Search update: Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
UC President Neville G. Pinto announced the search committee for the university's new provost.
The following members of the UC community will serve as members of the search committee, in accordance with University Rule 3361:10-6-02. I am grateful to each for agreeing to serve and dedicating their time to this critically important search:
- Kristi Nelson, Interim Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost (chair)
- Kevin Burke, Professor, College-Conservatory of Music and Head of Media Production
- Dan Carl, Professor and Director of Health Sciences, College of Allied Health
- Neelakshi Chatterjee, President, Graduate Student Government
- Brandi Elliott, Chair, Staff Senate and Executive Director, Student Affairs Identity and Inclusion
- John (Marty) Emmert, Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science, and Director of the NSF Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust
- Haider Ala Hamoudi, Dean and Nippert Professor of Law, College of Law
- Ryan Hays, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer
- Susan Longfield Karr, Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences
- Tamika Odum, Chair, University Faculty and Faculty Senate and Associate Professor, UC Blue Ash
- Greg Postel, Senior Vice President of Health Affairs and Dean of the UC College of Medicine
- Madison Wesley, Student Body President, Undergraduate Student Government
In terms of a timeline, we expect to conduct multiple rounds of interviews beginning early in 2025. The university community will have an opportunity to meet finalists when those have been identified later in Spring semester. Our goal is to have our next academic leader in place by June 1.
Warm regards,
Neville G. Pinto
President
Latest UC News
- Wrongful conviction: ‘I lost my mother and father while in prison’Robert McClendon, an Ohio Innocence Project exoneree, speaks with WYSO about wrongful conviction.
- New effort aims to keep unsold clothing donations out of the landfillWVXU hosts leadership from Ohio Valley Goodwill Industries and UC fashion design student Wesley Beisel to speak to how donated items contribute to sustainable living. Beisel is the student lead of the Sustainable Fashion Initiative (SSI) which originated at UC.
- Hamilton County Job & Family Services grows toy drive for kids in foster careHamilton County’s goal to give all kids in foster care at least two gifts this year is drawing unprecedented support from high-profile community organizations, including Hoxworth Blood Center and the Bengals. Donate a toy at any of the seven Hoxworth neighborhood donor centers from November 17-23, 2024.
- The long and complicated — and expensive — effort to replace lead lines in the U.S.Cincinnati's public water utility is on a years-long effort to replace its lead service lines, guided by a model designed by Christopher Auffrey, a professor of planning at DAAP. The EPA has just ramped up the deadline for replacements across the U.S. and professor and city officials discussed the undertaking on NPR's "All Things Considered."
- Could body roundness index replace BMI?For decades, body mass index, or BMI, has been a widely used medical screening tool. But experts from the American Medical Association have pointed out some of the metric’s shortcomings. Now a recent paper published in JAMA Network Open reported that the body roundness index, or BRI, shows promise as a better predictor of mortality in adults.
- Exploring the current use and future of alternatives to traditional informed consent in acute stroke trialsMSN highlighted an editorial written by the University of Cincinnati’s Yasmin Aziz, MD, and Joseph Broderick, MD, published in the journal Neurology analyzing the current use and potential future of alternatives to traditional informed consent in acute stroke trials.
