Three Women Named to New Faculty Posts

Carmen-Helena Tellez will join the faculty at the University of Notre Dame this coming summer.  She will be a full professor teaching in the department of music and in the department of theology’s master of sacred music program. Dr. Tellez has been serving as director of graduate choral studies in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. For the past 20 years, she has been director of the university’s Latin American Music Center.

A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Dr. Tellez is a summa cum laude graduate of the doctoral program in music at Indiana University.

Deborah Watkins Bruner was named the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta. She has been on the Emory faculty since September. Previously, she was the Independence Professor in Nursing Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Bruner is a graduate of West Chester University. She holds a master’s degree in nursing oncology and administration from Widener University and a doctoral degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania.

Katie Boes is a new clinical instructor of clinical pathology at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. She recently completed her residency in clinical pathology at the Purdue University School of Medicine.

Dr. Boes is a summa cum laude graduate of Loyola University of Maryland. She earned a doctorate at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.