Appointments

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December 22, 2021
ϳԹ researcher Zheng-Rong Lu has been elected as a fellow of The National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The honor highlights the overall career and impact an inventor has had in their field and society as a whole.
Lu is the M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor...

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December 14, 2021
ϳԹ today announced that veteran athletics administrator TJ Shelton will become the university’s next James C. Wyant Director of Athletics, effective Jan. 1.
Shelton, currently a senior associate athletic director at Ohio State University, previously spent 15 years in the athletics...

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December 10, 2021
“When you see a possible opportunity show up, take it. You never know what might happen,” said Deborah Lindell (NUR ’03), the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Professor at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and a new Fulbright Scholar who departed in September for an eight-month sojourn to Northw...

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November 19, 2021
The 2021 Staff Advisory Council (SAC) general election has been completed. Following are the newly elected and re-elected SAC members for the 2021–23 term:
Academic Administration
Angela Clark-Taylor Janee Kelly Ray Krajci Ricky Marcus Elizabeth Miller Carlier Myers
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mand...

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November 19, 2021
The Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship has announced the selection of the 2021-22 Veale Entrepreneurship Fellows. This program supports faculty, staff or teams to create new initiatives, including specific types of engagement efforts, research proposals and formal or informal educational activitie...

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November 19, 2021
Ayesha Bell Hardaway, associate professor of law, co-director of the Social Justice Institute, and director of the Social Justice Law Center, was honored recently with the induction into two prestigious societies.
Earlier this November, Bell Hardaway and 10 other honorees were inducted into the So...

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November 04, 2021
Rachel Lutner
Since joining ϳԹ in June 2021, Rachel Lutner has made it her mission to help students get to know the Office of Equity.
Lutner says what she enjoys most about being part of ϳԹ is working with students on the different causes and initiati...

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November 03, 2021
Faculty director of think[box] starts this week as interim VP for research and technology management
Provost Ben Vinson III announced today that James McGuffin-Cawley, faculty director for the Larry Sears and Sally Zlonick Sears think[box], took on a second campus leadership role this week: interim...

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October 26, 2021
ϳԹ engineer and researcher Umut Gurkan, known for groundbreaking research that has revolutionized lab-on-a-chip and point-of-care medical diagnostic technologies for underserved populations, has been selected as a member of the 2021-23 National Academies of Sciences, Eng...

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October 12, 2021
Provost Ben Vinson III today announced the appointment of Emory University’s dean and librarian Yolanda Cooper as ϳԹ’s vice provost and Lindseth Family University Librarian. She will begin her new role Jan. 1.
“I am incredibly pleased to welcome Yolanda as the newest member of our...