UIndy Appoints Dean

Patrick Van Fleet

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The University of Indianapolis has appointed Patrick Van Fleet dean of the Shaheen College of Arts & Sciences effective July 26. He most recently served as professor and chair for the Department of Mathematics at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Van Fleet also served as director of the endowed Center for Applied Mathematics at St. Thomas. During that time, he was funded by the National Science Foundation on four projects totaling $1.3 million, wrote three books on wavelet theory, published several papers on wavelet theory and spline functions, and led numerous undergraduate research projects. He was a 2016 recipient of the John Ireland Presidential Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Teacher-Scholar at the University of St. Thomas.

Van Fleet earned his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics (education emphasis) from Western Illinois University and his Master of Science and PhD in mathematics from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He worked at Sam Houston State University from 1992-1998, where he performed research in the emerging field of wavelet theory (funded in part by the National Science Foundation) and led a large project funded by a branch of the Department of Defense. In 1998, he became director of the endowed Center for Applied Mathematics at the University of St. Thomas and from 2011 served as chair of the Department of Mathematics.