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August 31, 2007|Volume 36, Number 1|Two-Week Issue

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Judith Chevalier



Deputy provosts for science,
faculty development

Yale Provost Andrew D. Hamilton has announced the appointment of two new deputy provosts.

Judith Chevalier, the William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics, has been named to the new post of deputy provost for faculty development. Steven Girvin, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, has been appointed deputy provost for science and technology. Both will begin their new posts on Sept. 1.

The appointments were precipitated by the departure of former deputy provost Kim Bottomly, who was named president of Wellesley College. Hamilton says that the division of her former job responsibilities allows for the new deputy provosts to give full attention to their particular areas.

“Because of the high value we place on faculty career development, in general, and the continued diversification of faculty, in particular, we have decided to divide Kim’s former responsibilities and create a new deputy provost dedicated to faculty development,” said Hamilton in an­nouncing the new appointments. “This allows us to return the full attentions of a deputy provost to another of our institutional priorities, the strengthening of science and technology at Yale.”

Deputy provosts help shape and implement the academic, administrative and budgetary policies of the University. Chevalier will work with deans and other deputy and associate provosts on developing new programs and policies focused on increasing faculty diversity and the retention of women and underrepresented minorities in the sciences, and establishing career development for all faculty. Girvin will take responsibility for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences departments in the natural sciences and the Departments of Anthropology, Psychology, Statistics and Linguistics, as well as the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, in addition to several administrative units that contribute directly to activities in the sciences. He will also be part of the planning team engaged in integrating the research facilities at the new West Campus (the former Bayer pharmaceutical site) into the scientific enterprise of the University.

Chevalier, a 1989 graduate of Yale College, holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was previously an assistant professor at Harvard University and a professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Her research is in the areas of both finance and industrial organization. Chevalier is an elected member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association, a former co-editor of the American Economic Review and a former board member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economic Profession. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she won the first biennial Elaine Bennett Prize given by the American Economic Association in 1999. At Yale, she is a member of the council of the Women Faculty Forum, a fellow of Davenport College and a member of the executive committee for the MacMillan Center.



Steven Girvin


Girvin earned his B.S. in physics from Bates College and master’s degrees from the University of Maine and Princeton University, where he also received his Ph.D. He did postdoctoral research at Indiana University and at Chalmers University in Göteborg, Sweden. After serving as a staff physicist at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) from 1979 to 1987, Girvin joined the faculty of Indiana University and moved to Yale in 2001. His research focuses on theoretical studies of collective quantum behavior in many particle systems. Since coming to Yale, he has also been interested in quantum optics and quantum computation. A member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, he was awarded the Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society in 2007. At Yale, he is a fellow of Morse College and previously served as director of graduate studies in physics and as an associate director of the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering.

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