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Posted
8/11/2008
Arnold School welcomes 5 new tenure-track faculty
Five persons will join the Arnold School of Public Health this month
as tenure-track faculty members.
  
Dr. Christine E. Blake and Dr. Melinda Spencer will join the
Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior.
Blake, a registered dietitian, comes from Cornell University where
she was a postdoctoral associate in the Division of Nutritional
Sciences. She earned her bachelor’s degree from State University of New
York at Plattsburg and her master’s and doctorate from Cornell.
Spencer has been a Kellogg Health Scholar and research assistant at
the Center for Minority Health, University of Pittsburg Graduate School
of Public Health. She earned her bachelor’s, masters and doctorate from
West Virginia University.
Dr. Peter Soros will join the Department of Communication Sciences
and Disorders.
He has been a post-doctoral fellow at the School of Communication
Sciences & Disorders,
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. He has a medical
degree from the
Hannover Medical School in Germany and a bachelor’s degree (equivalent)
from the University of Gottingen.
Dr. Raja A. Fayad and Dr. Michael W. Beets will join the Department
of Exercise Science.
Fayad has been a research assistant professor in the Department of
Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Chicago. He has a medical
degree from Aleppo University School of Medicine in Aleppo, Syria.
Beets comes from Oregon State University where he was Post Doctoral
Fellow in the Department of Public Health. He earned his bachelor’s
degree and two master’s degrees from Wichita State University and his
doctorate from Oregon State University.
All of the new faculty members will hold the title of assistant
professor.
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