Faculty

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WADE, NATHANIEL G., Assistant Professor of Psychology. B.A., 1994, Wheaton College; M.S., 2000, Ph.D., 2003, Virginia Commonwealth.

WAGGONER, DAVID W., Emeritus Assistant Professor of Music. B.A., 1962, M.A., 1964, Indiana.

WAGGONER, KATHLEEN M., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science. B.S., 1975, Wisconsin (Lacrosse); M.S., 1978, Ph.D., 1983, Iowa State; J.D., 1987, Drake.

WAGNER, MIMI MARIE, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture. B.L.A., 1983, M.L.A., 1998, Iowa State.

WAGNER, STANLEY D., Associate Professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. D.V.M., 1974, Purdue; M.S., 1983, Kansas State.

WALDEMER, THOMAS PAUL, Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Literature. B.A., 1977, M.A., 1982, Ph.D., 1991, California (Santa Barbara).

WALKER, HOMER W., Emeritus Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition. B.S., 1951, Pennsylvania State; M.S., 1953, Ph.D., 1955, Wisconsin.

WALKER, JANICE D., Clinician in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. B.A., 1972, College of St. Scholastica; M.A., 1980, Northern Iowa; Ph.D., 1994, Iowa State.

WALLACE, ROBERT S., Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology. B.S., 1981, Wilkes; M.S., 1984, Ph.D., 1988, Rutgers.

WALSH, PATRICIA, Lecturer in Human Development and Family Studies. B.S., 1976 M.S., 1982, Iowa State.

WALSH, THOMAS E., Emeritus Associate Professor of Apparel, Educational Studies and Hospitality Management. B.S., 1953, M.A., 1962, Michigan State; Ph.D., 1980, Iowa State.

WALTER, CLYDE K. JR., Professor of Logistics, Operations and Management Information Systems. B.S.E.E., 1964, Case Western Reserve; M.B.A., 1965, Ph.D., 1972, Ohio State; M.Engr., 1972, Pennsylvania State.

WALTERS, RUSSELL C., Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. B.S., 1987, Illinois; M.S., 1988, Ph.D., 1993, Florida.

WALTON, BARBARA JOYCE, Assistant Professor of Art and Design. B.F.A., 1991, M.F.A., 1993, Iowa State; M.F.A., 1996, Drake.

WALTON, MARLEE A., Senior Lecturer in Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. B.S., 1984, M.S., 1991, Iowa State.

WANG, CHENG, Associate Professor of Economics. B.A., 1984, M.A., 1987, Fudan (China); Ph.D., 1994, Western Ontario (Canada).

WANG, KAN, Associate Professor of Agronomy. B.S., 1982, Fudan (China); Ph.D., 1987, Ghent (Belgium).

WANG, KEJIN, Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. B.S., 1982, Hefei (China); M.S., 1985, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China); Ph.D., 1994, California (Berkeley).

WANG, TONG, Assistant Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition. B.S., 1985, M.S., 1988, Shenyang College of Pharmacy (China); M.S., 1992, Arkansas; Ph.D., 1998, Iowa State.

WANG, XIAOMING, Associate Professor of Mathematics. B.S., 1984, M.S., 1987, Fudan (China); M.A., 1992, Arizona State; Ph.D., 1996, Indiana.

WANG, ZHENGDAO, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. B.E., 1996, Science and Technology (China); M.Sc., 1999, Virginia; Ph.D., 2002, Minnesota.

WANG, ZHI, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering. B.Sc., 1985, National University of Defence Tech (China); Ph.D., 1990, Glasgow.

WANNEMUEHLER, MICHAEL, Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine. B.S., 1974, Purdue; M.S., 1980, Idaho State; Ph.D., 1981, Louisville.

WARD, IRA J., Emeritus Associate Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. B.S., 1950, U.S. Military Academy; M.S., 1955, Iowa State.

WARE, WENDY ADAMS, Professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences; Professor of Biomedical Sciences. B.Mus., 1975, Westminster Choir College; D.V.M., 1982, M.S., 1986, Ohio State.

WARMAN, ROY E., Emeritus Professor of Psychology. B.A., 1949, West Virginia; M.A., 1950, Ph.D., 1958, Ohio State.

WARME, LOIS J. N., Associate Professor of Art and Design. B.S., 1968, M.A., 1972, Iowa State.

WARREN, RICHARD D., Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies; Distinguished Professor in Education. B.S., 1952, M.S., 1960, Ph.D., 1965, Iowa State.

WASS, WALLACE MILTON, Emeritus Professor of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine. B.S., 1951, D.V.M., 1953, Ph.D., 1961, Minnesota.

WATERS, W. RAY, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (Collaborator). B.S., 1985, D.V.M., 1988, Auburn; Ph.D., 1996, Iowa State.

WEBER, ERIC, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. B.A., 1995, Gustavus Adolphus College; Ph.D., 1999, Colorado.

WEBER, ROBERT J., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. B.S., 1963, M.S., 1966, Ph.D., 1967, Iowa State;

WEBER, THOMAS A., Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy. B.S., 1956, De Paul; Ph.D., 1961, Notre Dame.

WEBER, W. WAYNE, Emeritus Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. B.S., 1968, M.S., 1970, Ph.D., 1978, Iowa State.

WECHSLER, LORRAINE, Emeritus Professor of Greenlee School Journalism/Communication. B.A., 1946, Hunter; M.S., 1947, M.A., 1952, Columbia.

WECHSLER, MONROE S., Emeritus Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., 1944, City University of New York; A.M., 1950, Ph.D., 1953, Columbia.

WEDIN, WALTER F., Emeritus Professor of Agronomy. B.S., 1950, M.S., 1951, Ph.D., 1953, Wisconsin.

WEERASINGHE, ANANDA, Associate Professor of Mathematics. B.S., 1979, Colombo; Ph.D., 1986, Minnesota.

WEI, MEIFEN, Assistant Professor of Psychology. B.A., 1983, Soochow (Taiwan); M.A., 1985, Tunghai (Taiwan); M.A., 1998, Ph.D., 2000, Missouri.

WEISS, HARRY J., Emeritus Professor of Aerospace Engineering; Emeritus Professor of Mathematics. B.S., 1947, M.S., 1949, D.Sc., 1951, Carnegie Mellon.

WELK, GREGORY, Assistant Professor of Health and Human Performance. B.A., 1988, Illinois; M.A., 1989, Iowa; Ph.D., 1994, Arizona State.

WELLS, BETTY LYNN, Professor of Sociology. B.A., 1972, Emporia; M.A., 1974, Wyoming; Ph.D., 1980, Iowa State.

WELLS, GARY L., Professor of Psychology; Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. B.S., 1973, Kansas State; Ph.D., 1977, Ohio State.

WELSHONS, WILLIAM J., Emeritus Professor of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology. A.B., 1949, M.A., 1952, Ph.D., 1954, California (Berkeley).

WENDEL, JONATHAN F., Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology and Chair of the Department. B.S., 1976, Michigan; M.S., 1980, Ph.D., 1983, North Carolina.

WENDELL, DENNIS C., Emeritus Associate Professor, Library. B.S., 1967, Iowa State; M.A., 1969, Iowa.

WENINGER, QUINN R. A., Associate Professor of Economics. B.Sc., 1989, Alberta (Canada); Ph.D., 1995, Maryland.

WERBEL, JAMES D., Professor of Management. B.A., 1972, M.S., 1974, Wisconsin; Ph.D., 1980, Northwestern.

WERNER-WILSON, RONALD, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies. B.S., 1988, M.A., 1990, Georgia State; Ph.D., 1993, Georgia.

WESLEY, IRENE VARELAS, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (Collaborator). B.A., 1965, California (Los Angeles); M.A., 1967, California (Irvine); Ph.D., 1973, California (Los Angeles).

WESTGATE, MARK E., Professor of Agronomy. B.S., 1974, M.S., 1977, Dayton; Ph.D., 1983, Illinois.

WHALEN, DONALD F., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. B.A., 1970, M.A.E., 1971, Northern Iowa; Ph.D., 1988, Iowa State.

WHEELOCK, THOMAS D., Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering; University Professor. B.S., 1949, Ph.D., 1958, Iowa State.

WHIGHAM, DAVID KEITH, Emeritus Professor of Agronomy. B.S., 1966, M.S., 1969, Ph.D., 1971, Iowa State.

WHISNANT, KERRY LEWIS, Professor of Physics and Astronomy. B.S., 1976, Missouri (Rolla); Ph.D., 1982, M.S., 1982, Wisconsin.

WHITAKER, FAYE PAULI, Emeritus Associate Professor of English. A.B., 1963, Lakeland; M.A., 1965, Western Michigan; Ph.D., 1974, Northwestern.

WHITAKER, JAMES W., Emeritus Associate Professor of History. A.B., 1960, Oberlin; M.S., 1962, Ph.D., 1965, Wisconsin.

WHITE, BERNARD J., Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry; University Professor. B.S., 1958, Portland; M.A., 1961, Ph.D., 1963, Oregon.

WHITE, DAVID J., Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. B.S., 1997, Missouri; M.S., 1999, Ph.D., 2000, Iowa State.

WHITE, GARY C., Emeritus Professor of Music; Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. B.M.E., 1959, B.Mus., 1961, Kansas; M.M., 1964, Ph.D., 1969, Michigan State.

WHITE, PAMELA JUNE, Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition; University Professor; Interim Dean of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. B.S., 1972, M.S., 1974, Washington; Ph.D., 1981, Iowa State.

WHITE, WENDY S., Associate Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition. B.S., 1980, Cornell; RD, 1982, Massachusettes General; M.S., 1986, Ph.D., 1990, Cornell.

WHITEFORD, MICHAEL B., Professor of Anthropology; Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. B.A., 1967, Beloit; M.A., 1970, Ph.D., 1972, California (Berkeley).

WHITHAM, STEVEN ALAN, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology. B.S., 1990, Iowa State; M.S., 1992, Ph.D., 1995, California (Berkeley).

WHITMER, JOHN M. JR., Emeritus Associate Professor of Political Science. B.A., 1957, Wisconsin; M.A., 1959, Iowa; M.S., 1975, Ph.D., 1979, Iowa State.

WICKERSHAM, THOMAS W., Emeritus Professor of Animal Science. B.S., 1941, M.S., 1954, Iowa State.

WICKRAMA, K. A. S., Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies. B.S., 1971, Sri Lanka; Ph.D., 1992, Iowa State.

WIDRLECHNER, MARK P., Assistant Professor of Agronomy (Collaborator); Assistant Professor of Horticulture (Collaborator). B.S., 1977, Michigan State; M.S., 1980, Illinois; Ph.D., 1982, Minnesota.

WIEDENHOEFT, MARY H., Associate Professor of Agronomy. B.S., 1980, Iowa State; M.S., 1982, Ph.D., 1986, Washington State.

WIEDERHOLT, TED W., Adjunct Instructor in Naval Science. B.A., 1998, Iowa State.

WIESE, WILLIAM HENRY, Associate Professor, Library. B.B.A., 1966, Iowa; B.A., 1983, Northern Iowa; M.A., 1984, Iowa.

WILCOX, MARY KAY, Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning; Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture. B.A., 1983, MALA, 1991, Wisconsin.

WILDER, DAVID R., Emeritus Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. B.S., 1951, M.S., 1952, Ph.D., 1958, Iowa State.

WILKE, VICKI L., Adjunct Instructor in Veterinary Clinical Sciences. B.S., 1994, Wisconsin (Stevens Point); D.V.M., 1998, Wisconsin.

WILLHAM, RICHARD L., Emeritus Professor of Animal Science; Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture. B.S., 1954, Oklahoma State; M.S., 1955, Ph.D., 1960, Iowa State.

WILLIAMS, DAVID LEWIS, Emeritus Professor of Curriculum and Instruction; Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Education and Studies; University Professor. B.S., 1959, Oklahoma State; M.S., 1965, Kansas State; Ed.D., 1969, Oklahoma State.

WILLIAMS, FRED D., Emeritus Professor of Microbiology. B.A., 1960, M.S., 1962, Ph.D., 1964, Rutgers.

WILLIAMS, SALLY KEMP, Emeritus Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies; Emeritus Professor of Curriculum and Instruction. B.S., 1962, M.A., 1966, Michigan State; Ph.D., 1975, Pennsylvania State.

WILLIAMS, STANLEY, Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy. B.S., 1954, Nebraska Wesleyan; Ph.D., 1962, Rensselaer.

WILLSON, LEE ANNE, Professor of Physics and Astronomy; University Professor. B.A., 1968, Harvard; M.A., 1970, Ph.D., 1973, Michigan.

WILLSON, STEPHEN, Professor of Mathematics. A.B., 1968, Harvard; M.A., 1970, Ph.D., 1973, Michigan.

WILSEY, BRIAN J., Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology. B.S., 1986, Henderson State; M.S., 1988, Louisiana State; Ph.D., 1995, Syracuse.

WILSON, DAVID BALL, Professor of History; Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies. B.A., 1963, Wabash; Ph.D., 1968, Johns Hopkins.

WILSON, DOYLE EDWARD, Emeritus Professor of Animal Science. B.S., 1967, M.S., 1982, Ph.D., 1984, Iowa State.

WILSON, GEORGE P. JR., Emeritus Professor of English. A.B., 1939, Guilford; M.A., 1941, North Carolina; Ph.D., 1958, Columbia.

WILSON, JAMES A., Associate Professor of Mathematics. B.A., 1973, California (Los Angeles); M.S., 1975, Ph.D., 1978, Wisconsin.

WILSON, LENNOX N., Emeritus Professor of Aerospace Engineering. B.A.Sc., 1953, M.A.Sc., 1954, Ph.D., 1959, Toronto.

WILSON, LESTER A., Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition. B.S., 1969, M.S., 1971, Oregon State; Ph.D., 1975, California (Davis).

WILT, ALAN FREESE, Emeritus Professor of History. B.A., 1959, Depauw; M.A., 1960, Ph.D., 1969, Michigan.

WINAKOR, THORA GEITEL, Emeritus Professor of Apparel, Educational Studies and Hospitality Management; Mary B. Welch Distinguished Professor in Family and Consumer Sciences. A.B., 1950, Illinois; M.S., 1951, Drexel; Ph.D., 1960, Iowa State.

WINDOM, KENNETH, Associate Professor of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences. B.A., 1972, West Georgia; Ph.D., 1976, Pennsylvania State.

WINER, ELIOT H., Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., 1992, Ohio State; M.S., 1994, Ph.D., 1999, New York (Buffalo).

WINKIEL, LAURA A., Assistant Professor of English. B.B.A., 1987, Notre Dame; M.A., 1991, New York; Ph.D., 1999, Notre Dame.

WINSOR, DOROTHY ANN, Professor of English. B.A., 1969, Aquinas; M.A., 1970, Michigan; Ph.D., 1979, Wayne State.

WINTER, MARY, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies; Associate Dean of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. B.S., 1961, Minnesota; M.S., 1966, Ph.D., 1970, Pennsylvania State.

WINTER, MATTHEW D., Assistant Professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. B.A., 1994, John Hopkins; D.V.M., 1998, Cornell.

WINTERSTEEN, WENDY, Professor of Entomology; Senior Associate Dean of the College of Agriculture. B.S., 1978, Kansas State; Ph.D., 1988, Iowa State.

WIPF, TERRY J., Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. B.S., 1974, M.S., 1979, Ph.D., 1983, Nebraska.

WISE, CHRISTINE L. LETRAN. Lecturere in Apparel, Educational Studies and Hospitality Management. B.A., 1981, Northern Iowa; M.S., 1992, North Texas; M.B.A., 1994, Iowa State.

WISE, ROGER P., Professor of Plant Pathology (Collaborator). B.S., 1976, Ph.D., 1983, Michigan State.

WISNER, ROBERT NEWELL, Professor of Economics; University Professor. B.S., 1962, M.S., 1964, Michigan State; Ph.D., 1967, Tennessee.

WISSINK, MARSHA H., Adjunct Instructor in Health and Human Performance. B.S., 1992, M.Ed., 2002, Iowa State.

WOHN, FRED KRAMER, Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy. B.S., 1962, Louisiana State; M.S., 1964, Ph.D., 1967, Indiana.

WOLF, JOHN WILLIAM CLARK, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies. B.A., 1986, Oberlin College; M.A., 1989, Ph.D., 1993, Arizona.

WOLFF, NORMA H., Emeritus Associate Professor of Anthropology. B.S., 1955, Butler; M.A., 1965, Michigan State; Ph.D., 1985, Indiana.

WOLFORD, DONALD J. JR., Professor of Physics and Astronomy. B.S., 1971, Rensselaer; M.S., 1974, Ph.D., 1978, Illinois.

WOLINS, LEROY, Emeritus Professor of Psychology; Emeritus Professor of Statistics. B.A., 1951, M.A., 1953, Ph.D., 1956, Ohio State.

WOLT, JEFFREY D., Professor of Agronomy. B.S., 1973, Colorado State; M.S., 1976, Ph.D., 1979, Auburn.

WOLTER, JAMES E., Clinician in Aerospace Engineering. B.A., 1964, Morningside College; M.S.E., 1969, Drake.

WOMERSLEY, JOHN, Professor of Physics and Astronomy (Collaborator). B.A., 1983, Ph.D., 1986, M.A., 1987, Corpus Christi College (Oxford).

WONG, DAVID MICHAEL, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. B.V.M., 1995, D.V.M., 1997, Michigan State; M.S., 2003, Virginia Polytechnic.

WONG, JOHN KONG-FAH, Associate Professor of Marketing. B.A., 1974, William Penn; M.B.A., 1976, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Ph.D., 1981, Alabama.

WONG, JOHNNY S., Professor of Computer Science. B.S., 1977, Hong Kong; M.S., 1981, Ph.D., 1986, Sydney.

WOO, L. KEITH, Professor of Chemistry. B.S., 1977, Harvey Mudd; Ph.D., 1984, Stanford.

WOOD, SHIRLEY JEAN, Emeritus Associate Professor of Health and Human Performance. B.S., 1957, M.S., 1959, Indiana; Ph.D., 1971, Illinois.

WOODMAN, WILLIAM F., Professor of Sociology; University Professor. B.S., 1968, Ph.D., 1972, Oklahoma State.

WOODS, ROGER CLIVE, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Cambridge; D.Phil., 1980, M.A., 1980, Oxford.

WOOL, GREGORY J., Associate Professor, Library. B.A., 1974, Texas; M.A., 1983, Indiana; M.L.S., 1985, Rutgers.

WOOLLEY, DONALD GRANT, Emeritus Professor of Agronomy. B.S., 1951, M.S., 1956, Utah State; Ph.D., 1959, Iowa State.

WORK, GEORGE PAUL, Professor of Music. B.Mus., 1979, M.M., 1981, Eastman School of Music.

WORTMAN, MAX S. JR., Professor of Management; Distinguished Professor in Business. B.S., 1956, Iowa State; Ph.D., 1962, Minnesota.

WOTEKI, CATHERINE, Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition; Dean of the College of Agriculture. B.S., 1969, Mary Washington College; Ph.D., 1974, M.S., 1974, Virginia Polytechnic.

WRAY, PAUL H., Professor of Natural Resource Ecology and Management. B.S., 1968, Ph.D., 1974, Iowa State.

WRIGHT, FRED M., Professor of Mathematics. B.A., 1944, Denison; M.S., 1949, Ph.D., 1953, Northwestern.

WU, HUAIQING, Associate Professor of Statistics. B.S., 1988, M.S., 1991, Beijing (China); Ph.D., 1997, Michigan.

WU, XIAOQING, Assistant Professor of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences. B.S., 1983, Hanzhou (China); M.S., 1986, Chinese Academia Sinica; Ph.D., 1992, California (Los Angeles).

WU, ZHIJUN, Associate Professor of Mathematics. B.S., 1982, M.A., 1985, Huazhong (China); Ph.D., 1991, Rice.

WUNDER, WILLIAM W., Emeritus Professor of Animal Science. B.S., 1958, Iowa State; M.S., 1964, Ph.D., 1967, Michigan State.

WUNDERLICH, MARK E., Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies. A.B., 1995, Harvard; Ph.D., 2001, Arizona.

WURTELE, EVE S., Professor of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology; Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition. B.S., 1971, California (Santa Cruz); Ph.D., 1980, California (Los Angeles).