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Struppa named Dean of CASDaniele C. Struppa, international scholar and mathematician, has been named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). The announcement was made by President Alan G. Merten. "The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest academic unit at George Mason. Thus, to have someone of Dr. Struppa's caliber as an academician and proven leader is very much in keeping with the leadership role we look for it to play in terms of our ongoing research, outreach, interdisciplinary collaborations, and innovations in teaching," says Merten. Struppa has served as a professor of mathematics at George Mason since 1989. He has been interim dean of CAS since July 1997. Prior to that, he was CAS's associate dean for graduate studies from 1996 to 1997 and chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 1994 to 1996. This year, he is a member of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. His latest book, Fundamentals of Algebraic Microlocal Analysis, will appear in January 1999. Before coming to George Mason, Struppa taught at the University of Calabria, at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, and at the University of Milano. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Maryland in 1985 and at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences of Kyoto University in 1987. He earned a laurea in mathematics from the University of Milano and his doctorate at the University of Maryland. CAS is home to 15 departments in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It offers 23 different undergraduate majors, 38 minors, and 20 graduate programs to more than 7,000 students. It is the largest and most comprehensive academic unit at the university. Under Struppa's leadership, CAS has recruited and hired an internationally recognized research group comprising Steve Schiff, Paul So, and Bruce man, whose work on dynamical systems and applications to neuroscience is groundbreaking. The college strengthened the undergraduate Honors Program in General Education, and established undergraduate honors programs in several academic departments. Struppa initiated the College of Arts and Sciences Scholarly Award, an honor bestowed annually upon an outstanding faculty member whose recent scholarly work is of special significance. He established the CAS Distinguished Scholars program, which recognizes and honors the college's exceptional faculty members who have risen through the ranks at George Mason. He also established the Mathy Junior Faculty Awards in the Arts and Humanities, a program that awards junior faculty members from CAS and the Institute of the Arts course releases to work to become published scholars or active artists in their early years at George Mason. A partner to this award, the Mathy Outstanding Students in the Arts and Humanities provides funds to students to create scholarly or artistic works. Struppa's objectives for the near future include a strong focus on increasing the quality of undergraduate academic life through general education and honors programs. At the graduate level, he is committed to establishing a Ph.D. program in history and new media, the first of its kind in the nation, and a new master's degree in anthropology. He is also committed to the partnership ment at Belmont Bay, the Potomac Environmental Research and Education Center (PEREC). Struppa is a member of the George Mason University Foundation and the Falls Church/Fairfax United Way Executive Council. Since 1995, he has volunteered weekly at the Girls Probation House and Sunrise Probation School in Fairfax, tutoring girls in mathematics. Each month, he also tutors a group of advanced 10-year-old girls in mathematics.
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