April 29, 2021
Pratt School Professor Stefan Zauscher will chair a 15-person committee that will conduct a search for the new Vinik Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, President Vincent E. Price and Provost Sally Kornbluth have announced.
The new dean will succeed Ravi Bellamkonda, who was named provost at Emory University earlier this year. Jeffrey Glass, professor of electrical and computer engineering and Pratt’s senior associate dean for education and learning innovation, will serve as interim dean beginning July 1.
The president and provost charged the committee to conduct an international search looking both internally and externally to identify a diverse pool of candidates.
In addition to Zauscher, the other search committee members are:
Matthew Becker, Hugo L. Blomquist Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Mark Borsuk, Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Kenneth Brown, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
August Burns, Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics
Suzanne Gregory, Chair, Pratt School Board of Visitors
Heileen Hsu-Kim, Sternberg Family Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Samirah Musah, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Michael Reiter, Professor of Computer Science
Michael Rhodes, Member, Pratt School Board of Visitors
Ann Saterbak, Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering
Christoph Schmidt, Hertha Sponer Distinguished Professor of Physics
Tatiana Segura, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Lingchong You, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
The committee is staffed by Karen Kennea, Executive Assistant in the Office of Duke Kunshan University Relations, and will be assisted by Spencer Stuart, a national executive search firm.
The full position profile is available at https://provost.duke.edu/about/executive-searches. Members of the Duke community can submit nominations for and comments about the position via the search e-mail address: PrattDean@SpencerStuart.com. All submitted information will be confidential.
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