The Board of Trustees has approved the promotions of four faculty members. The faculty members and their departments, by the academic rank to which they are being promoted, are:
Professor -- M. Zahid Hasan, physics.
Associate professor (with continuing tenure) -- David Blei, computer science; Manuel Llinás, molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.
Assistant professor (for a term of three and a half years) -- Kathryn Gin, religion.
All promotions were effective July 1, 2011, except for Gin's, which was effective Feb. 1, 2011.