We got word a few minutes ago that Provost John Coatsworth emailed SEAS alumni a list of four finalist candidates for the school's top job. The next dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science will be one of the following people:
- Mary Cunningham Boyce (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Andrew Gellman (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Donald Goldfarb (Columbia)
- Paul Weiss (University of California, Los Angeles)
Boyce is the head of MIT's mechanical engineering department; Gellman is the head of CMU's chemical engineering department; Weiss is the director of UCLA's NanoSystems Institute. Goldfarb, of course, is the current interim dean of SEAS.
SEAS has been without a permanent dean since Feniosky Peña-Mora resigned last July following a faculty revolt. Coatsworth said in his email that the search committee hopes to choose a permanent dean by the middle of this semester.
Check back later for a full story from the News Desk, and see after the jump for Coatsworth's full email.
