JANUARY 11, 2005 -- Martyn R. Smith has been named Dean of Michigan Tech's Graduate School, according to Provost David Reed. Smith will serve approximately nine months beginning January 16.
During the next nine months, the university will conduct an internal search for a graduate school dean.
Smith, whose appointment is half-time, was a member of the Michigan Tech faculty for 12 years, including a year as head of the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences. After that department was split, he continued to serve three years as head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences. He moved to Winona State University in Minnesota in 1989, where he has been a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
He was also a member of the faculty of the Mayo School of Health Related Sciences in Rochester, Minnesota, for six years. He holds a bachelor's degree from Montclair State in New Jersey, and master's and PhD degrees from Yale.
"Michigan Tech is very fortunate to have someone with Marty's skills and experience available and willing to step in," Reed said. "He is familiar with us, but at the same time will be able to bring an external perspective to this important position."
Reed said that he will form a search committee, in accordance with University Senate proposal 12-01, "Search Procedures for Dean of the Graduate School."
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