POTSDAM – Clarkson University announced some faculty promotions and appointments during the fall 2019 semester.

• Ohbet Cheon has been appointed assistant professor of healthcare management at Clarkson University. She will be based at the Capital Region Campus in Schenectady, N.Y. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Texas A&M University, her master of public administration and public policy from Seoul National University, and her bachelor of arts in political science from Ewha Womans University. Her research interests are in analyzing decision-making related to strategic change initiatives in hospitals, assessing health disparities, and designing, implementing and evaluating innovative health services interventions.

• Iman Paul has been appointed assistant professor of consumer and organizational studies at Clarkson. He received his Ph.D. in marketing from Georgia Institute of Technology and his master of business administration from George Washington University. Paul previously served as an instructor and teaching assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology. Before that, he worked in industry as a business manager (India and Bangladesh) at Johnson & Johnson, manager-business strategy at DTC Perspectives, business manager at Akzo Nobel, and area manager at SC Johnson. His research interests are in identity and self-concepts, group composition and its influence on consumption, and judgment and decision making.

• Lauren D. Petley has been appointed assistant professor of psychology at Clarkson. She is a patent-holding cognitive neuroscientist whose professional experiences have been primarily in applied settings, including Canada’s National Research Council, the Biomedical Translational Imaging Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia (with cross-appointments at Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Center), and Starkey Hearing Technologies. She has also served as a research associate at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Petley's research expertise lies at the intersection of hearing, attention, and mediating factors like task difficulty and cognitive skill. The goals of her research are not only to improve understanding of auditory processing and selective attention, but also to gain insight into clinical conditions where these capacities may be compromised, and to develop objective diagnostic tools for application in these and other populations. She received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Ottawa and her bachelor of science degree in behavioral neuroscience from Laurentian University.