2017-2018 Physical Science & Engineering Area Committee and Tenure Appointments Committee
The Tenure, Appointments and Promotions Committees (TACs) include a group of Full Professors from the relevant area (Humanities; Social Sciences; Biological Sciences; Physical Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences) who serve as members of the area committee, along with a representative from a department or program outside the area (the “outside member”). In cases involving faculty from one of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) departments, the Dean of the SEAS also sits on the committee as a voting member. Each Area Committee is chaired by the Divisional Dean or Director of its corresponding academic division, and the Dean of the FAS oversees the four TACs. TACs review all appointments and promotions to the ranks of Associate Professor on term (Nontenured associate, AOPN); Associate Professor without term (Tenured associate, AOPT); and Professor (PROF).
Committee Membership
Pieter van Dokkum | Committee Chair, Physical Sciences and Engineering Advisory Committee; Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics
Hui Cao | Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics
Debra Fischer (fall only) | Professor of Astronomy and of Geology and Geophysics
Bonnie Fleming | Professor of Physics
Karsten Heeger (spring only) | Professor of Physics
Seth Herzon | Professor of Chemistry
Mark Johnson | Arthur T. Kemp Professor of Chemistry
Peter Jones | James E. English Professor of Mathematics
Andre Levchenko | John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Holly Rushmeier (fall only) | Professor of Computer Science
Hong Tang | Llewellyn West Jones, Jr. Professor of Engineering
John Wettlaufer (fall only) | A. M. Bateman Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Professor of Mathematics and of Physics
Tenure and Appointments Committee Members Only
Tamar Szabó Gendler | Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Yuichi Kitamura | Professor of Economics and Management
TAC Member for Cases in Engineering and Applied Science
Kyle Vanderlick (fall only) | TAC Member for Cases in Engineering and Applied Science: Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science; Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.
Mitchell Smooke (spring only) | Acting Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, Strathcona Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science