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Northwestern University today, November 15, announced the formation of a search committee to identify the next dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.
The person selected will succeed Julio Otieno, who will step down as dean at the end of the 2022-23 academic year. Otieno will complete his term as Dean on August 31, 2023, and Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and will continue to serve as the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
Provost Kathleen Hegerty has charged the search committee, which includes faculty, students, staff and McCormick alumni, with conducting a search to identify a slate of candidates. Mark C. Harsam, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and director of the Materials Research Center, will chair the discovery. Isaacson, Miller have been placed to assist the committee.
Committee members
- Guillermo A. Rich, Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science; Professor of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine; Director, Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering
- Wei Chen, Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design and Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Francesca Cornelli, Dean, Kellogg School of Management, Donald P. Jacobs Chair in Finance and Professor of Finance
- Carolyn Duran, Vice President and Engineering Manager, Components Research for Intel Corporation; Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science; Member of the Materials Science and Engineering Advisory Board; McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Alumna
- Kimberly A. Gray, Roxlyn and Richard Pepper Family Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science; Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Alumna
- Chayse Lavallais, third year Ph.D. Student, Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
- David L. Nichols, Principal, Ernst & Young; McCormick Advisory Council Member; McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science alumnus and Kellogg School of Management alumnus
- Luke Prairie, Undergraduate Student, Class of 2024, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
- John A. Rogers, Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science; Professor of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine; Director of the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics
- Karen Smilowitz, James N. and Margie M. Krebs Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science; Professor of Operations, Kellogg School of Management
- Sara Owsley Sood, Professor of Instruction for Computer Science, Chookaszian Family Teaching Professor, and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science; McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Alumna
- Julie White, Associate Dean, Administration, Finance, Facilities and Planning, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
The committee will begin its work immediately and will engage the McCormick community to gain input on the desired characteristics and experience of the Dean, understand the needs of the community, and collect nominations of potential candidates for the role.
Members of the university community are invited to share feedback, submit questions and recommend candidates by contacting the search committee at [email protected].
The Committee includes the Office of the Provost Staff Lorraine Cassis, Executive Assistant; Roma Khanna, associate provost for strategy and policy; Andriyana Kurzenberger, Senior Program Administrator; and Mirah Quinn-Browner, senior director of strategy and policy.
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