{"id":10015,"date":"2012-01-17T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=10015"},"modified":"2025-01-30T23:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T04:58:31","slug":"new-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/01\/new-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"New Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/develop2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10082 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"develop2\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/develop2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"219\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 245px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 245\/219;\" \/><\/a>There are new developments at the University of Connecticut and the School of Engineering.\u00a0 Dr. Peter J. Nicholls, who has served as Provost and Executive Vice President at UConn with great distinction for the last six years, will be stepping down from that position on May 31, 2012.\u00a0 Provost Nicholls has played a significant and central role in UConn\u2019s growth in academics, research and reputation.\u00a0 He will remain at UConn as a key member of the faculty, returning to his research and teaching in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>The news was shared by University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst in a January 9 e-mail to the UConn community.\u00a0 The university will launch a national search for his replacement in the fall of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Herbst has appointed the School of Engineering\u2019s Dean, Mun Y. Choi, to serve as interim Provost.\u00a0 In announcing the news, Dr. Herbst remarked, \u201cMun has excelled as our engineering dean and I know that he will help ensure a smooth transition.\u201d Dean Choi will assume the interim Provost position officially on June 1.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for his upcoming role as interim Provost, Dean Choi has appointed Associate Dean for Research &amp; Strategic Initiatives, Kazem Kazerounian, to serve as interim Dean of the School of Engineering effective June 1 as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working closely with President Herbst and the entire UConn community during the transition period.\u00a0 This is an exciting time at UConn as we look ahead to the emerging Bioscience Connecticut initiative with Jackson Laboratories, the unfolding\u00a0plans for the Tech Park, the Storrs Center mixed-use village and the new faculty hiring program.\u00a0 We will continue to emphasize interdisciplinary collaboration and partnerships to achieve the important mission of our institution,\u201d noted Dean Choi.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Dean Choi\u2019s and Associate Dean Kazerounian\u2019s accomplishments <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/about-drs-mun-choi-and-kazem-kazerounian-brief-bios.php\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are new developments at the University of Connecticut and the School of Engineering.  Dr. Peter J. Nicholls, who has served as Provost and Executive Vice President at UConn with great distinction for the last six years, will be stepping down from that position on May 31, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[56],"class_list":["post-10015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 13:06:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224933,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions\/224933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10015"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=10015"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}