Thanks to everyone who participated in the nomination and voting process during our recent elections. Congratulations to all our newly elected staff and faculty leaders!

We congratulate the following faculty and staff on their election to positions on CLAS governance bodies during the spring 2022 election. Thank you to all faculty and staff who participated in the election as voters or as candidates.

Executive Committee:

• Mark Blumberg, Psychological and Brain Sciences
• Teresa Mangum, Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies
• Ana Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Spanish and Portuguese
• Undergraduate Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee:
• Melissa Bates, Health and Human Physiology
• Jill Beckman, Linguistics
• Asha Bhandary, Philosophy

Graduate Educational Policy Committee:

• Bryan Phillips, Biology
• Kate Magsamen-Conrad, Communication Studies
• Ana Merino, Spanish and Portuguese

CLAS Staff Council:

• Nicole Villanueva, Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
• Allison Rockwell, Computer Science
• Mallory Hellman, CLAS Administration
• Sylvia Gomez, CLAS Administration
• Leyre Castro Ruiz, Psychological and Brain Sciences

CLAS Organizational Representative to UI Staff Council:

• Karen Noggle, CLAS Administration

Faculty Assembly:

• Ionut Chifan, Mathematics
• Jennifer Rogers, Health and Human Physiology
• David Gooblar, English
• Kendra Strand, Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures
• Sang-Seok Yoon, Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures
• William Menefield, School of Music

CLAS seat on Graduate Council:

• Eloy Barragan, Dance

Referendum 1 and Referendum 2 both passed with majority votes.