New Pratt Dean announced

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<p>Just received this e-mail from Peter Lange and I thought it would interest at least a couple people. Going to be hard to follow Dean Johnson…</p>

<p>"Dear Colleagues,</p>

<p>I am pleased to inform you that Tom Katsouleas, vice provost for information services and professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering – Electrophysics at the University of Southern California, has accepted President Brodhead’s and my offer to become dean of the Pratt School of Engineering. Tom will assume his post on July 1, 2008.</p>

<p>Tom Katsouleas brings extensive experience to the Pratt School deanship, having served in a number of leadership positions at USC. He is a former president of the USC Academic Senate and was the founding chair of USC’s High Performance Computing and Communications Center. He has also served as associate dean for research and associate dean for student affairs, respectively, in USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering. Prior to joining USC in 1991, Tom served on the faculty at UCLA from where he received both his Ph.D. and undergraduate degrees.</p>

<p>Tom’s vision for Pratt is ambitious and far-reaching, including a strong interest in establishing collaborations with external partners and in the potential for interdisciplinary collaborations across schools at Duke, as well as international initiatives that can strengthen Pratt’s undergraduate and graduate teaching and research missions. He also brings a deep commitment to expanding the diversity and inclusiveness of the Pratt community.</p>

<p>President Brodhead and I are confident that Tom Katsouleas’ considerable leadership experience at an engineering school that has risen into the top ten in rankings in recent years and his vision for Pratt will serve him and the School well as Pratt continues its momentum and trajectory of excellence.</p>

<p>We are grateful to the search committee chaired by April Brown, senior associate dean for research and professor of electrical and computer engineering, for conducting an extremely thorough international search for our new dean.</p>

<p>President Brodhead and I also are grateful to Professor Rob Clark for his leadership of the school this year.</p>

<p>The news release announcing Tom Katsouleas’ appointment is attached.</p>

<pre><code> Sincerely,

                                Peter Lange
                                Provost "

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<p>actually - it’ll currently be hard to follow Dean Clark :wink: The Chronicle notwithstanding, he was given a regular appointment as Dean for one year - not interim - and the importance of his work for this year, for the semester Dean Johnson was on sabbatical, and during his time as Senior Associate Dean has yet to be fully appreciated.</p>