classics.

Mong-shang Lin, dermatology, 5/1.

Jian Liu, medicinal chemistry & natural products, 5/15.

Yashomati Patel, nutrition.

Raz Pruthi, surgery, 6/1.

Lev Rozansky, mathematics.

Karla M. Slocum, anthropology/African &

Afro-American studies.

Susan M. Weeks, radiology.

Nadia Yaqub, Asian studies.

Instructor

Reappointed as assistant professor upon conferral of Ph.D.

Stuart Alexander Day, Romance languages.

Jane F. Thrailkill, English.

Gaz Zauberman, business.

LEAVES OF ABSENCE

Dong-Hyan Ahn, assistant professor, business, for professional development through 6/30/2001.

Stanley W. Black III, distinguished professor, economics, to be a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund through 6/30/2001.

James M. Damon, professor, mathematics, W.N. Reynolds leave to conduct research in singularity theory at Cambridge University through 12/31.

Norberto Kerzman, professor, mathematics, to research several complex variables through 12/31.

William G. Lycan, distinguished professor, philosophy, to be a distinguished visiting professor at Washington U.-St. Louis through 12/31.

Charles L. Viles, assistant professor, information & library science, for research and study through 6/30/2001.

Marc Zenner, professor, business, to fulfill professional obligations through 6/30/2001.


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