Mary Boyce is so important she gets a Columbia email address that's not her UNI.
The School of Engineering and Applied Science's new dean sent out her first email to the SEAS community from boyce@columbia.edu shortly before 7 p.m. The chair of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's mechanical engineering department and SEAS' first female dean, Boyce beat out three other candidates—including SEAS Interim Dean Donald Goldfarb—for the job, University President Lee Bollinger announced yesterday.
Here's the email. Click through to the jump for more.
Dear Members of the SEAS community,
I am excited to join the School of Engineering and Applied Science as its 150th anniversary approaches and we embark on an expanding future. Columbia’s convergence of talented individuals from diverse disciplines, across many Schools, positions us to be a focal point for the future of innovation. Engineering and applied science are instrumental in building that future. We are in a time when society has become more inspired by, and more demanding of, the role of engineering in shaping our world and bringing solutions to some of the most pressing global challenges. SEAS has a remarkable history of fundamental and technological breakthroughs – enabled by a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary environment that permeates the Columbia culture. The coming years offer unique opportunities for SEAS and for its many intersections with sister Schools. I am honored to be a part of this future.
