{"id":93101,"date":"2025-06-05T03:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T07:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=93101"},"modified":"2025-06-10T08:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:53:57","slug":"university-faculty-recognized-for-tenure-and-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/06_05_2025\/university-faculty-recognized-for-tenure-and-promotion","title":{"rendered":"University Faculty Recognized for Tenure and Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo Board of Trustees approved 56 faculty members for promotion and tenure at its April meeting.<\/p>\n<p>There were 22 faculty members who received tenure or tenure with promotion and another 34 were promoted to professor or associate professor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe University of Toledo and the Office of the Provost prioritizes the success of our faculty and our students,\u201d said Dr. Scott Molitor, interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. \u201cWe are immensely proud to recognize this year\u2019s cohort of faculty members who have advanced through the tenure and promotion process, and to celebrate their accomplishments in teaching, research and service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The faculty members who received tenure are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Medicine and Life Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Eric Carlson, Clinical Educator Track, Surgery<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Lori DeShetler, Medical Education<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Adel Maklad, Medical Education<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Bindu Menon, Medical Education<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Tomoaki Ogino, Medical Microbiology and Immunology<\/p>\n<p>Faculty members who received tenure and promotion to associate professor are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Arts and Letters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio Peralta, English Language and Literature<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Rachel Dudley, Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Xianlin Jin, Communication and Media<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Rebecca Monteleone, Disability Studies<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Michael Stauch Jr., History<\/p>\n<p><strong>John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and Innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Hao-Wei Chen, Info Systems and Supply Chain Management<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Tyler Hancock, Marketing<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Elizabeth Napier, Marketing<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Dae-Wook Kang, Civil and Environmental Engineering<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Health and Human Services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Susan Long, Human Services<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Leslie Neyland-Brown, Human Services<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Medicine and Life Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Shi-He Liu, Cell and Cancer Biology<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Funda Gultepe, Mathematics and Statistics<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Trisha Spanbauer, Environmental Sciences<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Erin Prestwich, Medicinal and Biological Chemistry<\/p>\n<p>Faculty members who received tenure and promotion to professor are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>College of Health and Human Services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Beth Hatkevich, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Dr. Alexia Metz, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The faculty members who achieved promotion to associate professor are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 <strong>College of Law<\/strong>: Associate Professor Eugenio Mollo Jr.; Associate Professor Kelly Tomlinson.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 <strong>College of Medicine and Life Sciences<\/strong>: Dr. Zahra Aftab, Family Medicine; Dr. Hend Elsaghir, Medicine; Dr. Mona Hassan, Medicine; Dr. Brooke Koltz, Pathology; Dr. Sarmed Mansur, Medicine; Dr. M. Hammad Rashid, Community Based Track, Medicine; Dr. Paul Schultz, Family Medicine; Dr. Shawna Shafer, Community Based Track, Pediatrics; Dr. Nicholas Sperling, Radiation Oncology; Dr. Sharon Thomas, Community Based Track, Pediatrics; and Dr. Heather Wahl, Community Based Track, Obstetrics and Gynecology.<\/p>\n<p>The faculty members who achieved promotion to professor are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 <strong>College of Arts and Letters<\/strong>: Dr. Anthony Edgington, English Language and Literature; and Dr. Olman Piedra, Music.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 <strong>John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and Innovation<\/strong>: Dr. Marcelo Alvarado Vargas, Management.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 <strong>College of Engineering<\/strong>: Dr. Lesley Berhan, Mechanical Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering; Dr. Carmen Cioc, Engineering Technology; Dr. Jared Oluoch, Engineering Technology; and Dr. Hossein Sojoudi, Mechanical Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 <strong>College of Health and Human Services<\/strong>: Dr. Caroline Menezes, Exercise &amp; Rehabilitation Sciences; Dr. Jennifer Reynolds, Human Services; and Dr. Heather Sloane Cleary, Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 <strong>College of Medicine and Life Sciences<\/strong>: Dr. Arun Anantharam, Neurosciences and Psychiatry; Dr. Humphrey Atiemo, ProMedica Practitioner Track, Urology; Dr. Viviana Ferreira, Medical Education; Dr. Anu Garg, Medicine; Dr. Ellen Hagopian, Medical Education; Dr. Andrea Kalinoski, Surgery; Dr. David Kennedy, Medicine; Dr. Jeremy Laukka, Medical Education; Dr. David Pearson, Radiation Oncology; and Dr. Eileen Quinn, Pediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 <strong>College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences<\/strong>: Dr. Gabriella Baki, Pharmacy Practice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/06_05_2025\/university-faculty-recognized-for-tenure-and-promotion\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/06242024-Centennial_Mall_8196-1-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Main Campus beauty shot of the Bell Tower and University Hall on a sunny summer day.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>The UToledo Board of Trustees approved 56 faculty members for promotion and tenure at its April meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":878,"featured_media":93105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,32,34,61,498,30,38,39,1,42,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93101"}],"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\/878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93113,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93101\/revisions\/93113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}