Alfred University welcomes new faculty 8/16/01
Eleven new faculty members will greet students when the fall semester begins at Alfred University. Classes are
scheduled to begin Aug.27.New faculty include:College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dr. J. Heath Athchley, assistant professor of religion; Dr. Elizabeth A. Dill, assistant professor of English; Dr. Andrew G. Eklund, assistant professor of chemistry; Jason R. Jolley, instructor in Spanish; and Edward K. Wadin, instructor in music.School of Art and Design: Shelly Bahl, visiting assistant professor of two-dimensional studies; Judy Ross, assistant professor of graphic design; and Andrew G. Shaw, visiting assistant professor of freshman foundation.School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science: Dr. Carl Boehlert, assistant professor of materials science and engineering; Dr. Caspar McConville, assistant professor of materials science and engineering; and Dr. Subrata Saha, professor of biomaterials.Atchley, who earned his. Ph.D and master's degrees in religion from Syracuse University, has been a teaching intern and teaching assistant at Syracuse since 1997. He received his B.A. degree in religion and philosophy from Catawba College.Dill, who has an assistant professor of English at Truckee Meadows Community College since 1999, was a lecturer at the State University of New York at Buffalo for three years prior to that. She received her Ph.D. in English from SUNY Buffalo in 2000 and her M.A. in English from the same institution in 1998. Dill is a 1994 alumna of Wells College in Aurora, NY, with a B.A. in English.Eklund joins the AU faculty after completing a postdoctoral teaching and research fellowship at the University of Vermont. He had previously been a visiting professor of inorganic chemistry at the College of Wooster. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Irvine, where he was a graduate assistant from 1993 to 1998. Eklund received his B.A. degree from the College of Wooster in 1993.Jolley received both his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Spanish from Brigham Young University. He has been working at Penn State University since 1999, first as an assistant director of basic language for the department of Spanish, and then as a placement and proficiency specialist for the department.Previously an adjunct instructor of music at Houghton College since 1994, Wadin received a bachelor's degree in music from Potsdam in 1973; a master's in applied bassoon from Ithaca College in 1975; and a Master of Music degree in wind ensemble conducting from the New England
Conservatory in 1983. He taught in private and public schools for a number of years and was chief executive officer and owner of Marlin Lesher Reed Company from 1989 to 1997.Bahl, who holds an M.A. in studio art from New York University and a BFA from York University, has taught at Ryerson University and Sheridan College. She has also been a visiting artist in mixed-media sculpture for the Toronto Board of Education and an instructor of drawing, painting and printmaking for the North York Board of Education.A 1979 graduate of the University of Michigan School of Art and Design with a BFA, Ross received her MFA degree from the same school in 2000. She spent the last academic year as an artist-in-residence at the University of Tennessee School of Art. In addition to teaching, Ross has been owner of Art Directions in Knoxville, TN, since 1986 and had previously been a graphic artist and then art director for Campbell-Ewald Advertising in Warren, MI.A 2000 alumnus of Alfred University with an MFA in ceramic art, Shaw received his B.A. in history from Kenyon College. During the past academic year, he was an
adjunct assistant professor of ceramic art at Gettysburg College. As a graduate student, he taught freshman foundation, a pottery course for liberal arts students and wheel-throwing for sophomores at Alfred. Boehlert comes to AU after two years as a postdoctoral research associate at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University from 1998-1999 and a materials scientist for Universal Energy Systems from 1993 to 1998.
He earned a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Dayton in 1997; an M.S. in materials science and engineering from the University of Dayton in 1993 and a B.S. degree in agricultural and biological engineering from Cornell University in 1991.Prior to joining the faculty, McConville was a technical specialist in transmission electron microscopy for the School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science at Alfred. He received a B.Sc. degree in 1993 and a M.Phil degree in 1995, both from Staffordshire University. He earned a Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.Saha comes to Alfred University from Clemson University, where he has been a professor of materials science and engineering since 1997 and director of the Bioengineering Alliance of South Carolina, based at Clemson, since 1996. He has also been an adjunct professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Louisiana State University for the past two years. He received a B.S. degree in 1963 from Calcutta University; an M.S. degree in 1969 from Tennessee Technological University; and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1973.
