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SGCE Leadership and Organization
Operating Commitee
Mark Mason
Director, School of Green Chemistry and Engineering
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Glenn Lipscomb
Associate Director, School of Green Chemistry and Engineering
Chair, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Karen Bjorkman
Dean, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Tom Gutteridge
Dean, College of Business and Innovation
Nagi Naganathan
Dean, College of Engineering
Anand Kunnathur
Associate Dean of Business and Innovation
Program Manager
To be announced in 2013 pending budgetary approval.
External Advisory Board
To be announced in fall of 2012.
Organization
The School of Green Chemistry and Engineering is led by an operating committee consisting of the Director, Associate Director, Dean of the College of Business and Innovation, Dean of the College of Engineering, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Associate Dean of the College of Business and Innovation. An External Advisory Board of academic, industry, government, and community leaders will help provide oversight and direction for the new School. In addition, a Program Manager will assist with student recruitment, marketing and advertising, accounting, grant proposal submissions, outreach activities, and day to day operation of the SGCE.
The organizational structure is illustrated in the figure below. The SGCE is organized to avoid competion with existing departmental and college structure for resources. To maintain a good working relationship, to garner internal support, and to avoid conflict and duplication of effort, the SGCE is organized to add to and strengthen the existing structure, promoting and facilitating mutually beneficial academic programs, interdisciplinary projects, and research in areas of green chemistry and green engineering.
The director reports directly to the Dean of the College in which the director holds a tenured faculty appointment. Currently, that is the Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. The director also reports indirectly and works closely with the Dean of the College of Engineering and the Dean of the College of Business and Innovation. The director also works with department chairs regarding pertinent teaching and service assignments of relevance to the SGCE. Associated faculty and staff and their budget lines remain with individual departments, not the SGCE. The budget request for FY13 was developed by the operating committee and submitted to the administration through D’Naie Jacobs, Director of Strategic Initiatives.
Dr. Mark Mason was appointed Founding Director of the SGCE in March of 2012 with an initial appointment extending to August 14, 2013. Dr. Glenn Lipscomb was appointed Founding Associate Director in May of 2012 with an appointment extending to June 30, 2013.
