A message from UW Provost and Executive Vice President Gerald J. Baldasty
Dear Colleagues:
Because of family responsibilities, Dr. Anind Dey will begin as dean of the iSchool on Jan. 1. Until then, Dr. Carole Palmer has agreed to serve as interim dean, beginning Sept. 1.
President Ana Mari Cauce and I are delighted that Carole has accepted this position. Carole has built a strong record of research, teaching and service here at the UW and will be the ideal interim leader for the school.
Carole is a professor and associate dean for research at the iSchool and serves in the dean’s leadership cabinet. Her research focuses on advancing data services, especially for interdisciplinary inquiry. She earned her Ph.D. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her master’s is from Vanderbilt University, while her bachelor’s is from Southern Illinois University. Among her honors is the Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award, which she was awarded in 2013 by the Association for Information Science & Technology.
Anind, as you may remember, has been a professor at Carnegie Mellon since 2005. He has also held positions at Intel Research in Berkeley from 2001 to 2004, and at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2002 to 2005. Anind earned his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Simon Fraser University in Canada. He holds two master’s degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology – one in aerospace engineering and one in computer science. He received his Ph.D. in computer science, also from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
I look forward to working with Carole and with Dean-designate Dey throughout the autumn to maintain the great momentum and work of the iSchool. Thank you to Harry Bruce, who will be stepping down as dean at the end of this summer, for his years of service to the iSchool and the University.
Sincerely,
Gerald J. Baldasty
Provost and Executive Vice President
Professor, Department of Communication