Promotion/Tenure Approved for 31 UMaine Faculty Members
ORONO — The University of Maine System Board of Trustees has approved UMaine President Robert Kennedy’s tenure and/or promotion recommendations for 31 faculty members. The board’s action came at its Monday meeting.
“These professors represent the most outstanding characteristics of UMaine’s wonderful faculty,” Kennedy says. “As leading members of our community of scholars, they inspire our students as they work to extend UMaine expertise in ways that benefit
people, communities and businesses all over Maine. I congratulate each of them on reaching these significant career milestones.”
PROMOTED TO PROFESSOR
College of Business, Public Policy, and Health
Ivan M. Manev, Management
College of Education and Human Development
Richard H. Ackerman, Educational Leadership
Elizabeth J. Allan, Higher Education Leadership
Robert A. Lehnhard, Education
College of Engineering
Mauricio Pereira da Cunha, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Senthil S. Vel, Mechanical Engineering
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Amy Fried, Political Science
Cynthia E. Gardella, Psychology
Phillip A. Silver, Music
College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture
Aram J. K. Calhoun, Wetland Ecology
Karl J. Kreutz, Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute
Andrew Reeve, Geological Sciences
Donglin Zhang, Horticulture
PROMOTED TO RESEARCH PROFESSOR
College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture
Laurie B. Connell, School of Marine Sciences
PROMOTED TO EXTENSION PROFESSOR
Donna R. Coffin
Jane E. Haskell
Mark Hutchinson
PROMOTED TO ASSOCIATE EXTENSION PROFESSOR
Nadine B. Reimer
GRANTED TENURE AT THE RANK OF ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
College of Engineering
G. Peter van Walsum, Chemical and Biological Engineering
College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture
Jasmine Saros, Paleoecology
PROMOTED TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WITH TENURE
College of Business, Public Policy, and Health
Pankaj Agrrawal, Finance
College of Engineering
Ali Abedi, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carlton A. Brown, Surveying Engineering Technology
Zhihe Jin, Mechanical Engineering
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Andre Khalil, Mathematics
David C. Kress, English
Lisa K. Neuman, Anthropology and Native American Studies
College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture
Stephanie E. Burnett, Horticulture
Jessica E. Leahy, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
Kevin Simon, Stream Ecology
PROMOTED TO ASSOCIATE EXTENSION PROFESSOR WITH CONTINUING CONTRACT
Alan D. Majka