Appointments
Assistant Professor: Dec. 29--Michael R. Zenn, medicine. Jan. 1, 1996--Richard M. Bailey, aerospace studies; Christine L. Moe, epidemiology; Steve L. Slezak, business; Lishan Su, microbiology/immunology; Michael T. Vogel, naval sciences. Jan. 15--Ann E. Eakin, pharmacy. Feb. 1--Carol Ann Ford, pediatrics & medicine; Christopher E. Walsh, medicine. March 1--Diane C. Shugars, diagnostic sciences, dentistry;
Promotions
Professor: Jan. 1--J. Kenneth Whitt, psychiatry & pediatrics.
Leaves of Absence
Oct. 1, 1995-June 30, 1996--William Ussler, marine sciences, a leave extension to continue work in New Zealand.
Spring Semester--Harry Amana, journalism/mass communications, a W.R. Kenan Jr. leave to conduct research on 20th century black history, in North Carolina, New Orleans, New York City and Washington, D.C.; James W. Friedman, economics, to devote full time to research on extending bounded rationality with Jacques Thisse, as well as working on other bounded rationality research with Claudio Mezzetti, in Paris and in Chapel Hill; Richard H. Kohn, history, a W.N. Reynolds leave to research a book on American war leadership from James Madison through George Bush, in Chapel Hill and Durham; David L. Lowery, history, a W.N. Reynolds leave to conduct research at the University of Twente in The Netherlands; Donald G. Mathews, history, a Kenan leave to complete research for a book on religion, race, gender and popular culture in the industrializing South, 1870-1935, in Chapel Hill; Craig Melchert, linguistics, to accept a visiting professorship at Harvard University; Monica P. Rector, Romance languages, a W.R. Kenan Jr. leave to conduct research on the emergence of female writers in Portuguese literature, in Chapel Hill and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Donald M. Reid, history, a Kenan leave to complete a book on the interpretive strategies used to read Karl Marx's The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, in Chapel Hill; Britta Sjogren, communications studies, to produce an independent feature film project in California; Jonathan M. Wahl, mathematics, a Kenan leave to continue research on two long-term projects in the area of algebraic geometry, in Chapel Hill. Gert Webelhuth, linguistics, to accept a visiting assistant professorship at Stanford University.
Jan.1-June 30, 1996--Barbara E. James, psychiatry, a leave extension to continue her studies in psychological and family support services; Hsiao-Ming Peng, cell biology and anatomy, a Kenan leave to work with Heikki Rauvala at the University of Helsinki.
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