Carlos Alberto do Rosario Baptista, from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, to research assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry.

Michele T. Pato, from Brown University, to associate professor, Department of Psychiatry.

Carlos N. Pato, from Brown University, to assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry.

Victor James Hernandez, from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Md., to assistant professor, Department of Microbiology.

Joydeep Bhattacharya, from University of Southern California, to assistant professor of macroeconomics, Department of Economics.

Jinyoung Kim, reappointed as visiting professor in labor development, Department of Economics.

Austin Booth, from University of Michigan Libraries, to humanities subject specialist in Lockwood Library.

Christopher Gibbs, from Haverford College, to assistant professor, Department of Music.

Mary Flanigan, from Human Code, Inc., Austin, Texas, to assistant professor of digital media, Department of Media Study.

Jiuan Yu, from Oxford University, to assistant professor, Department of Philosophy.

Moving up

Lorna Peterson, from assistant professor to associate professor, School of Information and Library Studies.

Jerry Godwin, from assistant director to director of student activities in the Office of Student Life.

Moving on

Richard T. Hull, professor, Department of Philosophy, to executive director, Texas Council for the Humanities.

Maggie Saxon Wright, assistant dean for minority affairs, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Donna Juenker, associate professor, director of undergraduate education, School of Nursing.

Sharon Dittmar, professor, School of Nursing.

Norma Shatz Rubin, coordinator of the Curriculum Center.

Stuart Scott, associate professor, Department of Anthropology.

Charlotte Grantham, clinical assistant professor, Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences.

Richard Mitchell, associate professor, Department of Geography.

Georg Iggers, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of History.

Madeleine Mathiot, professor, Department of Linguistics.

Richard Friedman, associate professor, Department of Political Science.

Anthony Graziano, professor, Department of Psychology.

Gunter Schmitz, professor, Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning.

Marcus Klein, professor, Department of English.

Erica Metzger, professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.

Marvel Shmiefsky, professor, Department of English.

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