After seven years as associate dean for the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Jeffrey Hughes will complete his service on June 30, 2017. He will return to his full-time position in the Department of Astronomy.
In an email to the faculty, Dean Cudd wrote the following:
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to share the news that Professor W. Jeffrey Hughes will complete his service as Associate Dean of the Graduate School on June 30, 2017.
I am extremely grateful to Jeffrey for his leadership in GRS and for his many contributions since his appointment in 2010. Most notably, Jeffrey successfully managed our transition to a five-year funding model for Ph.D. students, a critically important task that required care and planning in order to achieve a firm financial foundation, and that has transformed doctoral education in many fields in CAS. He has also helped us to develop new professionally oriented Masters degrees, including the pioneering Master of Science in Statistical Practice and the Master of Science in Computer Science. Finally, Jeffrey has reorganized and modernized the office and graduate admissions processes; we now have 28 fewer filing cabinets in the GRS office suite!
Jeffrey will be returning full-time to the Department of Astronomy, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1978. Among his other contributions, Jeffrey has served as chair of the Department of Astronomy, as the founding director of the Center for Space Physics, and as director of the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (an NSF Science and Technology Center). His research focuses on the dynamics of the Earth¹s magnetosphere and its interactions with the solar wind and the ionosphere.
Please join me in thanking Jeffrey for his extraordinary dedication and service to the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
I hope to appoint a new associate dean during spring semester, to begin on July 1, 2017, and will be sending out a position description and call for applications early next week.
Sincerely,
Ann