Iowa State welcomed 72 new faculty to campus this semester. The diverse group, which reflects hires since July 1, features nearly a dozen already tenured faculty members and the rest distributed among term and tenure-track appointments.
"It's a really good cohort with each member contributing to Iowa State's mission in a different way," said associate provost for faculty Dawn Bratsch-Prince. "If we're paying attention to our strategic plan, we have to have excellent teaching, we have to have strong research and we have to lead the way on innovative solutions for our state and our world."
Departments' hiring needs vary greatly across the university and within colleges, she said. Some are looking to build their tenure ranks, some value area practitioners who bring immediate real-world skills and experiences to their students, others need to keep pace with steady enrollment growths. Each fall's incoming faculty group also reflects the shifts in enrollment as student demand for academic majors changes.
She said two initiatives funded with initial 2022-31 strategic plan money -- strategic faculty hires and degrees of the future -- are starting to impact faculty hiring across the university. But decisions announced last spring about six new degree programs and 16 faculty positions that will build Iowa State's research capacity in emerging areas will greatly impact the next round of faculty hires, for fall 2024.
Selected degrees of the future include new bachelor's programs in digital storytelling, precision agriculture, game design and integrated health sciences, and master's programs in digital health, and finance and technology. Developing, proposing and getting approval for new degree programs all the way through the state Board of Regents process takes time, but there will be others.
For now, she said, "We have high hopes for the degree programs that are on the table. Depending on enrollments, there may be more hiring for those in the future."
The strategic faculty hires will be shared among six colleges and focus on four emerging research areas: critical materials, climate science and sustainability, cybersecurity and human health initiatives. Those new faculty could begin arriving this winter, but most will start next August.
A $2.8 million directive from the 2023 Iowa Legislature to expand degree and certificate programs in high-demand, STEM-related disciplines that support the state's workforce will mostly support current faculty and new initiatives, Bratsch-Prince said. The funds must be spent by the end of June 2024, which limits how they can be used. But Iowa State has requested an additional $10 million to continue and expand this effort in the next fiscal year, and STEM workforce development could be another factor in future faculty hires, she said.
Faculty hires since mid-June, by college
Agriculture and Life Sciences (6)
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Name |
Position |
Department |
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David Rosero |
Assistant professor |
Animal science |
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Alan Culbertson |
Assistant professor |
Biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology |
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Rabail Chandio |
Assistant professor |
Economics |
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Andres Cuadros-Menaca |
Assistant teaching professor |
Economics |
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Stacey Noe |
Assistant professor of practice |
Economics |
|
Tina Krug |
Assistant teaching professor |
Horticulture |
Ivy College of Business (9)
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Name |
Position |
Department |
|
Todd Ortberg |
Professor of practice |
Finance |
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Raymond Kim |
Assistant professor |
Information systems and business analytics |
|
Andy Snook |
Lecturer |
Information systems and business analytics |
|
John Meyer |
Associate professor of practice |
Management and entrepreneurship |
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Kristie Moergen |
Assistant professor |
Management and entrepreneurship |
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Sophie Pychlau |
Assistant professor |
Management and entrepreneurship |
|
Peg Mattison |
Lecturer |
Marketing |
|
Herbert Peacock |
Lecturer |
Marketing |
|
Micah Marzolf |
Assistant professor |
Supply chain management |
College of Design (14)
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Name |
Position |
Department |
|
Merate Barakat |
Associate professor |
Architecture |
|
Donovan Bunn |
Assistant professor of practice |
Architecture |
|
Justin Burnham |
Associate professor of practice |
Architecture |
|
Emily Guo |
Assistant teaching professor |
Architecture |
|
Liz Koerner |
Lecturer |
Art and visual culture |
|
Peter Scheidt |
Assistant professor |
Art and visual culture |
|
Sheena Thomas |
Lecturer |
Art and visual culture |
|
Mike Macri |
Associate professor of practice |
Community and regional planning |
|
Patrick Finley |
Assistant professor |
Graphic design |
|
Kimberly Maher |
Assistant teaching professor |
Graphic design |
|
Aaron Yang |
Assistant professor |
Graphic design |
|
Jason Cornaro |
Assistant professor of practice |
Industrial design |
|
Bruno Oro |
Assistant professor |
Industrial design |
|
Kotaro Nakamura |
Department chair |
Interior design |
College of Engineering (21)
|
Name |
Position |
Department |
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Christian Chilan |
Assistant teaching professor |
Aerospace engineering |
|
Abhishek Halder |
Associate professor |
Aerospace engineering |
|
Brandon Runnels |
Associate professor |
Aerospace engineering |
|
Simone Servadio |
Assistant professor |
Aerospace engineering |
|
Wenjie Xia |
Associate professor |
Aerospace engineering |
|
Ryan McGehee |
Assistant professor |
Agricultural and biosystems engineering |
|
Landon Streit |
Lecturer |
Civil, construction and environmental engineering |
|
Yuderka Trinidad |
Assistant professor |
Civil, construction and environmental engineering |
|
Colin Christy |
Research assistant professor |
Electrical and computer engineering |
|
Bai Cui |
Assistant professor |
Electrical and computer engineering |
|
Esmat Farzana |
Assistant professor |
Electrical and computer engineering |
|
Shuang Li |
Assistant professor |
Electrical and computer engineering |
|
Jakob Hamilton |
Assistant professor |
Industrial and manufacturing systems engineering |
|
Bin Li |
Associate professor |
Industrial and manufacturing systems engineering |
|
Jundi Liu |
Assistant professor |
Industrial and manufacturing systems engineering |
|
Michelle Stallard |
Assistant teaching professor |
Industrial and manufacturing systems engineering |
|
Patrick Johnson |
Professor |
Materials science and engineering |
|
Abhay Bangalore Ramachandra |
Assistant professor |
Mechanical engineering |
|
Saikat Mukherjee |
Assistant professor |
Mechanical engineering |
|
Tuhin Mukherjee |
Assistant professor |
Mechanical engineering |
|
Sougata Roy |
Assistant professor |
Mechanical engineering |
College of Human Sciences (5)
|
Name |
Position |
Department |
|
Pamela Dodge |
Assistant teaching professor |
School of Education |
|
Ty Smeins |
Lecturer |
School of Education |
|
Charles Chaffin |
Professor of practice |
Human development and family studies |
|
Tricia Giovacco Johnson |
Associate professor |
Human development and family studies |
|
Emily Martini |
Assistant teaching professor |
Kinesiology |
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (12)
|
Name |
Position |
Department |
|
Mridu Kashyap |
Assistant professor of practice |
Computer science |
|
Liyi Li |
Assistant professor |
Computer science |
|
Clay Stevens |
Assistant professor |
Computer science |
|
Tony Moton |
Assistant teaching professor |
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication |
|
Daniel Corrigan |
Assistant teaching professor |
Philosophy and religious studies |
|
Scott Samuelson |
Professor of practice |
Philosophy and religious studies |
|
Tess Neal |
Associate professor |
Psychology |
|
Miko Wilford |
Associate professor |
Psychology |
|
Chunlin Li |
Assistant professor |
Statistics |
|
Luana Lamberti Nunes |
Assistant professor |
World languages and cultures |
|
Arlenne Negron |
Lecturer |
World languages and cultures |
|
Hugo Salgado |
Assistant professor |
World languages and cultures |
College of Veterinary Medicine (5)
|
Name |
Position |
Department |
|
Sudhir Kumar |
Assistant professor |
Biomedical sciences |
|
Jackie Willette |
Clinical assistant professor |
Veterinary clinical sciences |
|
Anne Jablinski |
Assistant professor |
Veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine |
|
Phillip Jardon |
Clinical associate professor |
Veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine |
|
Todd Bell |
Professor |
Veterinary pathology |
