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University Welcomes Diverse Group This fall, the University welcomes nearly 50 new faculty members at Storrs and the regional campuses. Most were recruited prior to the early retirement incentive and fill vacancies created by other departures or, in a few cases, by newly created positions in areas of compelling need:
Enrique Alvarez, asst. prof., statistics; Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan; specialty: mathematical statistics Jonathan Bobaljik, assoc. prof., linguistics; Ph.D., MIT; specialty: linguistics Mary Bruno, asst.prof., in residence. molecular and cell biology; Ph.D., University of Connecticut; specialty: biochemistry Nirmalendo Chaudhuri, post doctoral fellow, mathematics; Ph.D, Indian Institute of Science; specialty: differential equations Simon Cheng, asst. prof., sociology; Ph.D; Casey Cobb, asst. prof., educational leadership; Ph.D., Arizona State University; specialty: education policy studies Craig Coleman, asst. clinical prof., pharmacy practice; Pharm.D., University of Connecticut; specialty: pharmacoeconomics Keith Conrad, asst. prof., mathematics; Ph.D., Harvard University; specialty: number theory Jun-Hong Cui, asst. prof., computer science and engineering; Ph.D., UCLA; specialty: computer science Roy D'Andrade, prof., anthropology; Ph.D., Harvard University; specialty: cognitive anthropology/quantitative methods Michael Dintenfass, assoc. prof., history; Ph.D., Columbia University; specialty: European history Fabienne Doucet, asst. prof., family studies; Ph.D., University of North Carolina- Greensborough; specialty: parent-child relationships Jennifer Ellis, asst. clinical prof., pharmacy practice; Pharm.D., University of Connecticut; specialty: pediatrics Harald Fischer, asst. prof., management department; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin- Madison; specialty: organizational theory/strategy Brent Gibson, asst. prof., family studies; Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Greensborough; specialty: elder family caregiving Carrie Graham, instructor, kinesiology; MA, Western Michigan University; specialty: athletic training Robert Gross, prof., history; Ph.D., Columbia University; specialty: early American history Jacqueline Kelleher, asst. research prof., educational psychology; Ph.D., University of Connecticut; specialty: cognition and instruction, evaluation Natalia Khoma, visiting asst. prof., music; Ph.D., Moscow Conservatory of Music; specialty: cello, chamber music Aggelos Kiayias, asst. prof., computer science and engineering; Ph.D., City University of New York; specialty: computer science Jeong-Ho Kim, asst. prof., civil and environmental engineering; Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; specialty: computational fracture mechanics J.Timothy Krusko, asst. prof. Army ROTC; BA, Stonehill College; specialty: personnel administration Chanyeong Kwak, asst. prof., nursing; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts; specialty: health policy Isabelle Lagadic, asst. prof., chemistry; Ph.D.; specialty: not available Lisa Larive, asst. clinical prof., pharmacy practice; Pharm.D., Wayne State University; specialty: critical care Ion Mandoiu, asst. prof., computer science and engineering; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology; specialty: computer science Martynas Manstavicius, post doctoral fellow, mathematics, Ph.D., Tufts University; specialty: probability theory/stochastic processes Alan Marcus, asst. prof., curriculum and instruction; Ph.D., Stanford University; specialty: secondary education Michael Morrell, asst. prof. of political science; Ph.D., Arizona State University; specialty: political theory and public opinion Mary Musgrave, prof., plant science; Ph.D., Duke University; specialty: plant physiology, space biology Olu Oguibe, assoc. prof., art and art history/African-American studies; Ph.D., University of London; specialty: African art history Vibeke Olson, visiting asst. prof., art and art history, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara; specialty: not available Igor Ovchinnikov, assoc. prof., molecular and cell biology; Ph.D., VNII Genetika, Moscow Russia; specialty: molecular biology Jeremy Pressman, asst. prof., political science; Ph.D., MIT; specialty: international relations Eric Rice, asst. prof., music department; Ph.D., Columbia University; specialty: music history/medieval, renaissance Helen Rozwadowski, asst. prof., Avery Point campus, history; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; specialty: maritime history, environmental history Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez, asst. prof., English department/Latino studies; Ph.D., UCLA; specialty: 20th-century American and Latino literature Edira Shieto, post doctoral fellow, mathematics; Ph.D., Scuola Normal Superiore di Pisa; specialty: non-linear analysis/elliptic partial differential equations David Solomon, visiting asst. prof., mathematics; Ph.D., Cornell University; specialty: not available Andras Szucs, asst. prof., aerospace studies; BA, University of Southern California; specialty: security operations Erin Terwilleger, post doctoral fellow, mathematics; Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia; specialty: harmonic analysis Robert Thayer, interim department head, music; Ph.D., University of Iowa; specialty: music education John Vernon, visiting asst. prof., finance; Ph.D., City University, London and University of Penn.; specialty: finance and healthcare Alex Wang, asst. prof., communication sciences; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; specialty: not available Robin Wittemore, asst. prof., nursing; Ph.D., Boston College; specialty: women with type 2 diabetes Richard Wilson, prof., anthropology; Ph.D., London School of Economics; specialty: human rights Susanne Wurmbrand, asst. prof., linguistics department; Ph.D., MIT; specialty: linguistics Zhang Zhongju, asst. prof., OPIM; Ph.D., University of Washington; specialty: information systems Shengli Zhou, asst. prof., electrical and computer engineering; Ph.D., University of Minnesota; specialty: wireless communications This list was supplied to the Advance by the Department of Human Resources. 
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