WAUKESHA – Acting on recommendations from academic departments and the University of Wisconsin Colleges, the UW Board of Regents has granted promotions to Asif D. Habib, and Joseph Otu. They advance from associate professor with tenure to full professor status. Both live in Waukesha.
Habib has been teaching chemistry at UW-Waukesha since 1989, receiving his Ph.D. in bio-organic chemistry from Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, physics, and mathematics and a master’s in organic chemistry from the University of The Punjab, Pakistan. In addition to teaching, he collaborates with researchers at UW-Madison on a project to convert paper waste materials into fuel and with researchers at The Catholic University of America on a study of drug uptake by microorganisms. He has authored a Student Study Guide and Teacher’s Manual for Biochemistry and, in 1999, received a UW Colleges Kaplan Fellowship for modernizing biochemistry labs.
After earning his Ph.D. in physics in 1990 from the University of Alabama, Otu remained there for two more years as a postdoctoral fellow before coming to teach at UW-Waukesha as an assistant professor. He has a bachelor’s degree in math and physics from the University of Nigeria and a master’s from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. His research has focused on studying the behavior of electromagnetic waves in warped time-space, expanding on Einstein’s theory of relativity, as well as on M-theory, which attempts to explain the nature and interaction of the fundamental particles of nature. Not only has he produced a number of scholarly papers, he also has worked with students in collaborative research. He instituted the annual egg-drop contest here, challenging both university and lower-grade students to creatively design protective packaging for the delicate objects and stimulating their interest in science. His name was included in the 1993 inaugural edition of Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.
Promotions are effective July 1, when the state’s new fiscal year begins.
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