Charlottesville, VA - After a national search, the University of Virginia has named Paul Cherukuri its first chief innovation officer and the Donna and Richard Tadler University Professor of Entrepreneurship, pending approval by the Board of Visitors. He will begin on October 1. He will also hold faculty appointments in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the McIntire School of Commerce.
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Leo Lo, who currently serves as dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico, has been appointed the University of Virginia’s next University librarian and dean of libraries.
Following a national search, University of Virginia leaders have named Nicole R. Hall as the University’s new senior associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students. She will replace Cedric Bernard Rucker, who was named to the role on an interim basis in 2023.
The University of Virginia has assembled a 14-member group to conduct a nationwide search for UVA’s next provost.
The search committee, representing nearly all facets of the University, will seek a replacement for Provost Ian Baucom, who is leaving to become the next president of Middlebury College in Vermont. Baucom will step down as provost in March.
An artist, educator and writer specializing in Australian indigenous art will be the next director of the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection.
The University of Virginia announced today that Lori L. McMahon has been selected to serve as its next vice president for research following a national search. Her appointment, pending approval by the Board of Visitors, is slated to begin June 15.
The University of Virginia announced Monday that Leslie Kendrick has been selected to serve as the 13th dean of the School of Law. Her term begins July 1.
Kendrick, a 2006 graduate of the School of Law who joined the faculty in 2008, will succeed Risa Goluboff, the first woman to serve as dean. Goluboff, the Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law and a professor of history at UVA, plans to return to the faculty, which she first joined in 2002, at the conclusion of her eight-year term.
The University of Virginia announced Monday that Kenyon Bonner, vice provost for student affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, has been appointed as vice president and chief student affairs officer.
The University of Virginia announced on Wednesday the appointment of Kelly P. Doney to serve as its next vice president and chief information officer.
Christa Davis Acampora joined the University of Virginia on Sept. 1 as the new dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
Acampora, a Virginia native, comes to UVA from Emory University in Atlanta, where she served as deputy provost and professor of philosophy. Prior to Emory, she was a full professor at Hunter College and the City University of New York’s Graduate Center and served as Hunter’s associate provost for faculty affairs and research.
Marianne Baernholdt returned to the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing to take the dean’s reins on Aug. 1, but has been a leader from her earliest nursing days.
Like many children growing up in the 1960s, Richard Chylla was fascinated by the United States space program and dreamed of becoming an astronaut.
Chylla never did, but his love for everything that landing on the moon signified – science, exploration, pushing boundaries – stayed with him throughout high school and college, and even into his professional career.
Protecting basic research and the federal policies that enable it to flourish at universities like UVA is a driving force for Julia Smith.
Richard Chylla, Ph.D., Executive Director of Michigan State University Technologies, has been named Executive Director of the University of Virginia Licensing & Ventures Group (UVA LVG) effective January 24, 2022.