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New Faculty: Uptown Campus 2007-08 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 August 2007 Dear new colleagues, Welcome to the Tulane community! As you scan the new faculty roster assembled in this handbook, consider that you have joined an institution that has flourished for over a century and a half. It is a wonderful and fine tradition of which you now become a part. Ours is a university that is nationally and internationally recognized as a leading research and art-making institution -- one that is innovative, trend-setting, and student- centered. Our schools and colleges offer a wide array of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees in architecture, business, law, liberal arts, medicine, public health and tropical medicine, science and engineering, and social work. Tulane strives to connect its values and mission to the needs of the city of New Orleans, the state of Louisiana, and the Gulf Coast region – as well as to those of the nation and the wider world. Community involvement is now especially important as the University participates in the rebirth of our city and state in the wake of the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We are very proud that Tulane faculty and staff lend their expertise to rebuilding efforts while at the same time our students gain real-world experience putting their rapidly maturing skills to use. Excellence in research and art-making, outstanding teaching and mentorship, and the striking diversity of the degree programs we offer help attract to Tulane the very best faculty and students from across our nation and from around the world. When also given the opportunity to be involved in one of the largest urban renewal projects in history, our students ultimately have an educational experience found only in New Orleans, only at Tulane. In the final analysis, it is you and all of the faculty and staff of our University who make Tulane the truly extraordinary place that it is today; it is the students and the wider communities we serve that are our greatest legacy. I hope that your years at Tulane are inspiring, productive and fulfilling. I wish you every success in all your endeavors. Most Cordially, Michael A. Bernstein Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost 2 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 New Uptown Faculty Texas A&M University. His research John Armstrong, Ph.D. specialty is in deep-sea ecosystems and School of Science and Engineering 2007-08 marine invertebrates. Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics Max Adrien, Ph.D. William Arceneaux, Ph.D. John Armstrong received his doctorate from Yale in 2006, where he has been School of Liberal Arts School of Liberal Arts teaching for the last year. His continuing Visiting Assistant Professor, French and Distinguished Visiting Professor of History Italian research program concerns quantum William Arceneaux has just completed 20 topology, studying the interactions between Max Adrien received his B.A. years as president of the Louisiana knot theory, category theory, in Philosophy, Business and Theology from Association of Independent Colleges and representation theory, and theoretical Loyola University Chicago, his M.A. in Universities, of which Tulane is a charter physics. He is also active in mathematical French Literature and Civilization from member. He was Louisiana’s first exposition for the generally interested lay The University of Illinois Chicago, his Commissioner of Higher Education (1972- audience, writing "The Unapologetic D.E.A. [Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies] in 1987). His last book was nominated by the Mathematician" online at Littérature et Civilisation Françaises from LSU Press for the Pulitzer Prize in the http://unapologetic.wordpress.com Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris category of Letters and Drama and is III, Paris, France, and his Ph.D. in French scheduled to be released in a French San Hla Aung, Ph.D. Literature &Civilization: Seventeenth edition this fall. School of Science and Engineering Century Classical Fables, Theater and Professor of Practice Moralists, and Medieval Literature (11th— O. Tolga Aricak, Ph.D. 13th centuries epic and courtly literatures) School of Science and Engineering San Hla Aung graduated from the from Tulane University. In 2002-04 Dr. Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology Adrien was Visiting Instructor of French University of Rangoon, Burma, with a Language and Literature at Carleton Tolga Aricak received a B.S. in Counseling Bachelor of Science degree in Civil College, in 2004-06 he was a Visiting and Guidance from Istanbul University, an Engineering in March 1958 and taught Instructor of French at New College of M.A. in Psychological Services in there for two years. He then attended the Florida, and in 2006-07 he was an Adjunct Education and Ph.D. in Educational Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Assistant Professor of French at Tulane Sciences from the Marmara University at earned his Master of Science degree in University. Dr. Adrien's publications Istanbul. He worked at Trakya University, Civil Engineering in May 1962. After include articles in Dalhousie French School of Education as assistant professor teaching at the Rangoon Institute of Studies and Olifant. between 1999 and 2006 years. In the Technology until 1988, he came to Tulane 2006-2007 academic years, Dr. Aricak was University and worked in the Civil and Archie W. Ammons, Ph.D. a visiting scholar at Indiana University Environmental Engineering Department. School of Science and Engineering Bloomington, Department of Counseling, He obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering Visiting Assistant Professor, Ecology and and Educational Psychology, where he from Tulane in May 2000 and is now a Evolutionary Biology conducted several research projects with Professor of Practice in the School of colleagues. His current research is focused Science and Engineering. His areas of Archie Ammons received a B.S. in Marine on cyberbullying among adolescents. interest in research include local buckling Biology from Texas A&M University at of high strength concrete box piers and Galveston and a Ph.D. in Zoology from 3 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 prefabricated construction with precast symbolic and complexity-theoretic methods molecular events in the hormone response concrete and with wood. in network security. mechanism as a model system for this research. This mechanism regulates a Leonardo Avritzer, Ph.D. Chad R. Bhatti, Ph.D. number of physiologic processes, including School of Liberal Arts cell differentiation, growth, development School of Science and Engineering Greenleaf Visiting Professor, Latin and brain function. It therefore plays a Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics American Studies and Anthropology critical role in human health and disease. He has developed a multiscale model of Chad R. Bhatti is a NSF VIGRE Larry Catá Backer chromatin that bridges between atomic and Postdoctoral Researcher in the continuum scales. It is being utilized to Law School Department of Mathematics at Tulane Visiting Professor of Law investigate nucleosome stability and University. Dr. Bhatti completed his Ph.D. chromatin folding for entire genomes and Larry Catá Backer received a B.A. in in Statistics at the George R. Brown School to rapidly assemble individual History from Brandeis University, an of Engineering at Rice University in May nucleosomes for subsequent analysis by M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of 2007. His dissertation was titled all atom molecular dynamics simulations. Government, Harvard University, and a "Statistical Models for Intraday Trading Dr. Bishop has received support for this J.D. from Columbia University Law School. Dynamics." Dr. Bhatti's primary research From 2000, he has served as Professor of research from the Louisiana Board of interests are in the areas of statistics, high- Regents, the National Science Foundation, Law, Pennsylvania State University, and frequency finance, and econometrics. Dickinson School of Law. From 1991 and the National Institutes of Health. Current support is from the Louisiana through 2000 he served as Professor of Thomas C. Bishop, Ph.D. Law and Executive Director of the Board of Regents Research School of Science and Engineering Comparative and International Law Center, Competitiveness Program, the recently University of Tulsa College of Law. His Research Associate Professor, Center for awarded La Board of Regents and NSF current research is focused on Computational Science EPSCoR Research Infrastructure globalization law. Improvement: Information Technology Tom Bishop was recruited to Tulane and Award and an NIH R01. Gergely Bana, Ph.D. Xavier Universities under the Joint Faculty appointments program. He is a founding School of Science and Engineering Michael A. Bernstein, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics member of the New Orleans Protein School of Liberal Arts Folding Intergroup and the Center for Professor, History Gergely Bana received an M.Sc. Computational Science.He is a Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs equivalent Diploma in Physics from Eötvös computational molecular biologist and and Provost University, Budapest, an M.A. in Statistics employs high performance parallel and then a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the computers and mathematical modeling to Michael Bernstein comes to Tulane University of Pennsylvania in 2004. investigate biomolecular complexes. His University from the University of California, Subsequently, he was a post-doctoral primary research interests are the structure San Diego, where he was Dean of Arts and fellow in Mathematics at the University of and dynamics of DNA and chromatin and Humanities and a professor (and former Pennsylvania and then in Computer how they relate to genetic function and chair) of History. His teaching and research Science at the University of California, interests focus on the economic and dysfunction (e.g. transcription, regulation, Davis. His current research is focused on political history of the United States, replication and repair). He studies macroeconomic theory, industrial 4 New Faculty: Uptown Campus, 2007-08 organization economics, and the history of Zoology from Duke University. From 2003 Gary H. Brooks received his B.A.