COLLEGE OF THE SCIENCES
PROMOTED TO FULL PROFESSOR
Timothy Beng — Department of Chemistry PhD, Chemistry, University of Arkansas
Dr. Timothy K. Beng hails from Kuk village, Cameroon-Africa. He obtained BS and MS Chemistry degrees from the University of Buea and East Tennessee State University, respectively. Dr. Beng earned a PhD degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Arkansas, working with Professor Gawley. He later moved to the University of California, Berkeley as an NIH postdoctoral fellow, under Professor Richmond Sarpong. His independent career commenced at Central Washington University in 2015 and he earned tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2020. Dr. Beng is a recipient of the 2024 President’s Diversity Award and the 2025 Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarship. Dr. Beng has been promoted to the rank of Professor this year. His research focuses on the synthesis of nitrogen- containing cyclic compounds capable of treating neglected tropical diseases. Dr. Beng’s research efforts have produced over forty publications.
Cassandra Fallscheer — Department of Physics PhD, University of Heidelberg
Dr. Fallscheer joined the CWU physics department in 2014 and started on the tenure track in 2015. Since then, she primarily taught the courses for the astronomy minor, but she also teaches some of the physics courses. Dr. Fallscheer advises the CWU Astronomy Club and mentor astronomy minors in undergraduate research opportunities using the CWU 0.6-meter research telescope. For example, her students have studied eclipsing binary stars, asteroids, supernovae, exoplanets, and variable stars.
Jessica Mayhew — Department of Anthropology and Museum Studies PhD, University of St. Andrews
Dr. Mayhew typically conducts field and captive work with large-bodied apes and macaques. Her research interests include projects working to better understand behavior and cognition from an evolutionary perspective as well as those with conservation and animal welfare aims. She is particularly interested in the lives of juvenile primates, their development, and their social integration into groups via social play and affiliative relationships.
Liane Pereira — Department of Psychology PhD, McGill University
Liane C. Pereira, PhD is a Sri Lankan Canadian scholar-educator and a developmental psychologist. She previously worked as a secondary special education teacher for 14 years. Her research examines the inequities and intersectionality of the relationship among socioemotional, educational, and mental health outcomes in students.
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