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Vice Chancellor for Research Candidates

Candidates for UT Knoxville’s vice chancellor for research position will participate in public forums beginning this week.

Additional information will be added as candidate visits are announced.

David Norton, associate dean for research and graduate programs for the College of Engineering at the University of Florida, will speak to the campus community from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m., Monday, September 19, in the Baker Center Auditorium. Norton has taught in the University of Florida’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering since 2003. Norton held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was later named a senior research staff member in ORNL’s Solid State Division. He holds bachelor and postdoctorate degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Louisiana State University.

Robert Scott, associate vice president for research at the University of Georgia, will speak to the campus community from 10:00 to 11:15 a.m., Thursday, September 22, in the Baker Center Auditorium. Scott is currently serving as the interim director of the University of Georgia’s Bioenergy Systems Research Institute. He previously served as the associate director of the university’s Institute of Bioinformatics. He has held teaching positions at the University of Georgia and the University of Illinois. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois and a Ph. D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology.

Michael Pazzani, vice president for research and graduate professional education at Rutgers University, will speak from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 28, at the Baker Center Toyota Auditorium. Pazzani has taught computer science at Rutgers since 2005. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, he served as the director of the Information and Intelligent Systems Division of Computer and Information Science and Engineering for the National Science Foundation. He taught in the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, for eighteen years and served as chair of the department for six years. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer engineering from the University of Connecticut, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Timothy Killeen, Lyall Research Professor at the University of Colorado and assistant director for geosciences at the National Science Foundation, will speak from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, October 7, in the Shiloh Room of the University Center. Killeen has worked at the University of Colorado since 2010 and at the NSF since 2008. Prior to that, he spent ten years at the National Center for Atmospheric Research as a senior scientist and director. From 1979 to 2000, he held various positions at the University of Michigan, including associate vice president for research. He also spent time as a visiting senior scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and was an affiliate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He has a bachelor’s degree in physics, a doctorate in atomic and molecular physics and a Doctor of Science (DSC), all from University College London.

H. Edward Seidel, physics and astronomy and computer science professor at Louisiana State University, and assistant director for mathematical and physical sciences at the National Science Foundation, will speak from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, October 19, in the Toyota Auditorium in the Baker Center. Seidel has worked at LSU since 2003 and the NSF since 2008. From 2003 to 2008, Seidel was the founding director of the LSU Center for Computation and Technology, a university-wide interdisciplinary academic and research unit. He also served as the first chief scientist for the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, a fiber optics network which connects the state's six research universities and two medical centers. From 1995 to 1996, Seidel served as the professor and head of numerical relativity and eScience research groups at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany. Seidel has a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from the College of William and Mary, a master's degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a doctorate in relativistic astrophysics from Yale University.

 

Posted September 16, 2011, updated September 23, September 30, October 17