The Executive Commitee of the MIT Corporation has approved the promotions of 39 assistant professors to associate professor without tenure, effective July 1. They are:
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
Architecture: Takehiko Nagakura
Urban Studies and Planning: Qing Shen
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Aeronautics and Astronautics: Eric Feron, S. Mark Spearing
Bioengineering and Environmental Health: David Ben Schauer
Chemical Engineering: Paul I. Barton, Paul E. Laibinis
Civil and Environmental Engineering: John B. Miller, Heidi M. Nepf, Feniosky Pena-Mora, Shi-Chang Wooh
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Amos Lapidoth, Alexandre Megretski, Paul A. Viola
Mechanical Engineering: John G. Brisson II, Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Kai-Yeung Siu, David Wallace
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Economics: Susan Athey, Jaume Ventura
Foreign Languages and Literatures: Nicol������s Wey-G������mez
History: Jeffrey S. Ravel
Linguistics and Philosophy: Alexander Byrne, Michel deGraff, Ralph Nicholas Wedgwood
Literature: Shankar Raman
Music and Theater Arts: Brenda L. Cotto-Escalera
Political Science: Melissa Nobles, Frederic C. Shaffer
SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Denis Gromb
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
Biology: Jianzhu Chen, Jacqueline Lees, Peter Sorger
Brain and Cognitive Sciences: Matthew Wilson
Chemistry: Lawrence J. Stern, Bruce Tidor
Mathematics: Michael P. Brenner
Physics: Tomas Arias, Uwe-Jens Wiese
A version of this article appeared in the April 7, 1999 issue of MIT Tech Talk (Volume 43, Number 25).
