SIUC faculty promotions announced

Academic promotions have been awarded to 50 SIUC faculty members. Promotions will take effect with next year's contract.

Tenure awards, effective Aug. 16, were granted to all 37 assistant professors receiving promotions. Associate professors Patrick A. Rivers of allied health and Ken B. Anderson of geology also received tenure.

Here's a list of those who have moved up (grouped by rank, with academic units).

From associate professor to professor:

• Ken B. Anderson, geology
• Lizette R. Chevalier, civil and environmental engineering
• Dimitrios Kagaris, electrical and computer engineering
• Robert W. Kaps, aviation management and flight
• Michael J. Lydy, zoology
• John W. Nicklow, civil and environmental engineering
• Patrick A. Rivers, allied health
• David A. Rush, theater
• Theodore R. Weeks, history
• C. Anne Winston-Allen, foreign languages and literatures
• Todd A. Winters, animal science, food and nutrition
• MingQing Xiao, mathematics
• Bryan G. Young, plant, soil and agricultural systems

From assistant professor to associate professor:

• Andrew Balkansky, anthropology
• Getahun Benti, history
• Mary Bogumil, English
• Stephen L. Brown, health education and recreation
• Cindy G. Buys, law
• J. Howard Carter, library affairs
• Kevin Collins, allied health
• Christina Desai, library affairs
• Patrick Dilley, educational administration and higher education
• Ann R. Fischer, psychology
• Ann Fletcher, theater
• Qingfeng Ge, chemistry and biochemistry
• Boyd Goodson, chemistry and biochemistry
• J. Kent Hsiao, civil and environmental engineering
• Holly S. Hurlburt, history
• Kamal Ibrahim, zoology
• Matthew E. McCarroll, chemistry and biochemistry
• Scott McClurg, political science
• John P. McSorley, mathematics
• Namdar Mogharreban, computer science
• Shahram Rahimi, computer science
• Karen S. Renzaglia, plant biology
• Mandara D. Savage, technology
• Henri U. Schurz, mathematics
• Stephen C. Shih, information systems and applied technologies
• Sedonia Sipes, plant biology
• Shane Stadler, physics
• Cathryn M. Studak, architecture
• Dru E. Vratil, cinema and photography
• Kathryn Wagner, theater
• Dexter B. Wakefield, plant, soil and agricultural systems
• Haibo Wang, electrical and computer engineering
• Lichang Wang, chemistry and biochemistry
• Rebecca Weston, psychology
• Frank Wilhelm, chemistry and biochemistry
• Taeho Yoh, kinesiology
• Wei Zhang, electrical and computer engineering