K-State awarding promotions, tenure to 45 faculty members

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News release prepared by: Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, 785-532-6415, ebarcomb@k-state.edu

Monday, April 9, 2007

K-STATE AWARDING PROMOTIONS, TENURE TO 45 FACULTY MEMBERS

MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University is awarding promotions to 44 faculty members and tenure to 23 faculty members.

Of those being promoted, 22 are becoming associate professors and 22 are becoming full professors. The promotions in rank and the granting of tenure were approved by Jon Wefald, K-State president. They go into effect July 1.

Faculty earning promotions to full professor include: Anindya Banerjee, computing and information sciences; Dana Britton, sociology, anthropology and social work; Glen Brown, art; Susan Brown, biology; Edward "Ted" Carey, horticulture, forestry and recreation resources; Louis Crane, mathematics; Brett Esry, physics; Roman Reddy Ganta, diagnostic medicine and pathobiology; Kevin Gwinner, marketing; James Hamilton, philosophy; Swinder Janda, marketing; Timothy Keane, landscape architecture and regional and community planning; Bradley Kramer, industrial and manufacturing systems engineering; Twig Marston, animal sciences and industry; Om Prakash, biochemistry; Raymond Rowland, diagnostic medicine and pathobiology; Silvia Sauter, modern languages; James Sherow, history; Charlene Simser, university libraries; David Stone, history; William Turnley Jr., management; and Kun Yan Zhu, entomology.

Faculty earning promotions to associate professor and tenure include: Soontae An, journalism and mass communications; Dale Askey, university libraries; Dale Bremer, horticulture, forestry, and recreation resources; Kathy Brockway, arts, sciences and business; Troy Brockway, aviation; Judith Collins, arts, sciences and business; Christopher Culbertson, chemistry; Sanjoy Das, electrical and computer engineering; Todd Easton, industrial and manufacturing systems engineering; Carolyn Ferguson, biology; Shawn Hutchinson, geography; Hyun Seung Jin, journalism and mass communications; Sara Kearns, university libraries; Richard McFarland II, marketing; Gerad Middendorf, sociology, anthropology and social work; Dunja Peric, civil engineering; Susan Rodgers, English; Dmitry Ryabogin, mathematics; Brett Sandercock, biology; Tracy Turner, economics; Donghai Wang, biological and agricultural engineering; and Young-Ok Yum, speech communication, theater and dance.

Faculty earning tenure include: William Dunn, associate professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering.