22 Mines faculty awarded promotion and tenure

Twenty-two Colorado School of Mines faculty members who were awarded promotion and/or tenure were recognized at the annual faculty awards celebration held April 24.

Faculty receiving promotion and tenure

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

  • Cecilia Diniz Behn, tenure and promotion to associate professor
  • Karin Liederman Gregg, tenure and promotion to associate professor

Chemical and Biological Engineering

  • Christopher Higgins, promotion to professor
  • Melissa Krebs, tenure and promotion to associate professor

Chemistry

  • Alan Sellinger, promotion to professor

Computer Science

  • Qi Han, promotion to professor
  • Christopher Painter-Wakefield, promotion to teaching professor
  • Bo Wu, tenure and promotion to associate professor
  • Dejun Yang, tenure and promotion to associate professor

Economics and Business

  • Becky Lafrancois, promotion to teaching professor

Electrical Engineering

  • Michael Wakin, promotion to professor

Geology and Geological Engineering

  • Zhaoshan Chang, tenure

Geophysics

  • Andrei Swidinsky, tenure and promotion to associate professor

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

  • Jonathan Cullison, promotion to teaching professor
  • Paula Farca, promotion to teaching professor
  • Jon Leydens, promotion to professor

Mechanical Engineering

  • Steven DeCaluwe, tenure and promotion to associate professor
  • Garritt Tucker, tenure and promotion to associate professor
  • Xiaoli Zhang, tenure and promotion to associate professor

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

  • Amy Clarke, tenure
  • Kip Findley, promotion to professor

Petroleum Engineering

  • Luis Zerpa, tenure and promotion to associate professor

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