{"id":20762,"date":"2019-06-12T14:17:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T18:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=20762"},"modified":"2021-11-10T14:06:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T19:06:46","slug":"mariette-dichristina-86-named-new-com-dean","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/mariette-dichristina-86-named-new-com-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariette DiChristina (&#8217;86) named new COM dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning August 15, Mariette DiChristina (&#8217;86) will oversee 83 full-time and 107 part-time faculty, 45 staffers, and more than 2,600 undergraduate and graduate students at the College of Communication. She comes to COM from <cite>Scientific American<\/cite> where she serves as editor-in-chief. DiChristina is also the executive vice president of the magazine&#8217;s parent company, Springer Nature, overseeing the journal <cite>Nature<\/cite> and related titles.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2019\/new-com-dean-mariette-dichristina\/\">BU Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DiChristina spoke about her career and BU experience when she returned to campus in 2016 to receive a Distinguished Alumni Award.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoWrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K8tuCGKuLIU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning August 15, Mariette DiChristina (&#8217;86) will oversee 83 full-time and 107 part-time faculty, 45 staffers, and more than 2,600&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1654,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/20762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/20762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31829,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/20762\/revisions\/31829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20762"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=20762"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=20762"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=20762"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=20762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}