A message from UI President Bruce Harreld:
The University of Utah has named Dan Reed, former University of Iowa vice president for research and economic development, as senior vice president for academic affairs effective July 1, 2018.
Please join me in congratulating Dan on this exciting new opportunity. He made it his mission to expand and highlight the great work of our research community and I know he will have a positive impact in Utah.
Dan is a former corporate vice president and technology policy leader at Microsoft, founding director of the North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute, and department head and director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. He was named the UI’s vice president for research and economic development in 2012.
Dan stepped down from the position in the fall to focus on national research and competitiveness policy and developing new directions in computer and computational science.
He currently chairs the Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) and the steering committee for the National Science Foundation’s Midwest Big Data Hub, and serves on the National Academies Technical Advisory Board for the Army Research Laboratory. He previously served on the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the Federal Communications Commission’s Technical Advisory Committee, and the National Archives Electronic Records Advisory Committee. He has also chaired the board of directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA).
John Keller, dean of the Graduate College and associate provost, began serving as interim vice president for research and economic development Oct. 1. Faculty members David Gier and Aliasger Salem are co-chairs of the search committee tasked with selecting the next vice president for research and economic development.
Bruce Harreld
UI President