COLLEGE OF THE SCIENCES
PROMOTED TO FULL PROFESSOR
Gil Belofsky — Department of Chemistry PhD, The University of Tulsa
Dr. Gil Belofsky, a member of the Department of Chemistry since 2008, has advanced from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor in 2014 and now to Full Professor in recognition of his outstanding contributions. His teaching portfolio spans undergraduate, graduate, and honors courses, including innovative curriculum development and extensive student mentorship. A productive scholar, he has published multiple peer-reviewed works with student collaborators and secured external funding, including a major NIH grant. Dr. Belofsky has also demonstrated strong leadership and service within the department and broader academic community. His sustained excellence in teaching, research, and service merits his promotion to Full Professor.
Tonya Buchanan — Department of Psychology PhD Social Psychology, Miami University
Dr. Tonya Buchanan received her B.S. in Psychology at Arizona State University in 2008, and her PhD in Social Psychology from Miami University in 2014. She joined CWU in 2015 where she shares her passion for social science research with both graduate and undergraduate students in classes such as social cognition, research methods, and statistics. Her own work focuses on judgment and decision-making and how people make sense of inequality. She teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students in her active research lab where they empirically examine topics such as imposter feelings, structural bias, and dehumanization, with an emphasis on real-world impact. She currently serves as the Coordinator of the Psychological Science MS program, is actively involved in service and faculty governance, and is committed to elevating student and faculty voices across the university.
Ralf Greenwald — Department of Psychology PhD Cognition and Neuroscience, University of Texas at Dallas
Dr. Greenwald is a Gulf War and U.S. Navy veteran. He received his doctorate in Cognition and Neuroscience at the University of Texas at Dallas. He did his postdoc at the University of Washington, where he was a Senior Fellow in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Neuroimaging Core). Before joining CWU, he worked as an Intraoperative Surgical Neurophysiologist and was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UT Dallas. Dr. Greenwald began at CWU as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and is part of the Psychological Sciences graduate program. He mainly teaches courses centered on cognition and neuroscience.
Sterling Quinn — Department of Geography PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Sterling Quinn grew up in central Washington state and worked in software development before transitioning to a career in higher education. At CWU he teaches courses on geographic information systems (GIS), Latin American society, and resource management. He researches the kinds of things we put on maps, the things we leave off, and why. His commentary on the geopolitical and economic impacts of online maps has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, NPR, and numerous academic journals. Most importantly, Dr. Quinn holds a reputation as being difficult to beat at Geoguessr, although that hasn’t stopped a lab full of students from trying.
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