This fall the University again welcomes an outstanding group of new faculty and staff, including 85 new full-time faculty members.

"We're delighted that they're joining the University at such an exciting and important time in its history," says Mark Emmert, chancellor. "They come here at a point in time when UConn is making historic strides as it marches toward becoming a world-class University."

Emmert says the swell of faculty appointments was made possible by both the University's and the state's early retirement incentive, which resulted in a large number of retirees last year.

"This has enabled us to bring in a significant cohort of people who'll be able to influence the University for the next 30 years," he says.

Emmert says the new faculty are of the highest quality and are a diverse group. "In every case, the search committees understood how serious we are in advancing diversity at this institution, and they cast their nets broadly," he says. "The University's highest priority is attracting and retaining top quality students and faculty."

Gregory Acevedo, instr., social work; M.Sc. (education), Univ. of Pennsylvania; specialty: Puerto Rican studies.

Jeffrey R. Aeschlimann, asst. prof., pharmacy; Pharm.D., Univ. of Utah Coll. of Pharmacy; specialty: infectious disease and critical care.

Terri Albert, asst. prof.-in-residence, business admin.; Ph.D., Univ. of S. Calif.; specialty: marketing.

Elizabeth Anderson, asst. prof., nursing; Ph.D., Univ.of Maryland; specialty: HIV/AIDS research.

Brian J. Aneskievich, asst. prof., pharmacy; Ph.D., SUNY; specialty: cell and developmental biology.

Ben Bahr, asst. prof., pharmacy; Ph.D., Univ.of Calif.-Santa Barbara; specialty: chemistry and neuroscience research.

Richard Bass, prof., mathematics; Ph.D., Univ. of Calif.-Berkeley; specialty: applications of probability and analysis.

Susanne Beck Von Bodman, asst. prof., plant pathobiology; Ph.D., Univ. of Illinois; specialty: molecular biology of host-pathogen interactions.

Edward Benson, prof.-in-residence, mod. & class. langs.; Ph.D., Brown Univ.; specialty: French cinema and literature.

Paul Schiff Berman, assoc. prof., law; J.D., New York Univ.; specialty: law culture cyberspace.

Sudip Bhattacharjee, vis. asst. prof., business admin.; Ph.D., SUNY; specialty: operations and information management..

Thomas Bontly, instr., philosophy; Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin; specialty: philosophy of the mind and psychology.

Norma Bouchard, asst. prof., mod. & class. langs.; Ph.D., Indiana Univ.; specialty: Italian language and culture.

Thomas Brewer, asst. prof., nursing; Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan; specialty: neurobehavior and cognition.

Judith Brown, lect., allied health; M.S., UConn.; specialty: applied health services.

Pamela Brown, asst. prof., English; Ph.D., Columbia Univ.; specialty: early modern English literature.

Christian Bruckner, vis. asst. prof., chemistry; Ph.D., Univ. of British Columbia-Vancouver; specialty: metal coordination and synthetic organic chemistry.

Christine Carlock, asst. prof., business admin.; Ph.D., Univ. of Pittsburgh; specialty: accounting.

Kathleen Cienkowski, instr., comm. sci.; Ph.D., Univ. of Minnesota; specialty: communication disorders.

Daniel Codiga, asst. prof., marine sciences; Ph.D. Univ. of Washington; specialty: physical oceanography.

Frank Costigliola, prof., history; Ph.D., Cornell Univ.; specialty: U.S. foreign policy.

Robin Cote, vis. asst. prof., physics; Ph.D., MIT; specialty: atomic and molecular physics.

Regina Cusson, prof., nursing; Ph.D., Univ. of Maryland; specialty: neonatal nursing.

David D'Alessio, asst. prof., comm. sci.; Ph.D., Michigan State Univ.; specialty: communication processes.

Sylvain De Guise, asst. prof., pathobiology; Ph.D., Univ. of Quebec at Montreal; specialty: immunotoxicology and aquatic pathology.

Jeremy Foltz, asst. prof., ag. & resource econ.; Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin; specialty: technology adoption and economics of information, world hunger, rural finance.

Salvatore Frasca Jr., asst. prof., pathobiology; Ph.D., UConn.; specialty: general pathobiology, aquatic animal diseases.

Kenneth Gouwens, asst. prof., history; Ph.D., Stanford Univ.; specialty: European cultural and intellectual history.

Robin Greeley, asst. prof., art; Ph.D., Univ. of Calif.-Berkeley; specialty: Latin American art history.

Charles Hagen, asst. prof., art; M.F.A., Visual Studies Workshop; specialty: videography and photography.

Wei-Kuang Huang, vis. asst. prof., business admin.; Ph.D., Rutgers Univ.; specialty: operations and information management.

Jasminka Ilich-Ernst, assoc. prof., allied health; Ph.D., Ohio State Univ.; specialty: health promotion.

Sean Jeffery, asst. clinical prof., pharmacy; Pharm.D., Ohio State Univ.; specialty: geriatric ambulatory care.

Barry Johnson, asst. prof., physiol. & neurobiol.; Ph.D., Univ. of S. Calif.; specialty: developmental neurobiology.

Patsy Johnson, assoc. prof., ed. leadership; Ed.D., Auburn Univ.; specialty: educational administration.

Robert E. Johnson, assoc. prof.-in-residence, business admin.; Ph.D., Univ. of Rochester; specialty: operations and information management.

Sara Johnson, asst. prof., classics; Ph.D., Univ. of Calif.-Berkeley; specialty: Jewish Greek literature, Hellenistic history.

Joon-Ho Kang, asst. prof., sports, leisure and ex. scis; Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan; M.B.A., Wharton Univ.; specialty: sport management.

Kristin Kelly, instr., polit. sci.; Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin; specialty: public law, legal theory, women and politics.

Marina Krcmar, asst. prof., comm. sci.; Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin; specialty: media and child development.

Walter Lamb, assoc. prof., English; M.F.A., Vermont Coll.; specialty: creative writing.

Bruce A. Larson, asst. prof., ag. & resource econ.; Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin; specialty: natural resource and environmental economics, international development.

Juliet Lee, asst. prof., molec. & cell biol.; Ph.D., London Univ.; specialty: regulation of cell movement.

Yi Li, asst. prof., plant science; Ph.D., SUNY; specialty: plant molecular biology.

Emily Lin, asst. prof., economics; Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan; specialty: public policy, human capital, poverty, demography.

Barris Philip Malcolm, instr., social work; M.S.W., UConn.; specialty: program development, combating poverty, planning and administration.

Sylvia McClain, assoc. prof., music; D.M.A., Univ. of Texas-Austin; specialty: voice performance.

Barbara Meagher, vis. asst. prof., journalism; M.A., Boston Univ.; specialty: broadcast journalism.

Hassan Melehy, asst. prof., French; Ph.D., Univ. of Minnesota; specialty: early modern France, literature, philosophy.

Donna Merritt, vis. asst. prof., comm. sci.; Ph.D., UConn.; specialty: child language pathology.

Thomas H. Meyer, asst. prof., nat. rscs. mgt. & engin.; Ph.D., Texas A&M; specialty: geographic information systems.

David Moss, asst. prof., curric. & instr.; (other information not available).

Jay Mouser, asst. prof., pharmacy; Pharm.D. Univ. of Kentucky; specialty: pediatrics.

Letitia Naigles, assoc. prof., psychol.; Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania; specialty: child development and early language.

Lirio K. Negroni-Rodriguez, asst. prof., social work; Ph.D., Boston College; specialty: Puerto Rican studies.

Akiko Nishiyama, asst. prof., physiol. & neurobiol.; Ph.D., Niigata Univ.; specialty: molecular neuropathology/neurobiology.

Spiro Pavlopoulos, asst. research prof., pharmacy; B.Sc., Latrobe Univ.; specialty: medicinal chemistry.

Linda Shannon Pescatello, assoc. prof., allied health; Ph.D., UConn.; specialty: health promotion, health education, disease and disability prevention.

Jane Poulson, asst. prof., sociol.; Ph.D., City Univ. of New York; specialty: social organization, social movements, political science, race and gender.

Sadhana Puntambekar, asst. prof., ed. psychol.; Ph.D., Univ. of Sussex; specialty: cognitive studies, computing sciences.

Sharon Rallis, assoc. prof., ed. leadership; Ph.D., Harvard Univ.; specialty: educational administration, program evaluation.

Donna S. Ravin, asst. clin. prof., pharmacy; Pharm.D., URI; specialty: clinical pharmacy.

Jay Rich, asst. prof., business admin.; Ph.D., Univ. of Illinois; specialty: accounting.

Margaret Rubega, asst. prof., ecol. & evolutionary biol.; Ph.D., Univ. of Calif.; specialty: ornithology.

Sandra Schreffler, asst. prof., Spanish; Ph.D., Univ. of Florida; specialty: Spanish and linguistics.

Mark Schroeder, asst. clin. prof., law; J.D., UConn.; specialty: lawyering process.

Kristin Schwab, asst. prof., landscape archit.; M.L.A., Iowa State Univ.; specialty: sustainable landscape design, vernacular landscapes, outdoor play space design.

Lyle Scruggs, asst. prof., polit. sci.; Ph.D., Duke Univ.; specialty: comparative politics.

Blanca Silvestrini, prof., history; Ph.D., SUNY; specialty: Caribbean and Latin American History.

Louise B. Simmons, asst. prof., social work; Ph.D., MIT; specialty: urban and regional studies.

Annelie Skog, asst. prof., marine sci.; Ph.D., Univ. of Goteberg; specialty: marine chemistry.

Richard Sosis, asst. prof., anthropology; Ph.D., Univ. of New Mexico; specialty: behavioral ecology.

Whitney Tabor, asst. prof., psychol.; Ph.D., Stanford Univ.; connectionist models.

Hans Turley, asst. prof., English; Ph.D., Univ. of Washington; specialty: Restoration and the 18th century, gay and lesbian studies, English prose.

Kelly H. Uscategui, asst. prof., business admin.; Ph.D., Univ. of S. Carolina; specialty: marketing.

Jaci Van Heest, asst. prof., sports, leisure & ex. scis.; Ph.D., Michigan State Univ.; specialty: exercise physiology.

Yazhen Wang, assoc. prof., statistics; Ph.D., Univ.of Calif.-Berkeley; specialty: theory and analysis of wavelets.

Friedemann Weidauer, asst. prof., mod. & class. langs.; Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin; specialty: German language and culture.

Barrett Wells, asst. prof. in-residence, physics; Ph.D., Stanford Univ.; specialty: condensed matter.

Michael White, asst. prof., pharmacy; Pharm.D., Albany Coll.; specialty: critical care and cardiology.

Kimberley Ann Woo, asst. prof., curric. & instr.; Ed.D., Columbia Univ.; specialty: social studies education.

Thomas Wood, assoc. prof., chem. engin.; Ph.D., N. Carolina State Univ.; specialty: chemical engineering.

Bradley Wright, asst. prof., sociol.; Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin; specialty: organization.

Nissim Yonash, asst. prof., animal sci.; Ph.D., Hebrew Univ.; specialty: molecular aspects of molecular genetics as related to their productivity.

Quing Zhu, asst. prof., elec. & systems engin.; Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania; specialty: bioengineering.

Source: Dept. of Human Resources.
This list of full-time faculty appointments gives the information available at the time of going to press. We welcome news of staff appointments and any additional faculty appointments and will publish them in future issues of the Advance.