Justin Schwartz is an American nuclear engineer. On April 2, 2024, he was named the sole finalist to be Chancellor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Previously, he has served as the provost and Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering at Penn State College of Engineering. During his earlier tenure at North Carolina State University as head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, he received that university's diversity award in 2011 for expanding the female faculty of the department twofold and hiring the first professors who were minorities.
Justin Schwartz | |
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| Born | Park Ridge, Illinois, USA |
| Alma mater | MIT(Ph.D.) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(B.S.) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Penn State College of Engineering North Carolina State University |
| Thesis | Design and stability of a high field toroidal field coil using advanced materials (1990) |
| Website | https://www.engr.psu.edu/justin-schwartz/default.aspx |
Career edit
A native of Illinois, Schwartz attended the University of Illinois at Urbana before pursuing a graduate degree in nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] After graduation, he relocated briefly to Japan,[1] where he served at the National Research Institute for Metals as one of the first Science and Technology Agency of Japan Fellows.[2] After returning to the United States, he worked at his undergraduate alma-mater as an assistant professor before moving to Florida State University as the lead of the HTS Magnets and Materials Group. In 2009, he relocated to North Carolina State University as Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor, where he led the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. During his tenure there, Schwartz worked to increase the diversity of the engineering department, doubling the number of female faculty and bringing into the college its first professors who were minorities in that field.[1] For this work, he received the university's diversity award. In August 2017, he received the role of Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering at Penn State College of Engineering.[3]
Schwartz's areas of focus include superconductivity and electronic materials.[4][5] In 1998, he received the Boom award from the Cryogenic Society of America for "significant contributions to the development of high temperature superconductors for high field systems including NMR, MagLev and energy storage technologies."[4] In 2018, he received the John Bardeen Award from the TMS Functional Material Division for outstanding contributions from a leader in the field of electronic materials.
In 2014, Schwartz was named a fellow of the AAAS for his contributions to science in the area of industrial science and technology.[6]
On April 2, 2024, Schwartz was named the sole finalist to be the chancellor of the University of Colorado Boulder, replacing Chancellor Phil DiStefano after 15 years. [7]
References edit
- ^ a b c Maguire, Marti (2014-10-25). "NCSU professor Justin Schwartz seeks diversity in a field with very little". newsobserver. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
- ^ "Finalists announced in engineering dean search". CU Boulder Today. 2016-04-26. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
- ^ "New Dean for College of Engineering Named, set to Begin in August". Penn State. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
- ^ a b "Awards and Recognitions". Cryogenic Society of America. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
- ^ "Prof. Justin Schwartz Chosen as Recipient of the 2018 TMS Functional Materials Division John Bardeen Award! | IEEE Council on Superconductivity". ieeecsc.org. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
- ^ "New AAAS Fellows Recognized for Their Contributions to Advancing Science". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
- ^ "President Saliman Announces CU Boulder Chancellor Finalist". University of Colorado. Retrieved 2024-04-02.