Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (12/2/2016)

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Appointments

Maenette Ah Nee-Benham was named chancellor of the University of Hawaii-West Oahu. Ms. Benham is dean of the School of Hawaiian Knowledge on the university’s Manoa campus.

Rabbi Ari Berman, head of Hechal Shlomo Jewish Heritage Center in Jerusalem, will become president of Yeshiva University in July.

Beverly Davenport was selected as chancellor of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, making her its first female leader. Now interim president of the University of Cincinnati, she will begin her new post, pending board approval, on March 1.

Dennis DePerro will become president of St. Bonaventure University in June. He is now dean of the Purcell School of Professional Studies at Le Moyne College.

E. Clayton Hess, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Lincoln Memorial University, will become the institution’s president in July. He will succeed B. James Dawson, who plans to step down next year.

Nagi Naganathan was named president of the Oregon Institute of Technology. Mr. Naganathan is dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Toledo and previously served as interim president there, from 2014 to 2015.

Jennifer Orlikoff was appointed president of Potomac State College of West Virginia University. She has served as interim president since July 1.

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Resignations

Debora Spar, president of Barnard College since 2008, will step down in March to become president and chief executive of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She will be its first female leader.

CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS

Appointments

Jonathan Holloway, dean of Yale College and a professor of African-American studies, history, and American studies at Yale University, to provost at Northwestern University.

Lester Johnson, assistant dean of rural health initiatives and professor of clinical surgery, to vice chancellor for academic affairs at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport.

OTHER TOP ADMINISTRATORS

Appointments

Christopher Brown, former vice president for research in the University of North Carolina system, to vice president for research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Shannon Cullinan, associate vice president for university relations and executive director of campaign administration, to vice president for finance at the University of Notre Dame.

Kyle Edgington, associate vice president for development, to vice president for development and alumni relations at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Kevin Heaney, acting vice president for development at Princeton University, was appointed its first vice president for advancement. Mr. Heaney has worked in fund-raising leadership for more than 20 years.

Brian Hutzley, vice president for finance and administration at Colgate University, to vice president and chief financial officer at Centre College.

Steven Libutti, professor and vice chair of the department of surgery and a professor in the genetics department at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, and director at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, to vice chancellor for cancer programs at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences and director of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey at Rutgers University.

Raphael Moffett, vice president for student affairs at Langston University, to vice president for student affairs at Texas Southern University.

John Tyson, president of Rochester College (Mich.), to vice president for advancement at Faulkner University.

Luis Vazquez, associate vice president for research integrity, to interim vice president for research at New Mexico State University.

DEANS

Appointments

Sharon Matusik, senior associate dean of faculty and research and professor of strategy and entrepreneurship, to interim dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Resignations

Charles Nelson plans to step down as dean of the law school at Faulkner University in June. He will have led the school for 13 years.

OTHER ADMINISTRATORS

Appointments

Gilbert Collins, director of graduate student life, to director of global health programs and associate director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Matthew Fienup, an economist in the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting at California Lutheran University, to executive director of the center.

Mickey Guridy, senior associate athletic director of internal operations, to interim athletic director at Liberty University.

Myung Hee Cho, senior professor of scenic design, to associate dean of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the School of Theater, Film, and Television at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Veronica Thierry Mallett, professor of medicine, to an additional role, senior vice president for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, at Meharry Medical College.

Debbie McLoud, director of employee services, to interim associate vice chancellor for human resources at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Resignations

Jeff Barber, athletic director at Liberty University.

Allan Case, director of admissions at Albany State University and Darton State College.

FACULTY

Appointments

Robert McDonnell, a former Virginia governor and an alumnus of Regent University, will join the university in January as a distinguished professor. He will teach in the Robertson School of Government and help establish the Governor’s Center for Federalism and Civility, a program meant to help states understand their role in a federal society. Mr. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were found guilty of federal corruption charges in 2014, but the conviction was vacated by the Supreme Court in 2016.

Cornel West, the African-American-studies scholar, will return to teach at Harvard University after 14 years away from the institution. He will hold joint appointments in the Harvard Divinity School and the department of African and African American studies as a professor of the practice of public philosophy. In 2002, Mr. West broke from Harvard to teach at Princeton University after a dispute with the president at the time, Lawrence Summers.

AWARDS

The following scholars from American universities were elected fellows of the American Physical Society in 2016, in recognition of their contributions to physics through research, leadership, or education. The full list, which also includes fellows employed by national laboratories, government agencies, companies, organizations, and overseas institutions, is on the society’s website.

Alexander G. Abanov, Stony Brook University

Nicholas Abbott, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Mina Aganagic, University of California at Berkeley

Ian Appelbaum, University of Maryland at College Park

Philip Argyres, University of Cincinnati

Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology

Richard Averitt, University of California at San Diego

Thomas W. Baumgarte, Bowdoin College

Rachel Bean, Cornell University

Timothy C. Beers, University of Notre Dame

L. Douglas Bell, California Institute of Technology

Andrea L. Bertozzi, University of California at Los Angeles

Eric R. Bittner, University of Houston

Ken Bloom, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Jose A. Boedo, University of California at San Diego

Todd A. Brun, University of Southern California

James M. Caruthers, Purdue University

Fausto Cattaneo, University of Chicago

Simon Catterall, Syracuse University

Yong P. Chen, Purdue University

Vladimir Chernyak, Wayne State University

Kyeongjae Cho, University of Texas at Dallas

Daniel Chung, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Stéphane Coutu, Pennsylvania State University at University Park

Csaba Csáki, Cornell University

Raissa M. D’Souza, University of California at Davis

Gabor David, Stony Brook University

William Detmold, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Aaron Dinner, University of Chicago

Aaron Dominguez, Catholic University of America

Megan Donahue, Michigan State University

Axel Drees, Stony Brook University

Yossef Elabd, Texas A&M University at College Station

Peter Engels, Washington State University

Hume A. Feldman, University of Kansas

Gregory A. Fiete, University of Texas at Austin

Laura Gagliardi, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Ahmed Ghoniem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

George N. Gibson, University of Connecticut at Storrs

Steven Goldfarb, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Maarten F. Golterman, San Francisco State University

Paolo Gondolo, University of Utah

Ilya Gruzberg, Ohio State University

Robert Grzywacz, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Jack Harris, Yale University

Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University

Sascha Hilgenfeldt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Christopher Hill, Ohio State University

Kalina Hristova, Johns Hopkins University

Subramanian Iyer, University of California at Los Angeles

Jamal Jalilian-Marian, City University of New York Bernard M. Baruch College

Anderson Janotti, University of Delaware

Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Ohio State University

Mercouri Kanatzidis, Northwestern University

Andreas Karch, University of Washington

Brian Keating, University of California at San Diego

Krzysztof Kempa, Boston College

Sinan Keten, Northwestern University

Karol Lang, University of Texas at Austin

Adrian Lee, University of California at Berkeley

Laura H. Lewis, Northeastern University

J. Timothy Londergan, Indiana University at Bloomington

Robert Lucchese, Texas A&M University at College Station

Nina Markovic, Johns Hopkins University

Beverley McKeon, California Institute of Technology

Jianwei (John) Miao, University of California at Los Angeles

Miguel Mostafá, Pennsylvania State University at University Park

Pietro Musumeci, University of California at Los Angeles

Ágnes Mócsy, Pratt Institute

IIya Nemenman, Emory University

Brian W. O’Shea, Michigan State University

Kathryn M. Olesko, Georgetown University

Stephen Padalino, State University of New York at Geneseo

Matteo Pasquali, Rice University

Natalia Perkins, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Andreas Piepke, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa

Mason Porter, University of California at Los Angeles

John D. Prestage, California Institute of Technology

Clement Pryke, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Ganpati Ramanath, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Wouter-Jan Rappel, University of California at San Diego

George H. Rawitscher, University of Connecticut at Storrs

Cindy Regal, University of Colorado at Boulder

Mary T. Rodgers, Wayne State University

Leonid Rokhinson, Purdue University

Zvi Rusak, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Greg Salamo, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Charles A. Schmuttenmaer, Yale University

Robin Selinger, Kent State University

Eva Silverstein, Stanford University

Ivan Smalyukh, University of Colorado at Boulder

Sunil V. Somalwar, Rutgers University

Jonathan E. Spanier, Drexel University

Keivan Stassun, Vanderbilt University

Timothy J. Stelzer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

John Stewart, West Virginia University

Sean Sun, Johns Hopkins University

Rebecca A. Surman, University of Notre Dame

Jay X. Tang, Brown University

Humberto Terrones, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

John Texter, Eastern Michigan University

Emanuel Tutuc, University of Texas at Austin

Jeffrey Urbach, Georgetown University

Michele Vallisneri, California Institute of Technology

Kalman Varga, Vanderbilt University

Massimo Vergassola, University of California at San Diego

Feng Wang, University of California at Berkeley

Haiyan Wang, Purdue University

Daniel Whiteson, University of California at Irvine

Stéphane Willocq, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Jianzhong Wu, University of California at Riverside

Mingming Wu, Cornell University

Alan Wuosmaa, University of Connecticut

John Wygant, University of Minnesota

Judith C. Yang, University of Pittsburgh

Alexander L. Yarin, University of Illinois at Chicago

Steven W. Yates, University of Kentucky

Peide (Peter) Ye, Purdue University

Edward Yu, Iowa State University

Richard W. Ziolkowski, University of Arizona

Igor Zutic, University at Buffalo

Martin Zwierlein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DEATHS

Emerson Louis Besch, 88, former executive associate dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Florida, died on November 16.

Patricia Burns, 77, former senior associate vice president at USF Health and dean of the College of Nursing at the University of South Florida, died on September 21.

Denton Cooley, 96, founder and president of the Texas Heart Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, died on November 18.

Carroll Blake Gambrell Jr., 91, former vice president for research and dean emeritus of engineering at Mercer University, died on November 17.

William Harvey, 84, dean emeritus of the Robert H. McKinney School of Law and professor emeritus of law at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, died on November 17.