Promotion and/or Tenure for 21 UMaine Professors
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — At its Bangor meeting today, the University of Maine System Board of Trustees approved promotion and/or tenure for 21 University of Maine faculty members. The professors, who represent the broad spectrum of UMaine academic programs, were nominated by UMaine President Robert Kennedy after an extensive process reviewing their work in teaching, research and community service.
“This group exemplifies the scholarly excellence of the University of Maine faculty,” Kennedy says. “Each of these professors has a significant record of outstanding work benefiting our students and our state.”
Those nominations approved today:
PROMOTED TO PROFESSOR
- Richard H. Borgman, Finance
- Gloria L. Vollmers, Accounting
- Craig A. Mason, Education and Applied Quantitative Methods
- Stephen M. Miller, History
- Touradj Solouki, Chemistry
- Beth Wiemann, Music
- Emmanuel S. Boss, Oceanography
- Todd M. Gabe, Resource Economics and Policy
- Carol H. Kim, Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology
PROMOTED TO ASSOCIATE RESEARCH PROFESSOR
- Lee Karp-Boss, Marine Sciences
- Andrew J. Pershing, Marine Sciences
PROMOTED TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WITH TENURE
- Susan K. Gardner Cosgrove, Higher Education Leadership
- Yifeng Zhu, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Phillip M. Dickens, Computer Science
- Kimberly A. Huisman, Sociology
- Andrew H. Knightly, Mathematics
- Laura A. Lindenfeld, Mass Communications/Media Studies and Public Policy
- Brian S. Robinson, Anthropology and Climate Change Institute
- Michael J. Socolow, Communication and Journalism
- Clarissa A. Henry, Biological Sciences
- Sara M. Lindsay, Marine Science