Faculty Awarded Tenure and/or Promotion
The following faculty were promoted and/or tenured effective at the beginning of the 2015-2016 academic year, Provost and Senior Vice President Chukuka S. Enwemeka announced.
Promoted to Professor
- Farid Abdel-Nour – Political Science
- Trent Biggs – Geography
- Denitsa Bliznakova – Theatre, Television and Film
- Heather Corliss - Graduate School of Public Health (and Tenured)
- Robert Edwards – Computer Science
- Patricia Hatch – Counseling and School Psychology
- Donald (D. J.) Hopkins - Theatre, Television and Film
- Samuel Kassegne – Mechanical Engineering
- Rebecca Lewison – Biology
- Hala Madanat – Graduate School of Public Health
- Pascale Marcelli – Geography
- Gregorio Ponce – Teacher Education/Imperial Valley Campus
- Amy Randel – Management
- Todd Rewoldt – Music and Dance
- Betty Samraj – Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
- Leslie Seiters – Music and Dance
- Elizabeth Waters – Biology
- Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu - Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
- Maria Zuniga – Social Work (and Tenured)
- Tao Xie – Computer Science
Promoted to Associate Professor and Tenured
- Amirhossein Alimohammad – Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Thais da Costa Alves – Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
- Katina Henrike Blumenfeld - Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
- Salvador Espinosa – Public Affairs
- Shirin Hooshmand-Yazdi - Exercise and Nutritional Sciences
- Katina Lambros Ortega - Counseling and School Psychology
- Jeremy Long – Biology
- Robert Meffe - Theatre, Television and Film
- Paul Minifee - Rhetoric and Writing Studies
- Walter Penrose, Jr. – History
- Melody Sadler – Psychology
- Allison Vaughn – Psychology
