This week the University community welcomes a cadre of new faculty and staff, including nearly 60 new full-time faculty.

"Many exceptional new faculty and staff are coming to campus," says Chancellor and Provost for University Affairs Mark Emmert, who with President Philip Austin will address new faculty at an orientation today. "Our recruiting this past year has been extraordianrily successful, bringing to the University excellent academic talent in a variety of disciplines.

"I am particularly pleased that those joining are not only faculty of the highest quality, they are also the most diverse group of entering faculty we have ever had. The splendid qualities of those joining us are a clear demonstration of the national and international attractiveness of the University of Connecticut," he says.

Eldridge S. Adams, asst. prof., ecology and evolutionary biology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; specialty: social behavior of insects.

Arlene Albert, assoc. prof., molecular and cell biology; Ph.D., University of Virginia; specialty: protein-membrane interaction and signal transduction.

Jennifer Baszile, asst. prof., history; Ph.D. (expected), Princeton; specialty: American colonial history.

Sigrid Beck, asst. prof., linguistics; Ph.D., University of Tubingen, Germany;

Matthew Begley, asst. prof., mechanical engineering; Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara; specialty: solid mechanics and design.

Philip S. Bogden, asst. prof., marine sciences; Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanogra-phy at the University of California at San Diego; specialty: dynamics of coastal oceans.

Patricia Born, asst. prof., finance; Ph.D., Duke; specialty: insurance/health systems management.

James Boster, prof., anthropology; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; specialty: cognitive anthropology; intracultural variation.

Marlene Bouvier, asst. prof., pharmaceutical sciences; Ph.D., McGill; specialty: medicinal chemistry.

Preston Britner, asst. prof., family studies; Ph.D., University of Virginia; specialty: family violence, social policy.

Valerie Bryant, asst. prof., social work; Ph.D., NYU's Ehrenkranz School of Social Work; specialty: domestic violence, African-American women's issues.

Charles Caley IV, asst. prof., pharmacy; Pharm.D., University of Rhode Island; specialty: psychiatric pharmacotherapy.

Zoe G. Cardon, asst. prof., ecology & evolutionary biology; Ph.D., Stanford; specialty: ecosystem processes below ground.

Richard A. Chisik, asst. prof., economics; Ph.D., Northwestern University; specialty: international trade, industrial organization.

Karen Chow, asst. prof., English/Asian American Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara; specialty: contemporary Asian American literature.

Carl Coelho, asst. prof., communication sciences; Ph.D., UConn; specialty: adult neurogenic disorders.

Cornelia Dayton, assoc. prof., history; Ph.D., Princeton; specialty: American colonial history.

Cora Lynn Deibler, asst. prof., art; MFA, Syracuse; specialty: illustration.

Niloy Dutta, prof., physics, assoc. director of photonics research; Ph.D., Cornell; specialty: photonics, fiber optics.

Maria Fernandez, assoc. prof. nutritional sciences; Ph.D., University of Arizona; specialty: effect of diet on cholesterol and lipo-protein metabolism.

Gordon Fuller, asst. ext. prof., international affairs, director of UConn's American English Language Institute; MA, American Graduate School of International Management; MA, University of Utah; specialty: program assessment, curriculum development.

Daniel J. Gage, asst. prof. molecular and cell biology; Ph.D., University of Michigan; specialty: plant-microbe interactions.

Jeffrey Gaither, asst prof., art; MFA, Virginia Commonwealth; specialty: graphic design/multi-media.

Jose Gaztambide-Geigel, asst. prof., communication sciences; joint appointment with Roper Center and Institute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies; Ph.D., Stanford.

Alok Gupta, asst. prof., operations and information management; Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin; specialty; electronic commerce, decision support systems.

Kenneth Jackson, asst. prof., English; Ph.D., Loyola University of Chicago; specialty: Shakespeare, Renaissance studies.

Martis Jones, director of diversity and asst. prof. in residence, business administration; Ph.D., Vanderbilt; specialty: strategic management, leadership.

Marijke Kehrhahn, asst. prof., educational leadership; Ph.D., UConn; specialty: adult education.

Wei Li, asst. prof., geography and Asian American Studies; Ph.D., University of Southern California.

Jocelyn Linnekin, prof., anthropology; Ph.D., University of Michigan; specialty: ethnological theory, history of anthropology, people of the Pacific.

Benjamin Liu, asst. prof., Spanish; Ph.D., Harvard. specialty: medieval and early modern Spanish Literature.

Samuel Martinez, asst. prof., anthropology; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins; specialty: ethnology, plantation studies, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Luis L. Martins, asst. prof., business administration; Ph.D., NYU; specialty: organizational behavior, straategic management.

Cameron Macdonald, asst. prof., sociology; Ph.D., Brandeis; specialty: sociology of family, work, and gender.

Olivier F. Moran, asst. prof., economics; Ph.D., Arizona State; specialty: macroconomic theory, economic development.

Kevin Murphy, asst. prof., mechanical engineering; Ph.D., Duke.

Gary Oates, asst. prof. of sociology; Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; specialty: socioeconomics, gender.

Jeffrey Green Ogbar, asst. prof., history; Ph.D. (expected) Indiana University; specialty: 20th century African-American history.

Osvaldo Pardo, asst. prof., Spanish; Ph.D., University of Michigan; specialty: Spanish Latin American Literature.

Igor Perisic, asst. prof., statistics, West Hartford Campus; Ph.D., Harvard (expected).

Donna Ravin, asst. prof., pharmacy; Pharm.D., University of Rhode Island; specialty: ambulatory care. (start date October 1.)

Diana Rios, asst. prof., communication sciences, joint appointment with Roper Center and Institute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies; Ph.D., University of Texas; specialty: public opinion research.

Peter Sacco, assoc. prof., music, and new orchestra director; Master of Music, Yale School of Music; specialty: conducting.

Eugene Santos Jr., assoc. prof., computer science and engineering; Ph.D., Brown University; specialty: intelligence systems.

Laurietz Seda, asst. prof., Spanish, West Hartford Campus; Ph.D., University of Kansas.

Alexander Shvartsman, asst. prof., computer science and engineering; Ph.D., Brown; specialty: software architecture.

Regina Silk, asst. prof., pharmacy; Pharm.D., Virginia Commonwealth; specialty: adult internal medicine.

Philip Streifer, assoc. prof., educational leadership; Ph.D., UConn; specialty: educational administration.

Melissa Succi, asst. prof., finance, Ph.D., University of Michigan; specialty: health systems management.

Roger Travis, asst. prof., classics; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; specialty: Greek tragedy, Latin poetry.

Sandra C. Vigil-Cruz, asst. prof., pharmaceutical sciences; Ph.D., Oregon State; specialty: medicinal chemistry.

Zhiping D. Walter, asst. prof., businesss administration; Ph.D., University of Rochester; specialty: management information systems, workflow analysis.

Fei Wang, asst. prof., pharmacy; Pharm.D., Saint John's University; specialty: internal medicine.

J. Evan Ward, asst. prof., marine sciences; Ph.D., University of Delaware; specialty: marine environmental physiology.

Janet Watson, asst. prof., history; Ph.D., Stanford; specialty: 20th century European history.

David Yalof, asst. prof., political science; Ph.D., John Hopkins; specialty: constitutional law and judicial behavior.

Mark Youndt, asst. prof., management; Ph.D., Penn State; specialty: human resource management, strategic management.

In the next issue, the Advance will feature new deans and department heads.