NEW FACULTY, NEW FACES FOR FALL '02 TERM

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Chicago, IL — October 4, 2002 —

A combination of new faces and new roles for some familiar ones, have greeted students for the fall semester at Illinois Institute of Technology.

IIT’s Armour College rolls out the welcome mat for seven new professors. An Ohio PhD joins in the Institute of Psychology. And in the College of Architecture, four existing faculty members have been promoted.

The appointments are as follows:

Shlomo Argamon, Senior Lecturer, Jerusalem College of Technology to Associate Professor of Computer Science, Armour College.

Scott Ashmann, Instructor, Michigan State University, to Assistant Professor of Math & Science Education, Armour College.

Susan Conger-Austin, Studio Associate Professor, College of Architecture to Assistant Professor.

Robert Krawczyk, Senior Lecturer, College of Architecture to Assistant Professor.

Zhiling Lan, Research Assistant, Northwestern University to Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Armour College.

David Mogul, Consultant, ZS Associates, Evanston, Ill. to Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Armour College.

Michael Pelsmajer, Graduate Student, University of Illinois to Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics, Armour College.

John Ronan, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, College of Architecture to Assistant Professor.

Shreya Sarkar-Barney, PhD, Graduate Student, Bowling Green State University
to Assistant Professor of Psychology, Institute of Psychology.

Gennady Shvets, Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, to Associate Professor of Physics (joint appointment with FermiLab), Armour College.

Catherine Wetzel, Studio Associate Professor, College of Architecture to Assistant Professor.

Judith Zawojewksi, Associate Professor, Purdue University to Associate Professor of Math and Science Education, Armour College.

Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting technological university awarding degrees in the sciences, mathematics and engineering, as well as architecture, psychology, design, business and law. IIT’s interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum prepares the university’s 6,200 students for leadership roles in an increasingly complex and culturally diverse global workplace.