 | T. Kyle Vanderlick |
T. Kyle Vanderlick has been appointed dean of Yale Engineering and the Thomas
E. Golden Professor of Engineering, President Richard C. Levin announced.
T H I S
Award-winning researcher
named new engineering dean
An award-winning researcher and teacher, Vanderlick is currently professor and
chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University. Her
appointment at Yale is effective Jan. 1.
“Professor Vanderlick is a respected scholar, dynamic teacher and seasoned
administrator known for her unflagging energy, breadth of vision, charisma and
ability to lead while building consensus,” Levin said. “She has worked
to strengthen her department’s interconnections with other disciplines
and has successfully led an expansion of the faculty in the areas of life sciences
and soft materials.”
A leading expert on interfacial forces — interactions that occur near or
between surfaces — Vanderlick conducts research that aims to measure, control
and understand the properties of interfaces and thin films, especially those
with relevance to materials science and biology. Her research group specializes
in the application and development of experimental methods designed to probe
the properties of surfaces, confined fluids and membranes. Her work has led to
new and fundamental insights across a range of areas spanning from metallic adhesion
in micro/nano-scale devices to the action of antimicrobial peptides on cell membranes.
At Princeton, she has taught the campus-wide materials science course as well
as courses in fluid mechanics, interfacial science and engineering, and a freshman
seminar titled “The Engineering of Ice Cream,” and she has been
praised for setting a “new standard for teaching excellence.” In
2002 she was awarded both the Princeton Engineering Council Teaching Award and
the Princeton President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. At the University
of Pennsylvania, where she taught for nine years, she received the 1993 Lindback
Award for Distinguished Teaching, the university’s highest teaching honor.
Vanderlick has a B.S. and M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D.
in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota. She launched her academic
career after completing a NATO postdoctoral fellowship in Mainz, Germany. She
received a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in 1991 and was named
a Presidential Young Investigator by the National Science Foundation in 1989.
Vanderlick will succeed Paul A. Fleury, the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of
Engineering and Applied Physics and professor of physics, who has served as dean
of Yale Engineering since 2000. Fleury will remain the director the Yale Institute
for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering.
“We owe much to Paul for the growth and development of Yale Engineering
during his tenure,” Levin said. “Among his many accomplishments are
his leadership in a University-wide effort to establish a Department of Biomedical
Engineering, the planning and design of the stunning Daniel L. Malone Engineering
Center, and the recruitment of more than 50% of the school’s current faculty.”
Levin also thanked Provost Andrew Hamilton and the members of the search committee “who
worked hard to ensure the stewardship of Yale Engineering.” The members
included former Deputy Provost Kim Bottomly (now the president of Wellesley College)
and Professors Eric Dufresne, Meny Elimelech, Steve Girvin (now the deputy provost
for science and technology), Gary Haller, T.P. Ma, Janet Pan, Lynne Regan, Mark
Saltzman, Carolyn Slayman and John Tully.
On three occasions in recent years, Yale Engineering’s faculty publications
were ranked number one nationally by the ISI Citation Index for impact of published
research in the top engineering journals. In addition, the last survey from the
American Society for Engineering Education showed that Yale ranked first in the
percentage of bachelor’s degrees awarded to women.
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