Aptil 30, 2005
Physics Professor Parviz Ansari Named an American
Council on Education FellowProfessor Parviz Ansari
Seton Hall University is pleased to announce that Parviz Ansari,
Ph.D., professor of physics and chair of the Department of Physics,
has been named an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for
the 2005-06 academic year.
The ACE Fellows Program, established in 1965, is designed to strengthen
institutions and leadership in American higher education by identifying
and preparing promising senior faculty and administrators for
responsible positions in college and university administration.
Forty Fellows, nominated by the presidents or chancellors of their
institutions, were selected this year in a national competition.
Ansari has led a stellar career at Seton Hall since he first
joined as an assistant professor in 1983. He has been instrumental
in
furthering the physics department's mission and has been the
chair of the department since 1994. In that time, the department
has
grown substantially through a comprehensive strategic plan,
resulting in a number of major changes with a stronger focus on
teaching
and research, including the implementation of new double degree
programs with New Jersey Institute of Technology.
In its March 1999 issue, The Physics Teacher named Seton Hall's
physics department one of the seven "big gainers" in
the nation (view an Adobe PDF of the article), based on the rate
of growth in physics bachelor's degrees earned. Ansari contributed
to the nearly 250 percent increase in students majoring in physics.
Ansari has played a vital role in securing major grants for
Seton Hall's new Science and Technology Center, for which construction
will begin this summer. Over the years, he has acquired instrumentation
and research grants from industry, state and federal agencies.
Ansari publishes regularly and has lectured at national and
international
conferences, and his research has been performed at Brookhaven
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