Celebrating Faculty Excellence

On the afternoon of Monday, April 3, “A Celebration of Faculty Excellence” was held in the Waetjen Auditorium and Lobby of the Music and Communication Building at Cleveland State University. 

The annual celebration of faculty and librarian promotions was anchored by remarks from Cheryl Bracken, Ph.D., Vice Provost, Faculty Affairs and Development; Nigamanth Sridhar, Ph.D., Provost and Sr. Vice President for Academic Affairs, and CSU President Laura J. Bloomberg, Ph.D..

Faculty members and librarian (below) were then called to accept their awards.

Distinguished Faculty Award — Research

Valentin Böerner, Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences

J. Mark Souther, History

Distinguished Faculty Award — Service

Judith Ausherman, Health Science and Human Performance

Beth Ekelman, Occupational Therapy

Distinguished Faculty Award — Teaching

Karen Keptner, Occupational Therapy Karen McIntyre, Physical Therapy

Provost’s Service Award

Linda Quinn, Mathematics and Statistics

Provost’s Teaching Award

Sandra Chincholkar, Mathematics and Statistics

Promotion to Associate College Lecturer

Laurie Brown, Nursing

Steven Gubkin, Mathematics and Statistics

Marcus Schultz-Bergin, Philosophy and Comparative Religion

Candice Vander Weerdt, Management

Promotion to Associate Professor of Practice

Anita Gabrosek, Film and Media Arts

Michael Gallagher, Mechanical Engineering

Bogdan Kozul, Mechanical Engineering

Promotion to Senior College Lecturer

Brian Bailey, Music

Lydia Grebenyova, World Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Promotion to Senior Clinical Professor

Pamela Daiker-Middaugh, Law

Carole Heyward, Law

Doron Kalir, Law

Promotion to Librarian

Amanda Goodsett, Michael Schwartz Library

Tenure

Sathish Kumar, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

John Van Stan, Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences

Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure

Umut Celiker, Finance

Katherine Clonan-Roy, Curriculum and Foundations

Federico Galetto, Mathematics and Statistics

Benjamin Hoffman, Accounting

Weishi Jia, Accounting

Fengxia Zhu, Marketing

Promotion to Professor

Michael Baumgartner, Music

Kathy Curnow, Art and Design

Mark Holtzblatt, Accounting

Jane Keehan, Physical Therapy

Eddie Lam, Management

Julia Phillips, Counseling, Administration, Supervision and Adult Learning

Andrew Resnick, Physics

Mamadou Seck, Social Work

Andrew Slifkin, Psychology

Karen Sotiropoulos, History

Parthasarathy Srinivasan, Mathematics and Statistics

Rongjun Sun, Criminology and Sociology

Stephanie Webster, Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs

Congratulations to all on your outstanding achievements!