Sukhatme to head
Arts and Sciences
By SUE
WUETCHER
Reporter Editor
Uday
P. Sukhatme, interim vice provost for academic programs at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, has been named dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences at the University at Buffalo, effective Aug. 1.
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Sukhatme
will succeed Interim Dean Charles L. Stinger, who will return to his post
as senior associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences.
"Uday
Sukhatme has a superb record of building excellence, and a demonstrated
ability to understand and facilitate a broad range of academic programs,"
Provost Elizabeth D. Capaldi said in announcing Sukhatme's appointment.
"He is ideally suited to lead the College of Arts and Sciences during
the next critical period of its development."
As
dean of Arts and Sciences, Sukhatme will oversee 31 departments and a
variety of interdisciplinary centers and research institutes, as well
as the academic careers of 11,000 undergraduates and 1,700 graduate students.
Faculty affiliated with the college provide 83 percent of all the instruction
at the university in the freshman and sophomore years, to both arts and
sciences students and to students in all fields taking such general-education
courses as mathematics and English.
Sukhatme
comes to UB after spending more than 20 years at the University of Illinois
at Chicago. A professor of physics at the university, he served as chair
of the Department of Physics from 1991-98, associate vice chancellor for
academic affairs from 1998-2000 and interim vice provost for academic
affairs from 2000 to the present.
In
his current position, he is responsible for all undergraduate academic
programs, as well as supervising the campus promotion-and-tenure process.
He initiated the popular "Cutting Edge" lecture series that has brought
hundreds of top high school students and their parents to the UIC campus
to hear Saturday-morning lectures given by leading professors about their
disciplinary research.
His
own research in theoretical high-energy physics and quantum mechanics
has been funded continuously by grants from the U.S. Department of Energy
for the past 21 years. Among his 164 publications are 13 that have been
included in the top-cited category in citation databases, an indication
of their impact in the discipline of physics.
Sukhatme
has taught at both the graduate and undergraduate level, and received
the UIC Excellence in Teaching Award in 1996.
He
is the principal investigator on a five year, $2.5 million project funded
by the National Science Foundation that is aimed at improving minority
enrollment in science, mathematics, engineering and technology disciplines.
The Alliance for Minority Participation project involves an alliance of
eight Illinois universities.
Sukhatme
received a bachelor's degree in mathematics, with honors, from the University
of Delhi, India, and bachelor's and doctoral degrees in physics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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