UAH promotion, tenure awards for 2024-2025 year given to 25 outstanding faculty members

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) recognized 25 faculty members for their outstanding performance and overall excellence by awarding them tenure and/or promotion starting with the 2024-2025 academic year. UAH is a part of The University of Alabama System.

These faculty members include seven who were promoted to professor, nine who were awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor, two promotions to clinical associate professor, one promotion to clinical assistant professor, one promotion to librarian IV, and five promotions to senior lecturer.

Congratulations to these UAH faculty members:

PROMOTION TO PROFESSOR

• Azita Amiri – Nursing
• Kathleen Baldwin – Art and Art History
• Andrei Gandila – History
• Yeow Chye Ng – Nursing
• Louise O’Keefe – Nursing
• Christina Steidl – Sociology
• Gabe Xu – Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

AWARD OF TENURE AND PROMOTION TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Jennifer Bail – Nursing
• Haihong Che – Space Science
• Frances Hamilton – Education
• Kimberly Hile – Education
• Natalie Malak – Economics
• Abdullahi Salman – Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Tatyana Sysoeva – Biological Sciences
• Kristin Weger – Psychology
• Guangsheng Zhang – Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

PROMOTION TO CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

• Themistoklis Chronis – Physics
• Tracy Lakin – Nursing

PROMOTION TO CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

• LaToya Patterson – Nursing

PROMOTION TO LIBRARIAN IV

• David Moore – Salmon Library

PROMOTION TO SENIOR LECTURER

• David Fikes – Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• John Mohr – History
• Colleen Noletto – English
• Kelly Smith – History
• Pamela Twigg – Chemistry