IU Bloomington Appoints Dean of College of Arts and Sciences
Rick Van Kooten
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowIndiana University Bloomington has appointed Rick Van Kooten, IU Bloomington’s vice provost for research, as executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences starting July 1. Van Kooten is a physicist and has served as chair of the Department of Physics before becoming vice provost.
"Rick Van Kooten will bring a wealth of academic and administrative experience to the position of executive dean of the College," IU President Michael A. McRobbie said. "As a senior administrator, he has overseen a number of major strategic initiatives that have advanced the quality and impact of the university’s research enterprise. He is also an outstanding physicist who has developed a reputation among his colleagues here at IU and around the world as a highly knowledgeable, respected and effective collaborator."
He joined the IU Bloomington faculty in 1993 as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics. Van Kooten has authored, or co-authored, more than 750 publications in physics, most in particle physics. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto and a master’s degree from Stanford University.