by Peggy Frazier and Amanda Martin
new faculty handbook
The Office of Academic Affairs completed the first edition of the UW Bothell New Faculty Handbook in June. This resource is available both electronically and in-print, and will be used to help new faculty members transition to the UW Bothell community. The Handbook will be updated annually each Spring Quarter, and feedback is always welcome.
The New Faculty Handbook is available in PDF form here.
Please send all comments, suggestions and corrections to vcaa@uwb.edu.
new faculty for 2010-2011
To serve our growing campus community and support the development of new and innovative programs, UW Bothell recently conducted national searches for 23 new faculty positions.
Search committees used multiple strategies to ensure nation-wide visibility and develop strong candidate pools reflecting our campus commitment to diversity. Strategies included an advertising contract with Inside Higher Ed, an online source for national higher education recruitment and news. In addition, we contracted with the Minority Faculty Applicant Database to provide monthly notifications of our faculty positions to its minority faculty registrants and partner institutions. These efforts contributed to outstanding applicant pools and nearly 60 candidate visits over the past year.
As a result of these successful searches, we look forward to welcoming the following new faculty members in Autumn 2010:
Business:
Valerie Li, Assistant Professor in Accounting/Bellevue
MBA; Deanna Kennedy, Assistant Professor in Operations
Management/Bellevue MBA; Tayfun Keskin, Assistant Professor in
Management Information Systems/Bellevue MBA; Benjamin Galvin, Assistant Professor in Organizational Behavior; Walter Hutchens, Lecturer in
International Business
CUSP:
Andrew Abian, Lecturer in Mathematics; Kristine Kellejian, Lecturer in
Rhetoric/Composition
CSS: Hazeline Asuncion, Assistant
Professor in Computer Systems & Software Engineering, David Socha, Assistant Professor in Computer Systems & Software Engineering
Education: Wayne Au,
Assistant Professor in Social Studies Education; Allison Hintz,
Assistant Professor in Mathematics/Science Education
IAS: Johanna Crane, Assistant
Professor in Science and Technology Studies; Santiago Lopez, Assistant
Professor in Geographic Information Systems; Gwen Ottinger, Assistant Professor in Science and
Technology Studies; Jin-Kyu Jung, Assistant Professor in Geographic
Information Systems
Nursing: Mabel Ezeonwu, Assistant Professor for a Public Health Minor; Christopher
Wade, Assistant Professor for a Public Health Minor; Jerelyn Resnick,
Senior Lecturer in Health Studies; Beth Madison, Senior Lecturer in Health Studies; Jamie Shirley, Lecturer in Health Studies
S&T: Tai-Chang
Chen, Lecturer in Electrical Engineering; Kristina Hillesland, Assistant Professor in Biochemistry/Microbiology; Eric Salathe, Assistant Professor in Climate Science
Academic Services: David
Goldstein, TLC Director and Senior Lecturer; Young-Kyung Min, Lecturer for
ELL/Multicultural Writing
*Updated 9/16/2010
welcome, new faculty for 2009-2010!
Fall 2009- Alexandre
Barchechat, Lecturer, IAS, is a math lecturer for CUSP
and IAS. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of
California, Davis and was a postdoctoral fellow at Tulane University,
New Orleans, in low-dimensional topology. In the past couple of years,
Alex's focus has shifted from math research to math teaching methods.
His classes are centered around collaborative work, interdisciplinarity
and quantitative reasoning.
- Arnold Berger, Associate Professor,
Science and Technology, received his B.S. and Ph.D. from
Cornell University, and served most recently as a Senior Lecturer in
UW Bothell's CSS Program. Before coming to UW Bothell, he was Director of R&D
at Applied Microsystems Corporation, a manufacturer of hardware and
software tools for embedded systems development. He has also served as
the Development Tools Manager at Advanced Micro Devices Inc., in Austin,
Texas and as an R&D Project Manager for Hewlett-Packard Corporation
in Colorado Springs, CO. At HP, he led the team that built the Teramac,
a one million logical gate reconfigurable hardware computing machine.
An avid cyclist, Arnie bicycles to UW Bothell from his home on the
Samammish Plateau. Arnie's research interests include
applications of reconfigurable computing to embedded systems and
event-based software simulation in embedded systems. He is the author of
two books:
- Tadesse Ghirmai,
Lecturer, Science and Technology, received his Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University in New York. For Tadesse, teaching is about piquing curiosity, raising enthusiasm and
ultimately inspiring passion in his students. His preferred style of
teaching is an interactive format in which students have full
participation in the class. Such a teaching environment allows one to
continually gauge the understanding of the students and adjust to the
feedback they provide. In engineering, the interest of students can be
energized by explaining abstract concepts and principles through
analogies and examples, and by relating complex topics to real world
problems. It is his observation that supporting theory classes with
problem-solving sessions, laboratory classes and real-world projects are
very helpful for students to gain a solid understanding of the subject
matter.
Tadesse's research interest is in the areas of signal
processing and communications, and specifically in statistical signal
processing techniques for parameter estimation, signal detection and
adaptive filtering. He has worked in wireless communications in the
areas of channel estimation, synchronization and closed-loop MIMO.
- John
Godek, Lecturer, Business, obtained a Ph.D. in Marketing and a
M.S. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, an MBA from the
University of Houston - Clear Lake, and a B.S. in Management from the
U.S. Coast Guard Academy. In addition to teaching Marketing in the
Business Program, John is the Research Director for the Center for
Serious Play. He previously taught Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the
University of Oregon, and Leadership and Management at the U.S. Coast
Guard Academy. John's research interests include consumer and
managerial decision making, with special emphasis on identifying the
influence of firms' interactive marketing efforts on decision processes
and choices. His research has been published in the Journal of
Consumer Research, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision
Processes.
Prior to earning his Ph.D., he served in the U.S.
Coast Guard for over ten years and founded a successful internet
start-up.
Winter
2010
- Kathleen
D. Noble, Professor, Science and Technology, recently
transferred from the Department of Women's Studies in the College of Arts
and Science at the UW Seattle. Kate is Professor of Science and
Technology, and a licensed clinical and counseling psychologist. From
2000-2008 she directed the Robinson Center for Young Scholars at the UW
Seattle. She is the author of numerous books and research articles about
the psychological development of gifted women, spiritual intelligence,
the ways in which intelligence and talent shape female lives in ways
that are distinct from males, and the efficacy of early entrance to
college and university. Her current research focuses on spirituality and
psychological health, and the evolution of beliefs about consciousness
and reality.