From October 2004 through September 2005, UC Irvine increased its faculty ranks by 69 new members - adding scholars with interests as diverse as advancing hearing aid technology, reducing airport congestion, discerning effective criminal justice programs and Italian Baroque music.

"We are particularly impressed with the accomplishments and diversity of this year's group of new faculty," said Herb Killackey, associate executive vice chancellor of academic personnel and professor of neurobiology and behavior. "These scholars strengthen our growing reputation as one of the nation's very best research universities."

Full professors who joined the university during this period include:
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Claire Trevor School of the Arts

Colleen Reardon is an expert on music of the Italian Baroque period, with her research focusing on musical culture in early modern Siena. She has authored two books: one on music at the cathedral and one on musical performances by Sienese nuns. She also has co-edited two volumes of essays, including one for the late William C. Holmes, who taught for many years in the UCI music department. Reardon serves on the Council of the American Musicological Society and as vice-president of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.

The Paul Merage School of Business

Philip Bromiley comes to UCI from the University of Minnesota, where he held the Curtis L. Carlson Land Grant Chair in Strategic Management at the Carlson School of Management and chaired the Department of Strategic Management and Organization. A scholar whose work has fundamentally contributed to the field of strategic management, he has examined issues including corporate risk, trust, regulation and the planning processes within organizations. Bromiley has published extensively in areas such as behavioral economics, law and economics, public policy and psychology.

Morton Pincus arrives at UCI from the University of Iowa, where he was the Harry B. Carlson-KPMG Peat Marwick Research Professor of Accounting in the Tippie College of Business. A financial accounting scholar, his research has been focused on understanding how economic forces affect earnings management and the accounting choices of firms. In addition, he has examined the linkage between accounting performance measures and stock prices. He received his doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis.

School of Humanities

Winston James specializes in Caribbean, African American and African diaspora history. His publications include Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain, with Clive Harris; Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America, which won the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship from the Caribbean Studies Association; and A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay's Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion. He is currently working on a two-volume study on acclaimed poet, novelist and journalist Claude McKay.

Patricia Seed joins the UCI Department of History with diverse research interests that include Latin American history, world history and the history of science and technology. She also has concentrated on gender and postcolonial studies, as well as the social construction of race. Her current project focuses on the origins of the arts of navigation in medieval Portugal and their transmission throughout the Atlantic World in the early modern period. An award-winning teacher and author, including the Herbert W. Bolton Memorial Prize, she is writing the third volume of her trilogy on European conquest.

Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences

Wesley Johnson is a statistician whose research interests include developing Bayesian statistical methods for biostatistical and epidemiologic applications. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Royal Statistical Society. He is also a past president of the western regional North American regional Biometrics society, and is associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association and the journal Bayesian Analysis.

School of Medicine

Tibor Juhasz has a split appointment in ophthalmology and biomedical engineering at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. In 1986, Juhasz received his doctorate in physics from JATE University of Szeged, Hungary, then conducted post-doctoral training at the University of Rochester and UCI. Juhasz joins UCI after serving on the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, where his discoveries led to the formation of Irvine-based IntraLase - a company whose laser technique is the base technology used to create the corneal flap in the LASIK procedure.

School of Physical Sciences

Jack Xin comes to UCI from the University of Texas at Austin, where he developed new hearing aids using new mathematical algorithms that digitize the sound signal and filter out background noise that ordinarily is amplified. Among his many distinctions, Xin received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on wave propagation in multi-scale media and his application of differential equations to the processing of speech and other sounds. Xin received a doctorate in mathematics from New York University and, prior serving at Texas, was a faculty member of the University of Arizona.

School of Social Ecology

Carroll Seron is a senior sociology scholar whose academic career includes serving as a judicial fellow at the U.S. Supreme Court and a research associate at the Federal Judicial Center. Prior to coming to UCI, she was a full professor at CUNY, where she had appointments in the Baruch College and CUNY's Graduate Center. Over the course of her career, she has conducted sociological and policy-related research with a focus on legal institutions. She brings to UCI a number of multi-year National Science Foundation grants, and has an established record of securing external funding and publishing well-cited books and articles.

Susan Turner is a social psychologist who now serves as the associate director of UCI's newly created, state-funded Center for Evidence-Based Corrections. Turner has served as a researcher and director of the criminal justice program at RAND. She has conducted policy work on sentencing and corrections, and on the evaluation of a broad range of innovative programs within the criminal and juvenile justice systems. Her work has involved developing randomized and experimental field studies in collaboration with state and local criminal justice agencies.

School of Social Sciences

Edwin Amenta is a political sociologist who joins UCI after serving as a professor of sociology at New York University. Best known for his theoretical and methodological work on social movements and American domestic social policy, he is the author of many works, including Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy. His latest book, When Movements Matter:Â The Impact of the Townsend Plan and U.S. Social Spending Challengers, examines the outcomes of several social movements that challenged American social policy from the 1930s through the 1950s.

Jan Brueckner is an expert in urban economics, public economics, housing finance and the economics of the airline industry. His most recent research analyzes the allocation of take-off slots at congested airports. Brueckner has published widely and currently serves as editor of the Journal of Urban Economics. He has been a consultant to the World Bank and many of the major airlines, and has served as an expert witness in cases involving land-use controls. Brueckner joins UCI after serving on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was the IBE Distinguished Professor of Economics.

William Demopoulos is a leading authority on philosophers Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege. Demopoulos has been instrumental in the development of quantum logic and in the conceptual analysis of quantum mechanics. His research focuses on how developments in logic influence philosophy and empirical science, and how philosophy and empirical science have influenced the development of modern logic. Demopoulos joins UCI after serving as a professor of philosophy at The University of Western Ontario.

Previously announced new faculty hires during this period are John Avise, Distinguished Professor in the School of Biological Sciences; Ramesh Jain, Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences; George Marcus, Chancellor's Professor in the School of Social Sciences; Bill Rauch, Claire Trevor Professor of Drama; Yvonne Rainer, Distinguished Professor in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts; and Sharon Salinger, dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education. (See "Related Links" above.)

For a complete list of the faculty who have recently joined UCI, visit: www.ap.uci.edu/appointments/newfac051.html.

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