{"id":59155,"date":"2020-04-29T04:07:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=59155"},"modified":"2020-04-23T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:10:34","slug":"faculty-recognized-for-tenure-and-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/04_29_2020\/faculty-recognized-for-tenure-and-promotion","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Recognized for Tenure and Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 50 members of the faculty were approved for tenure and promotion by The University of Toledo Board of Trustees at its April meeting.<\/p>\n<p>There were 19 faculty members approved for tenure and promotion and another 31 who were promoted to professor or associate professor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve implemented a number of workshops to provide support for faculty members to advance their careers at UToledo, and I\u2019m excited to see the results of those efforts as these impressive educators and researchers achieve this milestone,\u201d said Dr. Karen Bjorkman, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The faculty member who received tenure and promotion to professor is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Medicine and Life Sciences<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 Dr. Deepa Mukundan, Pediatrics<\/p>\n<p>Faculty members who received tenure and promotion to associate professor are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Arts and Letters<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 Dr. Melissa Baltus, Sociology and Anthropology<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. Allyson Day, Disability Studies<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. Matthew Foss, Theatre and Film<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. Peter Mezo, Psychology<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. Karie Peralta, Sociology and Anthropology<br \/>\n\u2022 Stephen Sakowski, Theatre and Film<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. Kasumi Yamazaki, Languages and Cultures<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judith Herb College of Education<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 Dr. Katherine Delaney, Teacher Education<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Engineering<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 Dr. Jared Oluoch, Engineering Technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Health and Human Services<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 Dr. Madeline Clark, School of Intervention and Wellness<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. David Lilley, School of Social Justice<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. Megan Petra, School of Social Justice<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Medicine and Life Sciences<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 Dr. David Kennedy, Medicine<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 Dr. Heather Conti, Biological Science<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. Welivitiya Ajith Karunarathne, Chemistry and Biochemistry<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. Jeanine Refsnider, Environmental Sciences<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 Dr. Gabriella Baki, Pharmacy Practice<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. Julie Murphy, Pharmacy Practice<\/p>\n<p>The faculty members who achieved promotion to professor are Dr. Kristen Keith, Dr. Barbara Schneider and Dr. Oleg Smirnov in the College of Arts and Letters; Dr. Snejana Slantcheva-Durst in the Judith Herb College of Education; Dr. Barry Scheuermann in the College of Health and Human Services; Shelley Cavalieri in the College of Law; Thomas Atwood in University Libraries; Dr. Roger Kruse, Dr. Matam Kumar, Dr. Adel Maklad, Dr. Jorge Ortiz, Dr. Alina Rais, Dr. Martin Skie, Dr. Xin Wang and Dr. Randall Worth in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences; Dr. Michael Cushing, Dr. Guofa Liu, Dr. Nikolas Podraza and Dr. Sonmez Sahutoglu in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics; Dr. Martha Sexton in the College of Nursing; and Dr. Jerry Nesamony in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The faculty members promoted to associate professor in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences are Dr. Arunkumar Baskara, Dr. Annette Collier, Dr. Stephen Grider, Dr. Jyl Matson, Dr. Mariam Mina, Dr. Mohamad Moussa, Dr. Shalini Niranjan, Dr. Chayanika Pal, Dr. Cherian Verghese and Dr. Jennifer Ruddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 50 members of the faculty were approved for tenure and promotion by The University of Toledo Board of Trustees at its April meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59155"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59168,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59155\/revisions\/59168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}