85 New Employees Join RPI in July and August

Welcome aboard! We're thrilled to have had 85 new faces join us at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in July and August.

Administration:

  • Perry Abel, Sr. Groundskeeper
  • Blanca Cantu, Environmental Specialist
  • Lee Conyers, Environmental Specialist
  • David Fitzpatrick, Environmental Specialist
  • Jason Gregoire, Environmental Specialist
  • Tyler Howard, Groundskeeper
  • Sandra Llanos, Environmental Specialist
  • Eugene Nischo, Environmental Specialist
  • Kasey Orlowski, Public Safety Officer I
  • Mark Savoie, Environmental Specialist
  • Nashon Simmons, Environmental Specialist

Athletics:

  • Julian Boehning, Assistant Coach, Men's Soccer
  • Loretta Donovan, Assistant Coach, Women's Tennis
  • Jessie House, Assistant Coach, Field Hockey
  • Claire Kruszka, Assistant Coach, Women's Basketball
  • Rebecca Taylor, Assistant Coach, Ice Hockey

Division of the Chief Information Officer:

  • John Plunkett, Broadcast Engineer

Enrollment Management:

  • Nicola Hogan, Clerk, Enrollment Management
  • Lisa Markowski, Nurse, Pipeline Programs

EMPAC:

  • Maya Krantz, Event Technician, Stage Technologies
  • MacKenzie Noel, Front of House Captain

Finance:

  • Charlei Schools, Research Accountant

Human Resources: 

  • Melissa DuQuette, E-Learning Specialist

Institute Advancement:

  • Nicole Giuliano, Sr. Prospect Management Analyst
  • Elizabeth Moffett, Gift Administration Officer
  • Estella O'Connor, Administrative Coordinator
  • Michelle Pinsonneault, Operations Specialist

Lally School of Management:

  • Jonathan Ashdown, Adjunct
  • Kedong Chen, Assistant Professor
  • Albert Chun, Sr. Lecturer
  • Tahseen Hasan, Lecturer

Office of Research: 

  • Katherine Brill, Program Manager, CASE
  • Sachini Piyoni Ekanayake Ekanayake Mudiyanselage, Research Specialist
  • Scott Goeppner, Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Daniel Gonzalez, Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Michael Gorka, Research Scientist
  • Ellie Hara, Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Rahul Kumar, Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Thilanka Munasinghe, Lead Research Specialist
  • Dhyanjyoti Nath, Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Prince Sharma, Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Shivam Sonawane, Software Engineer
  • Shirley Xu, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Office of Community Engagement and Communications:

  • Margo Coble, Associate Vice President, Marketing Communications

Office of the Provost:

  • William Gibbons, Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
  • Robert Hradsky, Vice Provost, Student Experience

Office of Strategic Alliances and Translation: 

  • Brenda Cole, Administrative Specialist

Rensselaer at Work:

  • Erin McCleave, Adjunct
  • Christine Ye, Professor of Practice

School of Architecture: 

  • Tulay Atak, Adjunct
  • Mary Kate Cahill, Adjunct
  • Noah Chasin, Adjunct
  • David Cyr, Adjunct
  • Jefferson Ellinger, Professor of Practice

School of Engineering:

  • Franck Djeumou, Assistant Professor
  • Dominik Fritz, Assistant Professor
  • Ish Kumar Jain, Assistant Professor
  • Brian McDermott, Adjunct
  • Christopher Puleo, Associate Professor
  • Andres Munoz Rojas, Assistant Professor

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences:

  • Mahir Aktunc, Lecturer
  • Sara Black, Adjunct
  • Susan Jordan, Sr. Student Services Administrator
  • Ronald Ladouceur, Adjunct
  • Jarah Moesch, Lecturer
  • Adrianna Oropello, Lecturer
  • Richard Swope, Sr. Lecturer
  • Wint Thu, Assistant Professor
  • Nikola Tomić, Adjunct

School of Science:

  • Daniel DiTursi, Sr. Lecturer
  • Mark Gilder, Sr. Lecturer
  • Andrew Horning, Assistant Professor    
  • Brian Jensen, Lecturer
  • Benjamin Larson, Assistant Professor
  • Zhiding Liang, Assistant Professor
  • Xiangyi Meng, Assistant Professor
  • Matthew Pasek, Professor
  • Michael Van Valkenburg, Professor of Practice

Student Health Center: 

  • Christian Beck, Counselor II
  • Stacey McWhinnie, Clinical Case Manager

Student Experience:

  • David Gardell, Rensselaer Union Club Staff
  • Elisabeth Gee, Rensselaer Union Club Staff
  • Ryan Keytack, Dean of Students
  • Alyssa Minott, Assistant Director of Student Activities

Undergraduate Education:

  • Cooper Gangemi, Administrative Coordinator

Please join us in congratulating these individuals on their new positions at RPI. We can't wait to see the innovation and expertise they will bring to our community! 

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