Doctoral student receives fellowship

Zhixian “George” Yi, a Texas Woman’s University doctoral candidate in library sciences, is one of only four graduate students in the U.S. selected to receive a 2009 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from Beta Phi Mu, the international library and information studies honor society.

According to Beta Phi Mu, the Garfield Fellowship is given annually to library and information science doctoral students to complete their dissertations and carries a cash stipend of $3,000.

Yi expects to receive his Ph.D. from TWU in December, and his dissertation topic is “The Management of Change in the Information Age — Approaches of Library and Academic Directors in the U.S.” He has published extensively and presented at numerous national and international conferences, including at the Shanghai International Library Forum in China in 2006.

He received his master’s in library science from Southern Connecticut State University and his master’s in English Language and Literature from Central South University in Hunan province, China.

TWU regents approve promotions and tenure

The TWU Board of Regents recently approved promotions and tenure recommendations at its quarterly meeting June 5.

Associate professor Linda Caldwell (dance) was promoted to professor and received tenure. Associate professors Nancy Anderson (reading), Michelle Cho (nursing — Dallas), Ellina Grigorieva (mathematics and computer science), Karen Petty (family sciences), Sharla Snider (family sciences) and Nora White (reading) were promoted to professor.

Associate professors Brenda Binder (nursing — Houston) and Michael Raisinghani (international business) and professor Ron Fritsch (teacher education) were awarded tenure.

Michael Stankey, TWU’s new associate provost, and Genevieve West, who will begin her duties as the chairwoman of the TWU department of English, speech and foreign languages in July, also received tenure.

Assistant professors Mary Anderson (chemistry/physics), Carol Arnold (nursing — Dallas), Linda Brock (family sciences), DiAnna Hynds (biology), Suh-Jen Lin (physical therapy — Dallas), Rhonda McClellan (teacher education), Pushkala Raman (marketing) and Claudia Sanchez (teacher education) were promoted to associate professor and received tenure.

Assistant clinical professor Donna Walls (nursing — Dallas) was promoted to associate clinical professor.

Several retiring faculty were awarded emeritus status by the regents. Robin Britt (nursing — Houston), Betty Henderson (nursing — Houston), Caryl Mobley (associate dean of nursing — Dallas), Sherrie Taylor (School of Management) and Frances Thompson (math and computer science) were all named professor emerita. Robert Martin, the former TWU Lillian Bradshaw Endowed Chair in library science, was named a professor emeritus.