| 5 candidates for Research vice chancellor named by Daniel J. Fitzgibbons, Chronicle staff
The other candidates, Amar Gupta, co-director of the PROFIT Initiative at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rahmat Shoureshi, associate vice president for technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines; and Harris Pastides, interim vice president for research at the University of South Carolina, are scheduled to visit campus over the next 10 days. Goldstein has been dean since 1993 and previously served seven years as vice president for graduate studies and research at Le-high University. Under Goldstein, the college started a $25 million campaign, which brought in the first $1 million gift to the school. The college also joined with the universities of Connecticut and Rhode Island to secure a two-year, $12.4 million ARPA Manufacturing Education grant. The college has also increased the size of its entering classes from 220 to 350 per year, improved the quality of entering students and boosted the number of women faculty from five to nine. Goldstein has been particularly involved in the development of the electron probe microanalyzer, scanning electron microscope, and analytical electron microscope for application to problems in materials science and engineering. He has authored more than 200 articles in scholarly journals along with several books and has served as editor for several prestigious journals. Goldstein is the recipient of a number of national honors and awards. After serving as professor and chair of the department of chemistry at Kent State, Bose was appointed vice president for research and dean of graduate studies in April 2002. His division's responsibilities include assisting faculty researchers in applying for external funding; overseeing all advanced degree programs; coordinating all initiatives related to the recruitment and retention of more than 4,500 graduate students; fostering interdisciplinary research and facilitating the commercialization of university-related research. Bose's primary research interest and activities include the identification of key genes in response to effective cancer chemotherapeutic treatments, mechanisms of heavy metal induced carcinogenesis, elucidation of structures and functions of metallo-proteins. He has secured more than $2.5 million in research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Dept. of Education and the Ohio Board of Regents. He has published more than 130 articles in refereed journals, abstracts and proceedings, and presented numerous invited speeches at academic institutions around the globe. Gupta has been co-director of the PROFIT (Productivity From Information Technology) Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management since 1992. He joined MIT in 1979 as a research assistant and was appointed in 1991 as the first senior research scientist at the Sloan School. He has been involved in information technology research projects totaling about $18 million in external funding, including $2.3 million for projects in which he was the sole principal investigator. He is the editor or co-editor of seven books and the author or co-author of more than 100 refereed articles, journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, technical reports and working papers. Since 2001, Shoureshi has been associate vice president for technology transfer at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM), which he joined in 1994 as the G.A. Dobleman Distinguished Chair Professor of Engineering. Also in 1994, he became director of the school's Center for Automation, Robotics and Distributed Systems (CARDI) and the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (CSM-PSERC). In 1998, he became the founding director of National Science Foundation Center for Intelligent Biomedical Devices and Musculoskeletal Systems, which integrates programs and expertise from the Colorado School of Mines, Rocky Mountain Musculoskeletal Research Laboratories, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the Colorado Veterans Affairs Research Center across a range of disciplines including engineering, materials and medicine. From 1981-83, Shoureshi was on the faculty of Wayne State University. In 1983, he joined the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University serving as chairman of the Manufacturing and Materials Processing area and from 1992-94, chairman of the Systems, Measurement and Control area. Pastides is no stranger to UMass; he was a faculty member in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences from 1980-98, including a five-year stint as chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He left UMass in 1998 to become dean of the Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. Last year, he was appointed interim vice president for research at USC. Pastides' research interests are health disparities, occupational and environmental epidemiology, international health, and applied research on environmental health issues in developing countries. Vice chancellor candidate forums Rahmat Shoureshi Harris Pastides Candidates' vitas and feedback forms will be
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