Eighteen new faculty members, including a new provost who also holds a faculty position, began teaching and research at the University of Missouri-Rolla this fall.

The new faculty are:

– Mohamed Abdelsalam, associate professor, geological sciences and engineering

– Baojun Bai, assistant professor, geological sciences and engineering

– Matt Bohm, lecturer, interdisciplinary engineering

– Cynthia Bolon, lecturer, chemistry

– Joseph Bradley, assistant professor, business administration

– Cari Bryant, lecturer, interdisciplinary engineering

– Aaron Eckstein, lecturer, speech

– Stephen Gao, associate professor, geological sciences and engineering

– Katie Grantham Lough, assistant professor, interdisciplinary engineering

– Tony Houston, visiting assistant professor, Spanish

– Chih-Mao Hsieh, assistant professor, business administration

– Irina Ivliyeva, assistant professor, arts, languages and philosophy

– Jeffrey King, assistant professor, mining and nuclear engineering

– Kelly Hong Liu, associate professor, geological sciences and engineering

– Lian Qi, assistant professor, business administration

– Hong Sheng, assistant professor, business administration, information science and technology

– Warren K. Wray, provost and professor, civil, architectural and environmental engineering

– Hai Xiao, associate professor, electrical and computer engineering