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28 associate profs named

The Executive Commitee of the MIT Corporation has approved the promotions of 28 assistant professors to associate professor without tenure, effective July 1. They are:

School of Architecture and Planning

Architecture: Qingyan Chen, Ellen Dunhan-Jones

Media Arts and Sciences: Aaron Bobick

Urban Studies and Planning: Timothy Riddiough

School of Engineering

Aeronautics and Astronautics: Dava J. Newman

Civil and Environmental Engineering: Patricia J. Culligan-Hensley, Elfatih A.B. Eltahir

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Dennis M. Freeman, David R. Karger, Bernard C. Lesieutre, Seth J. Teller

Mechanical Engineering: Zaichun (Frank) Feng, Douglas P. Hart, Seth Lloyd, Kevin N. Otto

School of Humanities and Social Science

Economics: Jorn-Steffen Pischke

History: Heather C. Richardson

Linguistics and Philosophy: Kai von Fintel

Political Science: Daniel T. Kryder

Sloan School of Management

Simon Johnson

School of Science

Biology: Stephen Bell, Jun Liu

Chemistry: Gregory C. Fu

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences: Robert D. van der Hilst

Mathematics: Alan Edelman

Physics: Raymond C. Ashoori, Leslie J. Rosenberg

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on May 6, 1998.

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