Congratulations to department alum, Mary Sue Coleman who was named as a new board of director for the Kavli Foundation
The Kavli Foundation鈥檚 Board of Directors has announced the election of three new board members: Mary Sue Coleman, President of the University of Michigan; Richard A. Meserve, President of the Carnegie Institution for Science; and Gunnar K. Nilsen, President of BizArch Advisors.
With these appointments, the Foundation expands its Board of Directors from five to eight directors. Board membership had been reduced from seven by the passing in late 2013 of both Fred Kavli, Founder and Founding Chairman of The Kavli Foundation, and Charles M. Vest, Past President of the National Academy of Engineering and President Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Dr. Coleman has been president of the University of Michigan since 2002, where she has gained recognition as one of the nation鈥檚 preeminent leaders of higher education. Named by Time Magazine as one of the nation鈥檚 鈥�10 best college presidents,鈥� Dr. Coleman鈥檚 initiatives have included launching and expanding academic partnerships around the world, as well as a groundbreaking partnership between the University and Google to allow the public to have universal access to the university鈥檚 7-million-volume library. President Obama selected her as one of six university presidents to help launch the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, a national effort bringing together industry, universities and the federal government. And in 2010, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke named her co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She is the immediate past chair of the Association of American Universities. Elected to the Institute of Medicine, Dr. Coleman also is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prior to becoming president of the University of Michigan, Dr. Coleman was president of the University of Iowa. ()