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