Appointments

The 2013-14 annual report on promotions and emeritus status is now available. This report lists faculty who were appointed to emeritus status since last year’s report or who were promoted to associate professor or professor or awarded tenure on July 1. Download the list....

Georgia Cowart, professor in the Department of Music, recently was named to a two-year term on the Board of Directors of the American Musicological Society. The American Musicological Society was founded in 1934. The society aims to advance scholarship in the various fields of music through researc...

Peter Bennett, associate professor in the Department of Music, was awarded a yearlong fellowship in France from the LE STUDIUM: Loire Valley Institute of Advanced Studies. Beginning in July 2015, Bennett will be working at Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance (the Center for Renaissance St...

Lisa Koops, associate professor in the Department of Music, was named to the editorial board of the Journal of Research in Music Education. Koops specializes in early childhood music, elementary general music and world music education. The Journal of Research in Music Education is a peer-reviewed, ...

Sophomore Peter Choi received national recognition at the Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda conference in June. Choi was elected the National North Central Region vice president for the 2014-15 academic year to represent the state and local chapters in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wis...

Lynn Singer, deputy provost and vice president of academic affairs and professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, pediatrics, psychiatry and psychology, was elected president of the Neurobehavioral Teratology Society (NBTS). NBTS focuses on studies of the developmental origins of nervous system d...

James R. Rowbottom, associate professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine, was appointed chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He had been the interim chai...

Suzanne Rivera, associate vice president for research, was selected to serve on the national board for the Council on Government Relations. Her term begins Aug. 1. Created in 1948, the Council on Governmental Relations is an association of research universities involved in the development of all ma...

Anant Madabhushi, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was selected to serve on editorial board for new Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine. The journal will publish high-quality, peer-reviewed ar...

Fabio Cominelli, professor of medicine and pathology, was appointed as chairperson of the National Institutes of Health Gastrointestinal Mucosal Pathobiology Study Section. His term runs from July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2016....