Six New Full-Time Faculty at UPB

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford announces the addition of six full-time faculty members for the 2009-10 academic year.

They are Claudine M. Cooper, instructor of hospitality management; Larry W. Kerns, visiting instructor of petroleum engineering; Dr. John C. Levey, assistant professor of music; Dr. Sooh-Rhee Ryu, visiting assistant professor of political science; Dr. Jesse Steinberg, assistant professor of philosophy; and D. Reece Wilson, assistant professor of education.

Cooper holds a master of science degree in hospitality and tourism from the University of Wisconsin – Stout. She has 22 years’ experience in hospitality, international banking and technology as well as four years in teaching college-level hospitality and business programs. She is a past president of the Minnesota chapter of the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International.

Kerns, a trained engineer, has 28 years’ experience in the petroleum industry as a petroleum engineer, lab instructor at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology’s petroleum engineering department and as a petroleum technology instructor. Before coming to Pitt-Bradford, Kerns was a field engineer for a southeastern Ohio independent producer with 500 wells and 200 miles of pipeline.

Levey earned his doctoral degree in composition and music theory from the University of Michigan. In addition to serving as a graduate student instructor at Michigan, Levey has taught music theory for the Michigan Youth Ensembles program and has experience in conducting and music technology. He is also a proficient keyboardist. In addition to teaching at Pitt-Bradford, Levey conducts the College-Community Choir.

Ryu earned her doctoral degree in political science from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where she was both an adjunct instructor and graduate instructor. Her primary teaching and research interests are in international relations and comparative politics with particular focus upon the politics and economics of developing countries. At Pitt-Bradford, she teaches Introduction to International Affairs, World Politics and American Foreign Relations.

Steinberg earned his doctoral degree in philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His areas of specialty are metaphysics, philosophy of science and philosophy of mind. Before coming to Pitt-Bradford, he taught at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of California, Riverside; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; University of California, Los Angeles; and University of California, Santa Barbara.

Wilson holds a master of science degree in education from Clarion University of Pennsylvania and is a doctoral student in reading education at the University of Pittsburgh. He is certified to teach elementary education in Pennsylvania and has taught first grade at St. Joseph Grade School in Lucinda and a pre-kindergarten class at Clarion’s Earl R. Siler Children’s Learning Complex, where he later became director. He has also taught education classes at Clarion. He teaches early child development at Pitt-Bradford.

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