{"id":3003,"date":"2016-09-30T15:17:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/?page_id=3003"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:17:16","slug":"new-faculty-appointed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/along-the-walk\/new-faculty-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"New Faculty Appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following new tenure-track faculty began appointments at the College effective July 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael A. Grubb<\/strong>, <em>Assistant Professor of Psychology<\/em><br \/>\nB.A., Psychology, The University of Oklahoma<br \/>\nM.A., Global Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan<br \/>\nM.A., Experimental Psychology, New York University<br \/>\nPh.D., Experimental Psychology, New York University<br \/>\n<em>Dissertation: Spatial Attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Neural Science, New York University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mareike Koertner<\/strong>, <em>Assistant Professor of Religion<\/em><br \/>\nB.A., Arabic Studies and Political Science, University of Leipzig, Germany<br \/>\nM.Phil., Arabic and Islamic Studies, Yale University<br \/>\nPh.D., Arabic and Islamic Studies, Yale University<br \/>\n<em>Dissertation: We Have Made Clear the Signs \u2013 Dal\u0101\u2019il al-Nub\u016bwa: Proofs of Prophecy in Early \u1e24ad\u012bth Literature<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Koertner has been a visiting assistant professor of religion at Trinity for the last two years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luis A. Martinez<\/strong>, <em>Assistant Professor of Neuroscience<\/em><br \/>\nB.S., Psychology, University at Buffalo<br \/>\nM.S., Neuroscience, Georgia State University<br \/>\nPh.D., Neuroscience, Georgia State University<br \/>\n<em>Dissertation: Neural Regulation of Sexual Solicitation in Female Syrian Hamsters: Role of Oxytocin<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amber L. Pitt<\/strong>, <em>Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Biology<\/em><br \/>\nB.A., Zoology, University of Vermont<br \/>\nM.S., Interdisciplinary Ecology, University of Florida<br \/>\nPh.D., Interdisciplinary Ecology, University of Florida<br \/>\n<em>Dissertation: Freshwater River Turtle Populations Influenced by a Naturally Generated Thermal Gradient<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Wetlands Project Manager, School of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ewa Syta<\/strong>, <em>Assistant Professor of Computer Science<\/em><br \/>\nB.S., Computer Engineering, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland<br \/>\nM.S., Computer Engineering, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland<br \/>\nM.S., Computer Information Technology, Central Connecticut State University<br \/>\nM.Phil., Computer Science, Yale University<br \/>\nPh.D., Computer Science, Yale University<br \/>\n<em>Dissertation: Identity Management through Privacy-Preserving Authentication<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vincent Tomasso<\/strong>, <em>Assistant Professor of Classics<\/em><br \/>\nB.A., Classics, University of Washington<br \/>\nPh.D., Classics, Stanford University<br \/>\n<em>Dissertation: \u201cCast in Later Grecian Mould\u201d: Quintus of Smyrna\u2019s Reception of Homer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following new tenure-track faculty began appointments at the College effective July 1, 2016. Michael A. Grubb, Assistant Professor of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":1466,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3003\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}