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New Dean Named at Emory College
April 26, 2010
Source: Community Partnership Update/May 2010
 Robin Forman, a mathematics scholar who has worked steadily to enhance the student experience both inside and outside the classroom as dean of undergraduates at Rice University, has been selected to serve as the next dean of the Emory College of Arts and Sciences at Emory. He will start July 1.
Forman has been a member of the Rice faculty since 1987. He was named full professor of mathematics in 1999 and served as chair of the Department of Mathematics from 2001 to 2005. He is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University. He served two years as an instructor at MIT before going to Rice.
As Rice's first dean of undergraduates, Forman helped create a shared vision for an intellectually, culturally and socially vibrant student experience. He led the creation of Rice's Center for Civic Engagement to enhance student involvement in volunteer, internship and research roles with the greater Houston community. He championed the recognition of interdisciplinary minors, which now include computational finance, global health technologies, Jewish studies, energy and water sustainability, and poverty, justice and human capabilities.
Forman will also hold the title of Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics designate. His research, which has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Security Agency and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), focuses on combinatorial methods in topology and geometry.
Forman succeeds Robert A. Paul, a cultural anthropologist and psychoanalyst who served as interim dean and then dean since 2001, leading Emory College in the substantial development of its academic programs and reputation over the past decade.
Emory College of Arts and Sciences is the four-year, undergraduate division of Emory University.
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