Features

New Faculty Faces

By Marya Barlow

Authors, award-winners, first-generation college grads, children of migrant farmworkers, a veteran nurse/attorney, a Harvard marine biologist, a software entrepreneur, and a new Computer Science program chair are among the new faculty members welcomed this fall to CI. Meet the 17 new faculty hires:

Susan Andrzejewski
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Ph.D., Social Psychology
Northeastern University
2009

Ahmed Awad
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., Chemical Functions in Biosystems
Ulm University, Germany
2004

Selenne Banuelos
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics
University of Southern California
2013

Matthew Campbell
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., Psychology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2006

Nien-Tsu Chen
Assistant Professor of Health Communication
Ph.D., Communication
University of Southern California
2013

Michelle Dean-Lorenzini
Assistant Professor of Special Education
Ph.D., Special Education
University of California, Los Angeles
2013

Geoffrey Dilly
Assistant Professor of Biology
Ph.D., Biology—Marine Physiology
Harvard University
2012

Cynthia Flores
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Mathematics
University of California, Santa Barbara
2014

Colleen Harris-Keith
Assistant Librarian
Ph.D., Education/LIS
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
2014

Margarita Lopez
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Spanish/Chicano Studies
University of California, Irvine
2007

Jennie Luna
Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies
Ph.D., Native American Studies
University of California, Davis
2012

Carol Mack
Associate Professor of Health Sciences
Ph.D., Nursing
University of California, Los Angeles
1998

Colleen Nevins
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Ph.D., Nursing
Western University of Health Sciences
2013

Ekin Pehlivan Yalcin
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Ph.D., Communication
Bentley University
2012

Michael Soltys
Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., Computational Complexity and Logic
University of Toronto
2001

Brian Thoms
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., Management Information Systems and Technology
Claremont Graduate University
2009

Bryan Tomlin
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Economics
University of California, San Diego
2010