Vol. 38, No. 18

3-17-2004
By: onCampus staff

News Briefs

Royster named to top Arts and Sciences post
Barbara Snyder, interim executive vice president and provost, has asked President Karen Holbrook to recommend to the Board of Trustees the appointment of Jackie Jones Royster named to top Arts and Sciences post

Barbara Snyder, interim executive vice president and provost, has asked President Karen Holbrook to recommend to the Board of Trustees the appointment of Jackie Jones Royster, currently the interim dean of the College of Humanities and professor of English, as the interim executive dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences. Subject to approval by the trustees, her appointment will be effective June 1. “Professor Royster has done a superb job in her capacity as interim dean during the past year, and I am deeply appreciative of her willingness to assume this new position while we conduct a search for a permanent executive dean,” Snyder said.

Holbrook named to NASULGC board of directors

President Holbrook has been named to the board of directors of the National Associations of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) for a term ending in 2006. Founded in 1887, NASULGC is the nation’s oldest higher education association. A voluntary association of public universities, land-grant institutions and many of the nation’s public university systems, NASULGC has been in the forefront of educational leadership nationally for more than a century. Former Ohio State President Brit Kirwan is the new NASULGC board chair for 2004.

Rovin named director of nephrology

Brad Rovin has been named director of Ohio State’s Division of Nephrology. The nephrology division at the Medical Center conducts one of the largest clinical programs nationally and is recognized for its research at both the basic science and clinical levels.

Rovin is a widely respected authority on the treatment of lupus and is project director of a federally funded lupus research study. He joined Ohio State’s internal medicine faculty in 1990 after completing specialty training in nephrology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He has received numerous awards, including the National Kidney Foundation Clinical Scientist award in 1995. Rovin has served as president of the medical advisory board for the National Kidney Foundation in Ohio and on the editorial boards of many prestigious journals. The division of nephrology has one of the most comprehensive National Institutes of Health-funded programs in the country to study kidney disease associated with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Chlamtac joins OSU as Ohio Eminent Scholar

The departments of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) have announced the hiring of Imrich Chlamtac as the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Computer Networking and Communications. This position, a joint appointment in CSE and ECE, is an endowed chair funded in part by the Ohio Board of Regents. Chlamtac will arrive on campus in September. Since 1997, Chlamtac has been the Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications and professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Texas at Dallas. While there, he founded and was director of the Center for Advanced Telecommunication Systems and Services, which dealt with research and applications in areas such as Next Generation Internet, Mobile IP, Bluetooth, DWDM network management and network design and management.

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