Four faculty members with backgrounds in engineering, medicine and anthropology will soon join the executive committee of the University of Michigan’s central faculty governance system.
Michael Atzmon 
Damani Partridge 
Kanakadurga Singer
The Senate Assembly voted electronically March 15 and 16 to elect the following members to the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs:
- Michael Atzmon, professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences, and of materials science and engineering, College of Engineering.
- Damani Partridge, associate professor of anthropology, and of Afroamerican and African studies, LSA.
- Kanakadurga Singer, Valerie Castle Opipari Professor of Pediatrics, associate professor of pediatrics, and of molecular and integrative physiology, Medical School.
- Frank Pelosi, associate professor of internal medicine in the Cardiac Electrophysiology Section, Medical School.
Their terms will start May 1.
As the top vote-getters, Atzmon, Partridge and Singer will serve three-year terms, succeeding SACUA members Ivo Dinov, Deirdre Spencer and Chair Colleen Conway. Pelosi will serve for one year, completing the remainder of Vice Chair Annalisa Manera’s term.
MaryJo Banasik, director of the Faculty Senate Office, said there was a tie between Pelosi and another candidate, Donald Freeman, professor of education. She said Freeman deferred to Pelosi, who accepted the seat.
SACUA is the executive arm of the university’s central faculty governance system, which includes the Senate Assembly and the Faculty Senate.
The Senate Assembly consists of 74 elected faculty members from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses. The Faculty Senate is made up of all professorial faculty, librarians, full-time research faculty, executive officers and deans.
