Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost
Provost’s Advisory Committee for the Institute for the Advancement of Science and Engineering
To Read the Recommendations (June 21, 2007):
Keeping Ahead of the Future: A Blueprint of the Institute for the Advancement of Science and Engineering (download PDF)
Executive Summary (download PDF)
This new Provost’s Advisory Committee was appointed on October 9, 2006. The idea for the new Institute stems from a strategic positioning recommendation made by the Science and Engineering Task Force. The Committee concluded its work in June 2007, with the issuing of its blueprint.
Committee Members
Professor Claudia Neuhauser, Chair
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and Head
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
College of Biological Sciences
Professor Judith Berman
Department of Genetics and Cell Biology
Medical School and College of Biological Sciences
Professor E. Daniel Dahlberg
School of Physics and Astronomy
Institute of Technology
Professor Timothy Ebner
Head and Former Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Neuroscience
Medical School
Associate Professor Stephen Ekker
Director of Beckman Center for Transposon Research and Associate Head
Department of Cell Biology
Medical School and College of Biological Sciences
Professor John Goodge
Department of Geological Sciences
College of Science and Engineering
Duluth
Professor Megan Gunnar
Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Institute of Child Development
College of Education and Human Development
Professor Vipin Kumar
William Norris Professor and Head
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Institute of Technology
Professor Ellen Longmire
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Institute of Technology
Professor Susan Mantell
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Institute of Technology
Professor Matthew McGue
Regents Professor
Department of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts
Professor Mark Paller
Assistant Vice President for Research
Department of Medicine
Medical School
Professor Ronald Phillips
Regents Professor and
McKnight Presidential Chair in Genomics
Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences
Professor Ronald Siegel
Head
Department of Pharmaceutics
College of Pharmacy
Professor Fotis Sotiropoulos
Department of Civil Engineering
Institute of Technology
Professor Nevin Young
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Departments of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology
College of Biological Sciences and
College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences
Staffed by: Katherine Himes