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Faculty
The profile of new faculty recruitments is another indicator of how we are doing. We recruited 99 faculty last year. About half classify their race as something other than White. And more than a third are females.
The English department recruited William Henry
Lewis who is noted for his teaching of creative writing. Mathematics recruited Vadim
Kaloshin from Caltech. He now holds our Michael Brin Chair in Mathematics. This past summer Christopher
Monroe's web site at Michigan proclaimed "soon to be at the University of Maryland and JQI." The Joint Quantum Institute is already an acronym. He manipulates atoms and photons to investigate quantum information.
Ross Salawitch was appointed by Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center. Ross explores radiative properties of the atmosphere. Geology has recruited a husband and wife team Laurent
G.J. Montési and Wen-lu Zhu. This makes two spousal pairs plus two half spousal pairs that Geology has recruited. At an American Academy of Arts and Sciences meeting this past summer, the department was singled out for its cleverness in recognizing that spousal recruitment can move a department "up to the top." Our new School of Public Health used recruitments to take us in new directions like maternal and child health in low income families with Edmond
Shenassa, health initiatives for underserved populations with Olivia
Carter-Pokras and dental health with Dushanka
Kleinman.
And John Mather won the Nobel Prize in Physics, and Rita
Colwell was awarded the National Medal of Science.
There are too many faculty stories to tell.
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