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04-27-2009, 05:10 PM
Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger has announced the appointment of Feniosky Pena-Mora as the next dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), effective July 15. Pena-Mora is a graduate of Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena in Santo Domingo. He earned his masters and doctorate in civil engineering from MIT.
Pena-Mora earned an international reputation for his scholarship, teaching, research and engineering innovations, as well as hands-on leadership in managing major university engineering programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Illinois, where he has served as where he served as the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the civil and environmental engineering department, a center affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and a faculty affiliate at the Beckman Institute for six years. "Columbia is fortunate to welcome such a remarkable new engineering dean at a time when the school is becoming ever more central to the university's mission-from its interdisciplinary work with our medical center in the life sciences and our Earth Institute in climate science to its pioneering service-learning curriculum that is a national model for civic engagement between university and community," said Bollinger. "He will be an outstanding leader for our School of Engineering and Applied Science."
See: http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/1513
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Pena-Mora earned an international reputation for his scholarship, teaching, research and engineering innovations, as well as hands-on leadership in managing major university engineering programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Illinois, where he has served as where he served as the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the civil and environmental engineering department, a center affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and a faculty affiliate at the Beckman Institute for six years. "Columbia is fortunate to welcome such a remarkable new engineering dean at a time when the school is becoming ever more central to the university's mission-from its interdisciplinary work with our medical center in the life sciences and our Earth Institute in climate science to its pioneering service-learning curriculum that is a national model for civic engagement between university and community," said Bollinger. "He will be an outstanding leader for our School of Engineering and Applied Science."
See: http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/1513
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)