LehighNow Volume 02, Issue 04

              LEHIGHNOW
October 23, 2001
Volume 2, Issue 4
Eighteen professors receive promotions,
while two are granted tenure
IN BRIEF
ON CAMPUS
New garage
open
The Campus Square
Parking Garage, open
since Aug. 24, is now
accessible for those
holding gray proximity
cards (usable also at the
Zoellner garage) and
university ID cards.
Entrance to the new
garage will continue to be
via Asa Drive, until
construction on the rest
of the complex is
complete.
Parking for faculty and
staff is reserved for
lower-level spaces with
faculty/staff signs, and
in the Gate No. 1 area,
which is straight ahead as
you enter from Asa
Drive. These areas are
reserved strictly for
faculty and staff from
7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
Reserved parking for
select Brodhead House
students is available 24
hours a day, seven days a
week, in the Gate No. 2
area.
The public can park in
Gate No. 1 from 4 p.m. to
7:30 a.m., Monday
through Friday, and on
weekends. The fee is $1.
After meters are installed, public parking
will be available on the
lower level for 25 cents an
hour.
Eighteen members of the
faculty have been promoted, and two professors
have been awarded tenure
at their current positions.
The promotions took effect
at the beginning of the fall
semester.
Hannah Stewart-
Gambino, professor of
political science, was
named associate dean of
the College of Arts and
Sciences.
Those promoted to the
rank of professor are Ward
Cates and Christine Cole,
education and human
services; Manoj
Chaudhury, chemical
engineering; John P.
Coulter, mechanical
engineering; Kenneth
Kraft, religion studies;
Anne Meltzer, earth and
environmental studies;
Nicola Tannenbaum,
sociology and anthropology; and Benjamin
Wright, religion studies.
Promoted to the rank of
associate professor with
tenure were Drew Francis,
theatre; Scott Gordon,
English; Erica Hoelscher,
theatre; Patricia Ingham,
English; Alexander
Levine, philosophy;
Michael Mendelson,
philosophy; and Weixian
Zhang, civil and environmental engineering.
Wojciech Misiolek,
materials science and
engineering and K.
Sivakumar, management
and marketing, were
awarded tenure at the rank
of associate professor.
Cates
Ward Cates, professor of
education and human
services, joined the faculty in
1991. A specialist in
instructional design and
software development, he
received the American
Educational Research
Association's Distinguished
Service Award in 1991 and
was named Outstanding
Reviewer for his professional
organization's research
journal, Educational Technology Research and Development,
in 2001. He earned both his
B.A. and Ed.D. from Duke
University.
Chaudhury
Manoj Chaudhury,
professor of chemical
engineering, joined the faculty
in 1993. Chaudhury specializes in surface science,
adhesion, friction, and
biocompatibility. He has
published about 70 papers in
peer-reviewed journals,
including five in Science, the
most prestigious journal of
its kind in the world.
Chaudhury, who has
received patents for several
inventions, was elected chair
of the 2002 Gordon Conference of the Science of
Adhesion. His research is
funded by several federal and
industrial agencies.
In 1986, Chaudhury was
awarded the Victor K. LaMer
Prize by the Colloid and
Surface Science division of
American Chemical Society
for authoring the most
distinguished Ph.D thesis. In
1988, he was a visiting
scholar at Harvard University.
Chaudhury received his B.S.
from the University of
Calcutta, and his M.S. and
Ph.D. from the State
University of New York at
Buffalo.
Cole
Christine Cole, professor
of education and human
services, joined the faculty in
1988. She specializes in self-
management and other
positive behavioral interventions for individuals with
behavioral and developmental disabilities.
In 1994, Cole co-wrote a
book with Edward S.
Shapiro, chair of the
department of education and
human services, titled
Behavior Change in the
Classroom: Self-Management
Interventions. Cole and
Shapiro recently received a
$1.5-million, five-year U.S.
Department of Education
grant to train school school
psychologists as consultants
for students with low-
incidence disabilities.
In 1998, Cole was named
the Class of '61 Endowed
Professor. She earned her
B.A. from St. Olaf College,
and her M.S. and Ph.D. from
the University of Wisconsin-
Madison.
Coulter
John P. Coulter, professor
of mechanical engineering
and mechanics, joined the
faculty in 1990. He specializes in material processing,
intelligent manufacturing
and smart materials.
Coulter has received wide
recognition for his teaching
and research. He has received
both the National Science
Foundation National Young
Investigator Award and
NSF's Presidential Faculty
Fellow Award. In 1998, he
was one of 83 young
engineers nationwide who
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