HR Notices from June 24-26
Marie Lynn Miranda named new SNRE dean at UM: One of the nation's leading researchers in children's environmental health, Marie Lynn Miranda, will be the new dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, effective Jan. 1, pending approval from the University of Michigan Board of Regents. Miranda is a faculty member in the Nicholas School of the Environment, the Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program and the Global Health Institute at Duke University. She also is a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics within Duke Medicine. The Detroit native has devoted much of her professional career to research directed at improving the health status of disadvantaged populations, particularly children. She is the founding director of the Children's Environmental Health Initiative, a research, education and outreach program that fosters environments where all children can prosper. She has held the director post since 1999. CEHI's peer-reviewed work is widely cited, including in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's current integrated science assessment on revisions to the national ambient air quality standard for lead. CEHI also works closely with a wide range of organizations and non-profits in addressing children's environmental health issues in the community. In 2008, CEHI won the EPA's Environmental Justice Achievement Award. Among her many academic leadership positions, Miranda has chaired the Nicholas School's faculty council and is completing two years of service as vice-chair of the university-wide Executive Committee of the Academic Council. She is also a member of the Business and Finance Committee of the Duke Board of Trustees, the University Priorities Committee, and the Duke Translational Medicine Institute's Leadership Group. Miranda earned her A.B. degree from Duke University in 1985 and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University in 1988 and 1990, respectively. She joined the Duke faculty as an assistant professor of public policy in the Sanford Institute of Public Policy in 1990. In 1995, she transferred her faculty appointment to the Nicholas School of the Environment, where she was assistant professor of the practice of environmental policy and director of undergraduate programs. In 1999, she was promoted to associate professor of the practice of environmental policy and became a faculty member in the integrated toxicology program and founding director of the Children's Environmental Health Initiative. From 2000 to 2005, Miranda held the Dan and Margaret Gabel Chair in Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Environmental Management, one of Duke's fixed-term endowed chairs. In December 2007, she became associate professor (with tenure) of environmental sciences and policy and pediatrics. Effective July 1, 2011, she will be promoted to professor in the Nicholas School and the Department of Pediatrics. Miranda will replace Rosina Bierbaum, who will remain on the SNRE faculty.
