UW Trustees Approve Personnel Items

May 5, 2006 -- University of Wyoming trustees today (Friday) approved the following personnel items:

FACULTY APPOINTMENT
Kaijsa J. Calkins as assistant librarian with University Libraries. Calkins received a B.A. (2001) in liberal studies from the University of Washington, Bothell, Wash., and an M.L.S. (2004) from the University of Washington, Seattle.

PROMOTIONS TO PROFESSOR
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences -- Karen C. Williams.
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Department of English -- Susan L. Aronstein.
Department of Geology and Geophysics -- Carrick M. Eggleston.
Department of Music -- David J. Brinkman.
Department of Sociology -- C. Christian Ukaegbu.
Department of Statistics -- Richard C. Anderson-Sprecher.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering -- Brian F. Towler.
COLLEGE OF LAW -- Diane E. Courselle.
 
ACADEMIC PROFESSIONALS PROMOTIONS
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
Cooperative Extension Services -- Alexander M. Malcolm, associate extension educator.
Department of Plant Sciences -- Abdelouhab Mesbah, senior research scientist.
OUTREACH SCHOOL
Outreach Credit Programs -- Janet A. Bass, Lawrence A. Jansen, Jeanie R. Martinez, and Jeffrey C. Miller, all associate lecturers.

TENURE APPOINTMENTS WITH PROMOTIONS TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
Department of Molecular Biology -- David S. Fay.
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Department of Anthropology -- James C. Ahern.
Department of Chemistry -- David T. Anderson.
Department of Communication and Journalism -- Tracey M. Patton.
Department of Geology and Geophysics -- Kenneth G. Dueker.
Department of History -- Michael C. Brose.
Department of Music -- John Scott Turpen.
Department of Philosophy -- Franz-Peter Griesmaier.
Department of Statistics -- Timothy J. Robinson.
Department of Theatre and Dance -- Robert Michael Earl.
Women’s Studies Program -- Bonnie Sue Zare.
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Department of Educational Studies -- Allen W. Trent.
Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education -- Peter W. Moran.
COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
Department of Kinesiology and Health -- Roderick Todd Bartee.
School of Pharmacy -- Tracy D. Baher; Linda G. Martin.
COLLEGE OF LAW
James M. Delaney.

TENURE APPOINTMENTS WITH NO CHANGE IN RANK
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Department of Mechanical Engineering -- Dimitri J. Mavriplis, professor.

EXTENDED-TERM APPOINTMENTS WITH PROMOTION
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
American Heritage Center -- Anne Marie Lane, archivist.
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Cataloging Department -- Lori Terrill, associate librarian.

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONALS EXTENDED TERM APPOINTMENTS WITH PROMOTION
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
WyGISC -- Kenneth I. Driese, associate research scientist.
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences -- Suzanne Pelican, senior extension educator.
COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
Department of Chemistry -- Michael S. Sommer, associate lecturer.
Department of Modern and Classical Languages -- Patricia McLean, senior lecturer.
Department of Physics and Astronomy -- David R. Thayer, associate lecturer.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Department of Computer Science -- James S. Ward, associate lecturer.
Department of Mechanical Engineering -- Scott A. Morton, senior research scientist.
OUTREACH SCHOOL
Outreach Regional Offices -- Amy Lee McClure, associate lecturer.

FACULTY EXTENDED-TERM APPOINTMENTS WITH NO PROMOTION IN RANK
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
American Heritage Center -- Mark L. Shelstad, D. Claudia Thompson, associate archivists.
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Science Reference -- Michael L. Nelson, associate librarian.

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONALS EXTENDED-TERM APPOINTMENTS WITH NO PROMOTION IN RANK
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
Cooperative Extension Services -- Patricia Griffith, Hudson R. Hill, assistant extension educators; and Karen L. Panter, senior extension educator.
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences -- Mark T. Bittner, associate lecturer.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Department of Atmospheric Science -- Perry J. Wechsler, senior research scientist.
Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering -- Greg Kerr, associate lecturer.

Trustees also approved several tenure-track reappointments, extended-term appointments with promotion and extended-term-track reappointments.

Posted on Friday, May 05, 2006