Wichita State celebrates faculty at Tenure and Promotion Awards

Wichita State University celebrates the following faculty members who were recognized at the Tenure and Promotion Awards ceremony April 21:

  • W. Frank Barton School of Business:
    • Tenure awardees:
      • Abigail Devereaux, associate professor, economics
      • Ross Gruetzemacher, associate professor, FREDS
      • Andrea Lynn Matthews, associate professor, marketing
      • Smita Srivastava, associate professor, management
      • Xiaoyang Zhu, associate professor, economics
      • Alexander Ziegler, associate professor, marketing
    • Non-tenure track awardees:
      • Michael Flores, senior educator, accounting
      • Kate Kung‑McIntyre, senior educator, management
  • College of Education:
    • Tenure awardees:
      • Jason Li, professor, CLES
      • Lindsay Luinstra, associate professor, HPS
    • Non-tenure track awardees:
      • Jill Wood, associate educator, TALS
  • College of Engineering:
    • Tenure awardees:
      • Yanwu Ding, professor, electrical and computer engineering
      • Atri Dutta, professor, aerospace engineering
      • Deepak Gupta, professor, industrial, systems and manufacturing engineering
      • Hyuck Kwon, professor, electrical and computer engineering
      • Bayram Yildirim, professor, industrial, systems and manufacturing engineering
    • Non-tenure track awardees:
      • Gary Brooking, teaching professor, applied engineering
  • College of Fine Arts:
    • Tenure awardees:
      • Timothy Jones, associate professor, music
      • Claudia Pederson, professor, art and design
      • Gerald “Jerry” Scholl, professor, music
      • Timothy Shade, professor, music
      • Leonid Shukaev, professor, music
    • Non-tenure track awardees:
      • Melissa Penkava Koza, associate teaching professor, performing arts
      • Robert Thomas, associate teaching professor, digital arts
      • Sabrina Vasquez, senior educator, performing arts
  • College of Health Professions:
    • Tenure awardees:
      • Erin O’Bryan, associate professor, communication sciences and disorders
    • Non-tenure track awardees:
      • Laurie Alloway, teaching professor, medical laboratory sciences
      • Christopher Dudley, associate clinical professor, physician assistant
      • Candance Grant, associate educator, nursing
      • Melissa Vagts, clinical professor, communication sciences and disorders
      • Evan Ohlman, associate clinical professor, physician assistant
      • Donna Robinson, teaching professor, nursing
      • Elizabeth Tew, associate teaching professor, physical therapy
  • Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:
    • Tenure awardees:
      • Jim Bann, professor, chemistry
      • Chase Billingham, professor, sociology
      • William Groutas, professor, chemistry
      • Jodie Hertzog, professor, sociology
      • Twyla Hill, professor, sociology
      • Rannfrid Lasine-Thelle, professor, history
      • Quan Lei, associate professor, psychology
      • Mathew Muether, professor, physics
      • Mohamed Nasser, associate professor, mathematics
      • Brigitte Roussel, professor, modern and classical languages and literatures
      • Xiaoheng Wang, associate professor, health and wellness services
    • Non-tenure track awardees:
      • Rachel Heckman, senior educator, mathematics
      • Kerry Jones, teaching professor, English