The faculty welcomed 32 new colleagues this week. They include (with the remainder to be noted in future editions of the Chronicle):
ANTHROPOLOGY: Ari Gandsman, visiting professor, holds a Ph.D. from McGill University, Montreal, where he worked as an instructor and teaching assistant and was president of the Anthropology Graduate Students Association. He has lectured and presented at conferences around the world.
BIOLOGY: Nicole Teodosiou, assistant professor, earned her Ph.D. in genetics from Yale University School of Medicine. She was an assistant research professor of biology at Bowdoin College and a research assistant at Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and at the Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania.
CHEMISTRY: Susan Kohler, visiting assistant professor, holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from University of California, Berkeley. She has done postdoctoral work there and at the National Cancer Institute and Freie Universitat Berlin, West Germany. She has worked as a senior scientist at General Electric Healthcare Technologies; an advanced instrumentation specialist at Wellesley College and a scientist for Hewlett Packard Company. She has received numerous independent research grants and has published widely. K. Amanda Misner, visiting assistant professor, earned her Ph.D. in polymer science and engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has a variety of research, publication and presentation experience. Her teaching experience includes supervising summer research for the university’s Polymer Science and Engineering Outreach Program.
COMPUTER SCIENCE: Kristina Striegnitz, assistant professor, was jointly awarded a Ph.D. by the Saarland University and the University Henri Poincaré Nancy 1. She has taught at Northwestern University and Saarland and held numerous research assistant and internship positions. She is co-author of the book, “Learn Prolog Now!” and of numerous book chapters and journal articles.
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING: Helen Hanson ’83 assistant professor, earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University and conducted her postdoctoral fellowship at MIT. She has conducted research at MIT, Sensimetrics Corporation, Harvard’s Robotics Laboratory and Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba City, Japan. A member of the Acoustical Society of America, she has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters and conference papers.
ENGLISH: Claire Bracken, visiting instructor, earned her Ph.D. from University College Dublin, where she was awarded a one-year teaching fellowship from the College Arts and Celtic Studies. She has taught many courses in Irish studies, is co-founder of an Irish women’s studies postgraduate network and has a range of publication and presentation experience. Anastasia Pease, visiting assistant professor, earned a D.A. in humanistic studies, English/Russian, from the University at Albany. She is program director of the Michael S. Rapaport ’59 Ethics Across the Curriculum Initiative at Union. She has a range of teaching, translation and publication experience. Brian Glover, visiting assistant professor, earned a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia with a dissertation titled, "The Public Sphere and its Discontents Formal Nostalgia, 1709-1785.” He taught numerous courses at UVA. His teaching interests include 18th century literature n Britain, the history of the novel, biography and autobiography, and ecocriticism. Katherine Lynes, who was a visiting assistant professor at Union last year, has joined the faculty as an assistant professor. Lynes earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University, where she held numerous teaching and administrative positions.