New faculty this fall surpass 120

By Anne Krapfl
August 27, 2015

The new faces on campus this fall don't belong just to students. Iowa State has hired 123 tenured or tenure-track faculty since last fall, all but about 20 arriving on campus in the last month.

The new faculty group features 97 assistant professors (79 percent), 11 associate professors (9 percent) and 15 full professors (12 percent), eight of whom were hired in an administrative role (chair, director or dean). The group includes both new positions and replacements for faculty who retired or resigned from the university in the past year.

About one-third (43) of the new faculty are in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, but all six other colleges hired between 10 and 20 faculty members. The School of Education had seven faculty hires, including director Marlene Strathe. Numerous departments across campus hired four or five tenured or tenure-track faculty since last fall.

"I'm very pleased with the hires we have made over the past year. Our outstanding faculty are among the key reasons why student demand for an Iowa State degree has reached unprecedented levels," said President Steven Leath. "Our faculty work extremely hard to fulfill our land-grant mission; and given our rapid growth, it's more important than ever that we continue our robust hiring initiative to lower our student-to-faculty ratio, increase diversity and ensure the faculty workload is reasonable and manageable.

"I look forward to the contributions from these new faculty members that will enhance our university," Leath added.

Senior vice president and provost Jonathan Wickert expressed his gratitude to department leaders for a second year of faculty hires totaling 100 or more.

"It's a lot of work to recruit, hire and successfully bring on board new faculty members, and some of our departments have had this assignment for several years," Wickert said. "The end result is a better university faculty, but the thanks really belongs at the departmental level where the hard work and diligence happen."

A clear picture of non-tenure track faculty numbers generally isn't available until October. Many of these faculty are on annual contracts and departments closely monitor enrollment projections during the spring and summer to hire the appropriate number of faculty.

By college: Tenured and tenure-eligible faculty hired since Jan. 1

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (13)

Faculty member	Rank	Department
James Adelman	Ast	Natural resource ecology and management
Donald Beermann	P, Chair	Animal science
Steven Bradbury	P	Natural resource ecology and management
John Crespi	P	Economics
Kathleen Hunt	Ast	Agricultural education and studies
Gabriel Lade	Ast	Economics
Dirk Maier	P	Agricultural and biosystems engineering
Melha Mellata	Ast	Food science and human nutrition
Bradley Miller	Ast	Agronomy
Ryan Smith	Ast	Entomology
Rodrigo Tarte	Ast	Animal science
Justin Walley	Ast	Plant pathology and microbiology
Wendong Zhang	Ast	Economics

College of Business (10)

Haozhe Chen	Asc	Supply chain and information systems
Aditya Gupta	Ast	Marketing
Florence Honore	Ast	Management
Michael Howe	Ast	Management
Sachin Modi	Asc	Supply chain and information systems
Tyler Morgan	Ast	Supply chain and information systems
Jose Antonio Rosa	P	Marketing
Tracy Turner	Asc	Finance
Jacquelyn Rees Ulmer	P, Chair	Supply chain and information systems
Lingyao (Ivy) Yuan	Ast	Supply chain and information systems

College of Design (12)

Betsy Barnhart	Ast	Industrial design
Ryan Clifford	Ast	Graphic design
Shelby Doyle	Ast	Architecture
Jennifer Drinkwater	Ast	Art and visual culture
Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock	Ast	Community and regional planning
Sara Hamideh	Ast	Community and regional planning
Kenneth McCown	P, Chair	Landscape architecture
Emily Morgan	Ast	Art and visual culture
Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness	Ast	Industrial design
Alenka Poplin	Ast	Community and regional planning
Nick Senske	Ast	Architecture
Youngme Seo	Ast	Community and regional planning

College of Engineering (20)

Benjamin Ahn	Ast	Aerospace engineering
Azadeh (Alice) Alipour	Ast	Civil, construction and environmental engineering
Ashley Buss	Ast	Civil, construction and environmental engineering
Peter Collins	Asc	Materials science and engineering
Jun Cui	Asc	Materials science and engineering
Neil Zhenqiang Gong	Ast	Electrical and computer engineering
Chinmay Hegde	Ast	Electrical and computer engineering
Adina Howe	Ast	Agricultural and biosystems engineering
Chao Hu	Ast	Mechanical engineering
Kaoru Ikuma	Ast	Civil, construction and environmental engineering
Jaime Juarez	Ast	Mechanical engineering
Ronald Leonard	Asc	Agricultural and biosystems engineering
Cameron MacKenzie	Ast	Industrial and manufacturing systems engineering
Thomas Mansell	Ast	Chemical and biological engineering
James Michael	Ast	Mechanical engineering
Juan Ren	Ast	Mechanical engineering
Behrouz Shafei-Pamsari	Ast	Civil, construction and environmental engineering
Mehari Tekeste	Ast	Agricultural and biosystems engineering
Peng Wei	Ast	Aerospace engineering
Wang Zhaoyu	Ast	Electrical and computer engineering

College of Human Sciences (13)

Lorenzo Baber	Asc	School of Education
Michael Bowman	Ast	School of Education
Julio Cammarota	Asc	School of Education
Ji Young Choi	Ast	Human development and family studies
Shannon Coleman	Ast	Food science and human nutrition
Ji-Yeong (Joann) I	Ast	School of Education
EunHa (Lena) Jeong	Ast	Apparel, events and hospitality management
Sarah Rodriguez	Ast	School of Education
Heather Rouse	Ast	Human development and family studies
Manali Sheth	Ast	School of Education
Marlene Strathe	P, Director	School of Education
Ching-Hui (Joan) Su	Ast	Apparel, events and hospitality management
Carl Weems	P, Chair	Human development and family studies

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (41)

Robbyn Anand	Ast	Chemistry
Jared Anderson	P	Chemistry
Emily Berg	Ast	Statistics
Jeremy Best	Ast	History
Sebastian Braun	Asc	Anthropology
Kyle Burgason	Ast	Sociology
Olga Chyzh	Ast	Political science/Statistics
Elena Cotos	Ast	English
Ranpal Dosanjh	Ast	Philosophy and religious studies
Somak Dutta	Ast	Statistics
Mohan Gupta	Ast	Genetics, development and cell biology
Steven Hall	Ast	Ecology, evolution and organismal biology
Jonas Hartwig	Ast	Mathematics
Jonathan Hassid	Ast	Political science
Tracy Heath	Ast	Ecology, evolution and organismal biology
David Herzog	Ast	Mathematics
Michael Christopher Low	Ast	History
Chaoqun Lu	Ast	Ecology, evolution and organismal biology
Monica Marsee	Asc	Psychology
Charles Nagle	Ast	World languages and cultures
Mark Nieman	Ast	Political science
Ann Oberhauser	P	Sociology
Jacqueline Reber	Ast	Geological and atmospheric sciences
Justin Remeselnik	Ast	English
Haldre Rogers	Ast	Ecology, evolution and organismal biology
Craig Rood	Ast	English
Aaron Rossini	Ast	Chemistry
Ivan Rudik	Ast	Economics
Amy Rutenberg	Ast	History
Farzad Sabzikar	Ast	Statistics
Jonathan Sharp	Ast	Music and theatre
Elizabeth Swanner Smith	Ast	Geological and atmospheric sciences
Christina Svec	Ast	Music and theatre
Geetu Tuteja	Ast	Genetics, development and cell biology
Vincenzo Venditti	Ast	Chemistry
Dara Wald	Ast	Greenlee School of Journalism and Communications
Xuefeng Wang	Ast	Physics and astronomy
Matthew Wetstein	Ast	Physics and astronomy
Kelly Winfrey	Ast	Greenlee School of Journalism and Communications
Jeremy Withers	Ast	English
YuYu Zhou	Ast	Geological and atmospheric sciences

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College of Veterinary Medicine (10)

Daniel Correia-Lima-Linhares	Ast	Veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine
Stefano Di Concetto	Ast	Veterinary clinical sciences
Tyler Dohlman	Ast	Veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine
Iddo Friedberg	Asc	Veterinary microbiology and preventive medicine
Chad Johannes	Ast	Veterinary clinical sciences
Mark Lyte	P	Veterinary microbiology and preventive medicine
Shannon McLeland	Ast	Veterinary pathology
Yuko Sato	Ast	Veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine
Laura Tonkin	Ast	Veterinary clinical sciences
Bailey Wilberts	Ast	Veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine

Intra-collegiate (3)

Colleges of Veterinary Medicine/Agriculture and Life Sciences

Troy Brick

Ast

Veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine/Animal science

Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences/Liberal Arts and Sciences

Chester Britt	P, Chair	Sociology/Anthropology
Joshua Rosenbloom	P, Chair	Economics

Ast   Assistant professor
Asc   Associate professor
P     Professor

New faculty this fall surpass 120

By college: Tenured and tenure-eligible faculty hired since Jan. 1

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (13)

College of Business (10)

College of Design (12)

College of Engineering (20)

College of Human Sciences (13)

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (41)

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College of Veterinary Medicine (10)

Intra-collegiate (3)

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