Promotions Recognize Faculty Across Disciplines
Promotions Recognize Faculty Across the Disciplines
by Carol Brévart-Demm
3/18/2009
![]() Sara Hiebert Burch '79 |
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The Board of Managers recently approved the promotion of five members of the faculty from associate to full professor: Biologist Sara Hiebert Burch '79 studies hypometabolic states (hibernation and its short-term counterpart, daily torpor) in small birds and mammals.
![]() Ted Fernald |
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Linguist Ted Fernald is a semanticist interested in the distinction between individual and stage-level predicates, negative polarity items, generic sentences, definite and indefinite descriptions, and all things to do with Navajo syntax and semantics.
![]() Nora Johnson |
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English literature scholar Nora Johnson specializes in the Renaissance, particularly Shakespeare and theater history, and also teaches courses on Milton, comedy as a genre, 20th-century lesbian fiction, and other topics.
![]() Paul Rablen |
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Organic chemist Paul Rablen's laboratory research focuses on fundamental questions about the relationship between structure, stability, and reactivity in organic compounds, and on the mechanistic pathways of organic reactions.
![]() Patricia White |
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Film-and-media-studies scholar Patricia White is a graduate of Yale's first class of film studies majors and author or editor of three books on cinema-with one in progress on global women filmmakers.
![]() Catherine Crouch |
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Two faculty members were promoted from assistant to associate professor: Catherine Crouch, a physicist whose research involves the technique of microphotoluminescence, was promoted to associate professor of physics with continuous tenure.
![]() Jane Gillham |
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Jane Gillham, a psychologist whose major research and clinical interests are at the intersection of clinical psychology, developmental psychology, and education, was also promoted, in a nontenured position, from assistant to associate professor of psychology.