MTL faculty member Joel Dawson was named to the Carl Richard Soderberg Career Development Professorship of Power Engineering by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The three-year appointment was effective July 1.
Anantha Chandrakasan, a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Associate Director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, was appointed as the next chair holder of the Joseph F. & Nancy P. Keithley Professorship in Electrical Engineering.
President Susan Hockfield announced today that she has appointed Professor L. Rafael Reif as provost of MIT, succeeding Robert A. Brown, who is leaving MIT to become president of Boston University. Reif's appointment will be effective Aug. 1.