Five Women Earn Promotions at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, has announced the promotions of seven faculty members and the granting of tenure to six faculty members, five of whom also earned promotions.

Five of the eight the faculty members receiving promotions or tenure are women.

Fabienne Miller, Marsha Rolle, Jeanine Skorinko, Bengisu Tulu, and Amy Zeng

Fabienne Miller was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor in the School of Business. She joined the WPI faculty in 2007. Previously, she taught at Montana State University. Dr. Miller holds master’s degrees from Montana State University and the Ecole de Management in Lyon, France. She earned a Ph.D. in accounting at Michigan State University.

Marsha Rolle was promoted to associate professor of biomedical engineering and granted tenure. Her research concerns the synthesizing of artificial blood vessels. She has two patents pending in the field. Dr. Rolle is a graduate of Brown University, where she majored in biochemistry. She earned a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the University of Washington.

Jeanine Skorinko was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of psychology. She is the director of WPI’s Social Psychology Inquiry Lab. She is the president-elect of the New England Psychological Association. Dr. Skorinko is a graduate of Rice University in Houston, where she majored in psychology and anthropology. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Virginia.

Bengisu Tulu was promoted to associate professor in the School of Business and granted tenure. Her research focuses on management information systems with a concentration in the healthcare field. She is currently developing a smartphone application that will help people with advanced diabetes manage their health. Dr. Tulu holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s degree in information systems from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She earned a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in information systems and technology from Claremont Graduate University in California.

Amy Zeng was promoted to full professor in the School of Business. She is director of the school’s Business Operations and Industrial Engineering Program and the university’s China Project Center. She is an expert in global supply chain logistics. A graduate of the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, she earned a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in business administration from Pennsylvania State University.