Pacific Faculty Awarded Tenure, Promotions, Sabbaticals

By 
Jenni Luckett

Fourteen members of the Pacific University faculty were granted indefinite tenure in 2021 after recommendation by personnel committees and approval by the university’s provost, president and Board of Trustees.

College of Arts & Sciences

Ian O’Loughlin
Aisling “Del” Quest

College of Business

Zhuoming Peng
Hyun Jeong Min

College of Health Professions

Andrew Bzowyckyj
Sarah Foidel
Allison Brandt
Dana Bates
M. Samantha Lewis
Marina Suzuki

College of Optometry

William Hefner
Amiee Ho
Michela Kenning
Hannah Shinoda

Faculty Promotions

An additional 14 faculty members received non-tenure promotions from assistant to associate professor or from associate to full professor:

Associate Professor

Danielle Backus
John Begert
Anita Cleven
Ryan Gibbard
Aaron Greer
Brian Wilkinson

Full Professor

Amy Coplen
Claudia Jacova Chenoweth
Rik Lemoncello
Melanie Petilla
Avasarala Deepa Rao
Rebecca Reisch
Sean Roush
Lisa Szefel

Sabbaticals

Pacific faculty members also have been granted sabbaticals for the 2021-2022 academic year, including:

College of Arts and Sciences

  • Michael Burch-Pesses, plans to conduct research in Canada that would result in a second edition of his book, “Canadian Band Music: A Qualitative Guide to Canadian Composers and Their Works for Band”
  • Lauren Chan, “Investigations of evolutionary divergence: population genomic and computation modeling approaches”
  • Deke Gunderson, “The Fernhill Wetland Water Treatment System: Investigation and Mitigation of Low Dissolved Oxygen Conditions and High pH in the Wetland”
  • Chris Lane, "Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis of Social Networks"
  • Nancy Neudauer, “Matriods in an International Research Community: generating new research and new researchers"
  • Ian O’Loughlin, “Transepistemic Inquiry”
  • Jann Purdy, Two Projects of Scholarship and Research on Global Learning
  • Chris Templeton, “Avian communication: song learning and dialect formation in temperate and tropical songbirds”
  • Enie Vaisburd, “Portraits of Jewish diversity in the US”

College of Education

  • Mark Bailey, The Nature of Learning Outdoors
  • Catherine Kim, I am Korean and American: Living With Two Languages
  • Mark Szymanski, Healthy Minds: Cultivating Mindfulness and Resilience in Pre-service Teachers
  • Karren Timmermans, Vision & Literacy

College of Health Professions

  • David K. Brown, Development and Evaluation of a Simulator for Behavioral Audiometry 
  • Lisa R. Christiansen, Role of Emotional Engagement in Burnout for Mental Health Providers
  • Shahana Koslofsky, Integrating Legislative Advocacy into Professional Psychology Training Programs
  • Theresa Lafavor, Analyzing and disseminating findings from NICHD funded R15 award 1 R15 HD096495-01 entitled, “Predictors of Positive Adaptation in High Risk and Trauma Impacted Youth: The Role of Executive Function and Regulation.”
  • Kristine Marcus, Enhancing Systematic Review Methodology Capabilities at CHP
  • Asani Seawell, Black Lives Matter Activism as Civic Engagement: Antecedents and Consequences for Individuals and Society

College of Optometry

  • JP Lowery, Development of a tablet-based App for Acuity/Contrast Testing of Non-verbal Patients
  • Caroline Ooley, Creating a virtual reality (VR) laboratory for the integrative teaching of Ocular Anatomy –A program enhancement
  • Lorne Yudcovitch, Development of Ocular Disease & Therapeutics Course Content and Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence in Ocular Disease Diagnosis

University Libraries

  • Rachel Arkoosh, Allied Health Student Information Needs through the Lens of Information Usage Patterns
Tuesday, March 9, 2021