Convocation was a celebration of faculty excellence, accomplishments
Held at the Center for British and Irish Studies, the annual Fall Convocation and Awards Ceremony on Oct. 13 celebrated the remarkable achievements of 122 faculty members at 91Թ. The event recognized their outstanding contributions in the domains of teaching, scholarship, leadership and service. Notably, the ceremony highlighted the distinguished faculty who had recently attained tenure or promotion, as well as those who received the prestigious Provost’s Achievement Award.
Vice Provost Michele Moses and the Office of Faculty Affairs hosted this annual awards ceremony, in coordination with Chancellor Philip DiStefano and Provost Russell Moore, who opened the event with welcoming remarks, highlighting the global impact and importance of 91Թ faculty in fostering student success and academic excellence.
Below is a list of this year's awardees.
Provost’s Faculty Achievement Awards
Pre-tenure faculty
Tanya Alderete, Integrative Physiology, for her research article demonstrating the health effects of environmental toxicants such as air pollution on the human gut microbiome
Kyri Baker, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering, for her article titled “Emulating AC OPF Solvers with Neural Networks”.
Benjamin Shear, Education, for his publication titled “Causal Inference and COVID: Contrasting Methods for Evaluating Pandemic Impacts Using State Assessments”
Rui Zhang, Business, for his article, “Influence Maximization with Latency Requirements on Social Networks”
Post-tenure faculty
Taylor Barton, Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering, for her series of papers in the area of radio frequency (RF) and microwave active circuit design
Nicole Lovenduski, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, for her set of papers published from 2007 to 2019 that focus on how the Southern Oceans absorb CO2
Samira Mehta, Women & Gender Studies, for her body of work in the areas of Jewish American culture, race and sexuality since World War II, with a focus on interfaith and mixed-race families
Greg Rieker, Mechanical Engineering, for his body of work on laser-based sensing controls for environmental applications
Christophe Spaenjers, Business, his body of work on alternative investments and price formation in the markets for “real” assets
Faculty receiving tenure
Asaf Bernstein, Business
L. Cinnamon Bidwell, Psychology & Neuroscience
Michael A. Calkins, Physics
Jeffrey C. Cameron, Biochemistry
Jeronimo Carballo, Economics
David M. Ciplet, Environmental Studies
Torin K. Clark, Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Sherri M. Cook, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Lisa A. Corwin, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Emiliano Dall'Anese, Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering
Annette de Stecher, Art & Art History
Robin J. Deeley, Mathematics
Xiaoyun Ding, Mechanical Engineering
David F. Drake, Business
Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara, University Libraries
John Farnsworth, Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Iskra Fileva, Philosophy
Jolene Fisher, Advertising, Public Relations & Media Design
Jerome M. Fox, Chemical & Biological Engineering
Stacy R. Gilbert, University Libraries
Christoffer R. Heckman, Computer Science
Adam Holewinski, Chemical & Biological Engineering
Roselinde H. Kaiser, Psychology & Neuroscience
Adam F. Kowalski, Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences
Daniel B. Larremore, Computer Science
Jingchun Li, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Nathan T. Marshall, Business
Geoffrey Marslett, Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts
Adam McCloskey, Economics
Orit Peleg, Computer Science
Erik Radio, University Libraries
Jeremy Reger, Music
Colleen E. Reid, Geography
Shawhin Roudbari, Environmental Design
Natasha Shrikant, Communication
Scott K. Shriver, Business
Kathryn Elaine Snell, Geological Sciences
Kyle J. Thomas, Sociology
Ashutosh Trivedi, Computer Science
Eric Alan Vance, Applied Mathematics
Marina E. Vance, Mechanical Engineering
Nicholas Villanueva, Ethnic Studies
Helanius J. Wilkins, Theatre & Dance
Eric Wustrow, Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering
Faculty hired with tenure
Daniel E. Acuña, Computer Science
Steven Ayer, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Amir Behzadan, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Roland Benoit, Psychology & Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Science
Aditi S. Bhaskar, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Theodora Chaspari, Computer Science
Rosemary Cowell, Psychology & Neuroscience
Shamika Dalton, University Libraries, Law
Sharon DeWitte, Anthropology, Institute of Behavioral Science
Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Law
David Huber, Psychology & Neuroscience
Sarah Jackson, Anthropology
Eric Jones, Anthropology
Vijay Khatri, Business
Kelly Parkes, Music
Evan Peck, Information Science
Chandra Reynolds, Psychology & Neuroscience, Institute of Behavioral Genetics
Daria Roithmayr, Law
Wadie Said, Law
Nancy J. Stevens, Anthropology, CU Museum of Natural History
Jillian Turanovic, Sociology, Institute of Behavioral Science
Faculty promoted to full professor
Francisca Antman, Economics
Holly Barnard, Geography
Nicholas Carthy, Music
John Anthony Cookson, Business
Nikolaus J. Correll, Computer Science
Oliver DeWolfe, Physics
Chuan He, Business
Jerry Jacka, Anthropology
Carla Jones, Anthropology
Joseph H. Jupille, Political Science
Joel L. Kaar, Chemical & Biological Engineering
Margot E. Kaminski, Law
Kai Larsen, Business
Jeanne Liotta, Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts
Christopher Lowry, Integrative Physiology
Julie Lundquist, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
Alexia Brunet Marks, Law
Margaret McDonald, Music
Elizabeth J. Meyer, Education
Claire Monteleoni, Computer Science
Jeffrey C. Nytch, Music
Cecilia J. Pang, Theatre & Dance
David C. Pyrooz, Sociology
Cindy Anne Regal, Physics
Caroline B. Sinkinson, University Libraries
Anand Edward Sokhey, Political Science
Douglas Spencer, Law
Faculty promoted to principal instructor
Amy Bauer, Law
Daniel Brown, Business
Francisco Castro, Mechanical Engineering
Janet Lynn Donavan, Political Science
Emily Edwards, Business
Hardy Fredricksmeyer, Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society
David Gross, Business
Ruth E. Heisler, Integrative Physiology
Marianne Holbert, Environmental Design
Derek Kiernan-Johnson, Law
Sangbok Kim, Asian Languages & Civilizations
Jeffrey Knutsen, Mechanical Engineering
Mary K. Long, Spanish & Portuguese
Jade Polizzi, Environmental Design
Shalom Ruben, Mechanical Engineering
Stacy Lynn Schulte, Environmental Design
Trudy Schwartz, Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Michael A. Soltys, General Engineering
Gabrielle Stafford, Law
Todd Stafford, Law
Harry Mohr Starn, Business