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The following faculty were promoted and/or tenured effective at the beginning of the 2015-2016 academic year, Provost and Senior Vice President Chukuka S. Enwemeka announced.

Promoted to Professor

• Farid Abdel-Nour – Political Science
• Trent Biggs – Geography
• Denitsa Bliznakova – Theatre, Television and Film
• Heather Corliss - Graduate School of Public Health (and Tenured)
• Robert Edwards – Computer Science
• Patricia Hatch – Counseling and School Psychology
• Donald  (D. J.) Hopkins - Theatre, Television and Film
• Samuel Kassegne – Mechanical Engineering
• Rebecca Lewison – Biology
• Hala Madanat – Graduate School of Public Health
• Pascale Marcelli – Geography
• Gregorio Ponce – Teacher Education/Imperial Valley Campus
• Amy Randel – Management
• Todd Rewoldt – Music and Dance
• Betty Samraj – Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
• Leslie Seiters – Music and Dance
• Elizabeth Waters – Biology
• Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu - Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
• Maria Zuniga – Social Work (and Tenured)
• Tao Xie – Computer Science

Promoted to Associate Professor and Tenured

• Amirhossein Alimohammad – Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Thais da Costa Alves – Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
• Katina Henrike Blumenfeld - Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
• Salvador Espinosa – Public Affairs
• Shirin Hooshmand-Yazdi - Exercise and Nutritional Sciences
• Katina Lambros Ortega - Counseling and School Psychology
• Jeremy Long – Biology
• Robert Meffe - Theatre, Television and Film
• Paul Minifee - Rhetoric and Writing Studies
• Walter Penrose, Jr. – History
• Melody Sadler – Psychology
• Allison Vaughn – Psychology