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College of Graduate Studies dean to leave UT |
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Jason Mack |
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Jun 4, 2007 |
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Dr. Martin Abraham will leave The University of Toledo to become the founding dean of Youngstown State University's new College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). He will start the new job July 1.
Abraham is currently the dean of the UT College of Graduate Studies and a professor of chemical and environmental engineering.
YSU received applications from 55 candidates nationwide, and a 13-member search committee eventually narrowed it down to five candidates.
“It was an honor to be chosen,” Abraham said. “I’m looking forward to the opportunity and I’m excited about the possibilities.”
The College of STEM will consist of 10 academic departments: Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Civil/Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Technology, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Industrial and Systems Engineering with Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics and Statistics, Physics and Astronomy.
“This particular position is an exciting position in that it brings together the science and engineering disciplines into a single college, so it creates a unique opportunity where we’re at the beginning development of a new college with new opportunities and new room for growth,” Abraham said. “I’m excited about the opportunity to help develop a new college and grow an interdisciplinary college.”
YSU also is combining the other departments to form the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
“I think it’s a good idea,” Abraham said. “The synergies that it creates really will provide opportunities that you’re just not going to have in a typical or traditional engineering college.”
According to Dr. Robert Sheehan, interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, The University of Toledo is waiting to appoint an interim dean until after a formal letter of resignation is received.
Abraham received the 2006 Sigma Xi/Dion D. Raftopoulos Award for Outstanding Research and UT’s Outstanding Faculty Research Award in 1999 for his work on minimizing the effects of chemical processes on the environment and the production of hydrogen for use with fuel cells. He has been at UT since 1996.
He is a member of the Environmental Protection Agency Board of Scientific Counselors Technology for Sustainability Subcommittee, editor of Environmental Progress, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Edison Materials Technology Center and the Board of Directors of the Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition.
Abraham will not be permitted to teach at YSU, but that is not what he will miss the most.
“There’s a very good group of faculty and students that I will leave behind,” Abraham said. “It’s always difficult to leave behind people.”
The feelings are mutual.
“Dr. Abraham will be greatly missed by The University of Toledo,” Sheehan said. “He brought to his position an exceptional set of strengths.”
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