Twenty-two UMaine Faculty Members Receive Promotion and/or Tenure
The University of Maine System Board of Trustees has approved promotion and/or tenure for 22 University of Maine faculty members. The professors were nominated by UMaine President Paul Ferguson based on a peer and administrative review of their successful work in teaching, research and public service.
“These faculty are among our academic leaders, providing some of the best teaching, research and community outreach in their fields,” says Ferguson. “We appreciate their caliber of excellence, innovation, inquiry and commitment to our students and state, and we celebrate their achievement. They are key to helping UMaine reach its goal of being among the most student-centered and community-engaged research universities in the country.”
Promoted to professor
College of Business, Public Policy and Health
- Nory Jones, Management Information Systems
College of Engineering
- William DeSisto, Chemical Engineering
- Karen Horton, Mechanical Engineering Technology
- David Neivandt, Chemical Engineering
- Bruce Segee, Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Margaret Lukens, English
- Michael Wittmann, Physics
College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture
- Andrei Alyokhin, Applied Entomology
- Benildo de los Reyes, Biological Sciences
- Jasmine Saros, Paleoecology
Promoted to research professor
College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture
- Richard Wahle, School of Marine Sciences
Promoted to Extension professor
- Marjorie Peronto, Cooperative Extension
Promoted to associate research professor
Climate Change Institute
- Andrei Kurbatov
College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture
- Rhian Waller, School of Marine Sciences
Promoted to associate professor with tenure
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Charlsye Diaz, English
- Shawn Ell, Psychology
- Nicholas Giudice, Computing and Information Science/National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
- Natasha Speer, Mathematics Education
College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture
- Aaron Weiskittel, Forest Biometrics and Modeling
Promoted to associate Extension professor with continuing contract
- Caragh Fitzgerald, Cooperative Extension
- Leslie Forstadt, Cooperative Extension
Granted tenure at the rank of associate professor
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Reinhard Moratz, Computing and Information Science/National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
Contact: Margaret Nagle, 207.581.3745; 207.949.4149