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Five UNA Faculty Approved for Leave

Dec. 06, 2024



Michelle R. Eubanks , UNA, at meubanks@una.edu, 256.765.4392

FLORENCE, AL – Five ӣ professors have been approved for faculty development leave. They are:

  • Jian Chen, Associate Professor of Geography and Graduate Coordinator, for the Spring 2026 semester;
  • Brian Dempsey, Associate Professor of History, for the Fall 2025 semester.
  • Ian Loeppky, Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities, for the Fall 2025 semester;
  • Melissa Moore, Professor of Geology, for the Fall 2025 semester; and
  • Sunhui Sim, Professor of Geography, for the Spring 2026 semester.

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The ӣ is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; Education and Human Sciences; and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. UNA Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I as part of the Atlantic Sun and United Athletic conferences. The ӣ is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: and .