Transitions: New President at Georgia Gwinnett College, Chief of Vanderbilt U. to Step Down

Chief executives

Appointments

John Avendano, president and chief executive of Kankakee Community College, has been named president of Florida State College at Jacksonville. He will replace Kevin Hyde, who has served as interim president since Cynthia Bioteau’s retirement.

Michael F. Barry, assistant dean and practitioner-in-residence in the School of Law at St. Mary’s University, in Texas, has been named president and dean of South Texas College of Law Houston. He will succeed Donald J. Guter.

Jerry L. Buckley, assistant superintendent and vice president for academic affairs at the College of the Canyons, will become president of Reedley College on June 1. He will succeed Sandra Caldwell, who has been named executive director of the Wyoming Community College Commission.

Patrick Guilfoile, provost at University of Wisconsin-Stout, has been named interim chancellor. He will replace Robert Meyer, who plans to retire.

Jaffus Hardrick, interim president of Florida Memorial University since July 2018, has been named to the post permanently.

Cory Hines, vice president for enrollment at Dallas Baptist University, became president of Howard Payne University on April 1. He replaced Paul W. Armes, who had served as interim president since June 2018.

Tyrone Jackson, vice president for Utica Campus and administrative services at Hinds Community College, has been named president of Mississippi Delta Community College. He will be the college’s first African-American president when he takes office on July 1 and will suceed Larry Nabors, who plans to retire.

Thomas A. Johnson, assistant vice president of student affairs at Tyler Junior College, became president of Lamar State College-Orange in September. He succeeded J. Michael Shahan, who retired after 24 years in the role.

Jann Luciana Joseph, interim chancellor of Indiana University at South Bend, will become president of Georgia Gwinnett College on July 1. She will replace Mary Beth Walker, who has served as interim president since Stanley C. Preczewski’s retirement.

Catherine Koverola, provost and senior adviser at African Leadership University, in Mauritius, will become president of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford and Titusville on June 1. She will replace Lawrence Feick, who has served as interim president of both campuses since Livingston Alexander retired in June 2018.

Mark McCormick, interim president of Middlesex County College, has been named to the post permanently. He became interim president when Joann La Perla-Morales retired in June 2018.

Rebecca Rowley, president of Clovis Community College, has been named president at Santa Fe Community College. She will replace Cecilia Y.M. Cervantes, who has served as interim president since Randy W. Grissom’s retirement in August 2017.

Andy Tompkins, former president and chief executive of the Kansas Board of Regents, was named interim president at Wichita State University. He will replace Rick Muma, who has served as acting president since John Bardo stepped down in January for medical reasons. Bardo died on March 12.

Framroze Virjee, interim president of California State University at Fullerton since January 2018, has been named to the post permanently.

John W. Wells, provost of Emory & Henry College, will become president on July 1. He will succeed Jake B. Schrum, who plans to retire.

Resignations

Barbara K. Mistick, president of Wilson College, in Pennsylvania, since 2011, plans to step down at the end of the academic year. She will become president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in September.

Miriam E. Nelson, president of Hampshire College since July 2018, has resigned.

Nicholas S. Zeppos, chancellor of Vanderbilt University since 2008, plans to step down on August 15. He will return to the faculty after a yearlong sabbatical.

Retirements

Patricia Skinner, president of Gaston College since 1994, plans to retire in March 2020.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Martin Berger, dean of faculty and vice president for academic affairs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has been named provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.

Wendy Sherman Heckler, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Otterbein University, has been named to the post permanently.

Barbara J. Johnson, vice president for accreditation relations for the Higher Learning Commission, has been named vice president for academic affairs at Arkansas Tech University.

Mark T. Mitchell, professor and chair of government at Patrick Henry College, has been named dean of academic affairs.

Chad Patrizi, vice president and dean of the School of Business at the American Public University system, will become executive vice present and provost at the American College of Financial Services on May 1.

Lisa Perfetti, associate dean for faculty development and professor of French and English at Whitman College, will become provost at the College of Wooster on August 1.

Kelli V. Randall, dean of liberal arts and humanities and accreditation liaison for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges at Livingstone College, has been named vice president for academic affairs in addition to her other roles.

Wendell Seaborne, dean of doctoral studies at Franklin University, has been named senior vice president for academic affairs.

Karen Soul, vice provost at Centenary College of Louisiana, has been named interim provost.

Resignations

Terry Ballman, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Kentucky University, stepped down on April 5. She will serve as assistant to the president for special initiatives until August 30, 2020, after which she will become a professor in the department of modern languages.

Patrick V. Farrell, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Lehigh University, plans to step down on June 30, 2020. He will return to the faculty after a yearlong sabbatical.

Molly Smith, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Superior, stepped down on March 25.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Julie L. Buehler, senior executive consultant at Mitrano and Associates LLC, will become vice president for finance and administration at State University of New York College at Geneseo on July 25.

Renee Kopkowski, president and partner in the New Jersey-based communications consultancy strat-igence Inc., has been named vice president for institute communications at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Claudia Paetsch, human-resources director and business partner at Northwestern Mutual, will become vice president for human resources at Marquette University on April 22.

Lisa Rulney, interim chief financial officer at the University of Arizona since October, has named senior vice president of business affairs and chief financial officer.

Leigh Sata, senior director of capital projects at Santa Rosa Junior College, has been named interim vice chancellor for general services at Peralta Community College District.

Ruth L. Stone, president of CDO Consulting Group, has been named vice chancellor for development at Purdue University at Fort Wayne.

Richard Tankersley, executive director of the Charlotte Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will become vice chancellor for research and economic development on May 1.

Alison Williams, associate provost for diversity and intercultural education at Denison University, will become vice president for equity and inclusion and Title IX officer at Wesleyan University, in Connecticut, on July 22.

Retirements

Carol Mauch Amir, senior vice president for legal affairs and professionalism at the University of Southern California, will retire on June 30.

Michael Quick, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Southern California, will retire and return to the faculty on June 30.

Deans

Appointments

Alexis Abramson, a professor of energy innovation and co-director of the Great Lakes Energy Institute at Case Western Reserve University, will become dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College on June 17.

Elizabeth Agosto, senior associate dean of student affairs at Dartmouth College, will become dean of students at Amherst College on June 17.

Hisham Alnajjar, interim dean of the College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture at University of Hartford, has been named to the post permanently.

Rafael Bahamonde, interim dean of the School of Health and Human Sciences at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis since July 2018, will become permanent dean on July 1.

Seth Beckman, dean of the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University, will become dean of the College of Fine Arts at Ball State University on July 1.

Babak D. Beheshti, interim dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences at the New York Institute of Technology, has been named to the post permanently.

Tamara Brown, interim dean of graduate studies at Prairie View A&M, will become executive dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of North Texas on July 1.

Charles B. Cairns, dean of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University, has been named dean and senior vice president of the College of Medicine at Drexel University.

Yolanda Gallardo Carter, an associate professor of education at Berea College, will become dean of the School of Education at Gonzaga University on July 1.

Thomas A. Chambers, a professor of history, faculty director of strategic enrollment management for graduate studies, and director of the liberal-arts program at Niagara University, will become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Canisius College on June 28.

K.J. Martijn Cremers, interim dean of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, will become permanent dean on July 1.

Carmen Domingo, interim dean of the College of Science and Engineering at San Francisco State University since August 2017, has been named to the post permanently.

Heather Duda, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College, will become the founding dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Mount Union on July 1.

Rosemarie Hunter, an associate professor of social work, special assistant to the president for Campus Community Partnerships, and director of the University Neighborhood Partners program at the University of Utah, will become dean of the School of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga Univeristy on June 17.

Charles Isbell, professor and executive associate dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, will become dean of the college on July 1.

Stephen Joyner, former dean of student services at Miami Dade College, has been named executive dean of the Loxahatchee Groves campus of Palm Beach State College.

Sandra Madar, a professor of biology and biomedical humanities and the director of strategic academic initiatives at Hiram College, will becom the founding dean of the College of Natural and Health Sciences at the University of Mount Union on July 1.

Ken Matsuno, professor of marketing at Babson College, has been named dean of faculty.

LaTanya McNeal, assistant dean of student services at the Belle Glade campus of Palm Beach State College, has been named executive dean of the campus.

Beth McNeil, dean of library services at Iowa State University, will become dean of libraries and the School of Information Studies at Purdue University at West Lafayette on July 1.

Brook Muller, director of the Portland architecture program at the University of Oregon, will become dean of the College of Arts + Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in September.

Sheri Noviello, dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Valdosta State University, will become dean of the College of Health Sciences at Georgia College and State University on July 1.

Stephen C. Payne, an adjunct professor in the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, will become dean of the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America.

Terry Rhodes, senior associate dean for fine arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Mayola Rowser, an associate professor of nursing and director of graduate studies in the College of Nursing and Health Professions at the University of Southern Indiana, has been named dean of the Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College.

Vincent L. Salyers, dean and professor of nursing at MacEwan University, in Alberta, Canada, will become dean of the School of Nursing and Human Physiology at Gonzaga University on July 1.

Robert Sanders, associate dean of graduate studies at Appalachian State University, has been named dean of the Hamilton Holt School at Rollins College.

Rosalie Shemmer, senior director of the career center at Temple University, has been named dean of career and professional experience at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kristine Still, associate dean of student services and external relations in the College of Education and Human Services at Cleveland State University, will become the founding dean of the College of Applied and Social Sciences at the University of Mount Union on July 1.

Amy Sueyoshi, interim dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, has been named to the post permanently.

Oya Tukel, associate dean of undergraduate programs and student services and director of student success and engagement at Cleveland State University, will become dean of the Martin Tuchman School of Management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology on July 1.

Rick Van Kooten, vice provost for research at Indiana University at Bloomington, will become executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences on July 1.

Elizabeth Kronk Warner, associate dean of academic affairs and director of the Tribal Law & Government Center at the University of Kansas School of Law, will become the first female dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah on July 1.

Resignations

Barbara A. Schaal, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences and a professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis, plans to step down as dean by the end of the academic year.

Larry Snyder, dean of Potter College of Arts and Letters at Western Kentucky University, resigned on March 27 and will return to the faculty.

Retirements

Sheryl Feinstein, dean of the College of Education at the University of Nebraska at Kearney since 2015, plans to retire on July 5.

Department chairs

Appointments

Jesse Hostetter, professor and director of comparative pathology service and graduate education in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University, has been named head of the veterinary pathology department in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia.

Walter Smith III, a saxophonist and associate professor of jazz studies in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University at Bloomington, will become chair of the woodwind department at Berklee College of Music on May 1.

Other administrators

Appointments

David A. Baker, director of Virginia government relations at George Washington University, has been named assistant director of government and community affairs at Virginia Tech’s Innovation Campus in Alexandria, Va.

Swarup Bhunia, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Florida, has been named director of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.

Michelle H. Brown-Nevers, former associate vice president for student services at the University of Pennsylvania, is the new executive director of enrollment management at Montgomery County Community College.

Delsa R. Bush, chief of police for the West Palm Beach Police Department, has been named director of security and risk management at Palm Beach State College.

Robert Cofield, high-school partnership manager at Waubonsee Community College, has been named director of school district partnerships.

Alfred Degrafinreid II, former chief administrative officer for the Office of the Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk, in Nashville, has been named associate vice chancellor for community relations in the Division of Government and Community Relations at Vanderbilt University.

Jamilla Deria, program director at the Apollo Theater Foundation, in New York, will become director of the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in June.

Claire Gmachl, a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University, will become head of Whitman College, one of Princeton’s residential colleges, on July 1.

Soo Haylett, program manager for the graduate and executive programs in the School of Business and Economics at Sonoma State University, has been named executive director of the programs.

Billy Lange, assistant coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, has been named head coach of men’s basketball at Saint Joseph’s University, in Pennsylvania.

Mitchell A. Levy, former vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Atlantic Cape Community College, has been named associate vice president in the Division of Academic Affairs at the College of Southern Maryland.

Tonya Matthews, president and chief executive of the Michigan Science Center, has been named associate provost for inclusive workforce development and director of STEM learning innovation at Wayne State University.

Kelly Thormodson, director of library resources for the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of North Dakota, has been named associate dean of library and information services and director of the Harrell Health Sciences Library at Pennsylvania State University-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center College of Medicine.

Resignations

Kevin Nickelberry, head coach of men’s basketball at Howard University, plans to resign.

Faculty

Appointments

Simon James, a violinist and second assistant concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony, will become a faculty member and studio leader at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the fall.

Fellowships

Mellon Fellows

Three new fellows in residence have been named by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Cathy N. Davidson, a professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center

Stephen Pitti, a professor of history and American studies at Yale University

Olga Viso, senior advisor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University

SIAM Fellows

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics selected 28 fellows for 2019 in recognition of their research and service to the community.

Mihai Anitescu, a computational mathematician at the Argonne National Laboratory and a part-time professor of statistics at the University of Chicago, for contributions to the modeling, theory, and practice of optimization.

David A. Bader, a professor and chair of computational science and engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, for contributions in high-performance algorithms and streaming analytics and for leadership in the field of computational science.

Francesco Bullo, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, for contributions to geometric control, distributed control, and network systems with application to robotic coordination, power grids, and social networks.

José Antonio Carrillo de la Plata, a professor of applied and numerical analysis at Imperial College London, in England, for his outstanding contributions to applied mathematics in complex particle dynamics and service to the Applied Mathematics Community of the European Mathematical Society.

Stephen Jonathan Chapman, a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, in England, for his outstanding contributions to physical and biological modeling as well as for his asymptotic methods development in applied mathematics.

Pierre Comon, a researcher with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in France, for pioneering and groundbreaking contributions to signal processing and tensor decompositions, and his instrumental role in creating independent component analysis.

Wolfgang A. Dahmen, a professor of mathematics at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, for contributions to numerical methods for partial differential equations, signal processing, and learning.

Jesus Antonio De Loera, a professor of mathematics at the University of California at Davis, for contributions to discrete geometry and optimization, polynomial algebra, and mathematical software.

Froilán Dopico, a professor of applied mathematics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, for contributions in numerical linear algebra and the solution of polynomial and rational eigenvalue problems via linearizations.

Ernesto Estrada, University of Zaragoza, in Spain, and ARAID Foundation, for outstanding contributions to mathematical chemistry and network science.

Fariba Fahroo, program officer for computational mathematics at the Air Force Research Laboratory, in Ohio, for outstanding scientific leadership while managing AFOSR and DARPA programs in dynamics and control and computational mathematics, and fundamental research accomplishments in computational optimal control.

Andreas Frommer, a professor of applied computer science at Universität Wuppertal, in Germany, for contributions in numerical linear algebra and the solution of problems in quantum chromodynamics.

Roger G. Ghanem, a professor of engineering technology, civil and environmental engineering and aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California, for his seminal contributions to the mathematical foundations of uncertainty quantification methods.

Sigal Gottlieb, a professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, for her contribution to strong-stability-preserving time discretizations and other schemes for hyperbolic equations, and for her professional services including those to SIAM and women in mathematics.

Michael Allen Heroux, senior scientist in the computing research center at the Sandia National Laboratories, for research, leadership, and community building in software and algorithms for scientific and high-performance computing.

Misha Kilmer, a professor and chair of mathematics at Tufts University, for her fundamental contributions to numerical linear algebra and scientific computing, including ill-posed problems, tensor decompositions, and iterative methods.

Ron Kimmel, a professor of computer science at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, for contributions to shape reconstruction, image processing, and geometric analysis.

Gitta Kutyniok, a professor of mathematics at Technische Universitat Berlin, in Germany, for contributions to applied harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, and imaging sciences.

Irena Lasiecka, a professor and chair of math sciences at the University of Memphis, for fundamental contributions to control theory of partial differential equations and their dissemination through numerous invited talks, administrative positions in professional societies, and the mentoring of many Ph.D. students and postdoctoral associates.

Juan C. Meza, a professor of applied mathematics at the University of California at Merced, for contributions to optimization methods and software applied to challenging real-world problems, technical leadership, and service to the SIAM community.

Jill C. Pipher, a professor of mathematics at Brown University, for her profound contributions in analysis and partial differential equations, groundbreaking work in public key cryptography, and outstanding scientific leadership.

Mason A. Porter, a professor of mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles, for contributions to diverse problems and applications in networks, complex systems, and nonlinear systems.

Sebastian Reich, a professor of numerical mathematics at Universität Potsdam, in Germany, for incisive contributions to the field of computational differential equations, and applications in molecular dynamics and data assimilation.

Carla D. Savage, a professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, for outstanding research in algorithms of discrete mathematics and in computer-science applications, alongside exemplary service to mathematics.

Zuowei Shen, a professor of mathematics at National University of Singapore, for contributions to approximation theory, wavelet theory, and image processing.

Joel A. Tropp, a professor of applied and computational mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, for contributions to signal processing, data analysis and randomized linear algebra.

Yin Zhang, a professor of applied and computational mathematics at Rice University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong at Shenzhen, for pioneering and current algorithmic and theoretical contributions in the areas of linear and nonlinear optimization and remote sensing.

Jun Zou, a professor of mathematics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, for contributions to numerical methods and analyses of direct and inverse problems of partial differential equations.

Awards

2019 Luka Prizes

The Columbia University Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University give the Lukas Prizes to works in American nonfiction writing.

Andrew Delbanco, a professor of American studies at Columbia University, received a Mark Lynton History Prize for The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War (Penguin Press, 2018).

Jeffrey C. Stewart, a professor of black studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, received a Mark Lynton History Prize for The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Other awards

R. Scott Appleby, dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, received the 2019 Religion and International Studies Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association.

Banglin Chen, a professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at San Antonio, received the 2019 Humboldt Research Award, given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of a researcher’s entire achievements to date.

Organizations

Appointments

Meredith Hay, a professor of physiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine at Tucson and a faculty member of the university’s Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, has been named president of the American Physiological Society.

Amilcar Shabazz, a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has been named president of the National Council for Black Studies.

Deaths

Lorraine Branham, dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University since 2008, died of cancer on April 2. She was 66. Before joining the university, where she helped create the student-run news site the NewsHouse, Branham was director of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and worked as a journalist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and The Baltimore Sun.

Richard D. Elton, a former vice president at Glendale Community College, died in late March. He was 101.

Richard Janeway, former dean of what is now the Wake Forest School of Medicine at Wake Forest University, died on March 17. He was 86. Janeway was dean of what was then called the Bowman Gray School of Medicine from 1971 to 1994, and oversaw the school’s expansion during that time.

Robert Mitchell Perkins Jr., former chair of the communication-arts department at the Community College of Baltimore County, died on February 28. He was 72.

Stephen Rolfe Powell, acclaimed glass artist and a professor of art at Centre College, died on March 16. He was 67. Powell arrived at the college in 1983, and was named the Kentucky Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in 1999 and 2000. His artwork has been exhibited in many collections around the world, including Venice’s glass exhibition, Venezia Aperto Vetro.

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