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April 19, 2012

Vice provost stepping down

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George E. Klinzing

George E. Klinzing, vice provost for Research since 1995, is stepping down from that post to return to the Swanson School of Engineering faculty. Klinzing, who has been Whiteford Energy Professor since 1990 and professor of chemical and petroleum engineering since 1966, is expected to resume his faculty duties full time in September.

Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg said: “George Klinzing has served as the University’s chief research officer during a period in which Pitt’s funded research has more than quadrupled, resulting in hundreds of millions of additional dollars flowing into the commonwealth annually, creating not only untold advances in the health sciences, basic science and engineering, but thousands of new jobs.

“In 2001, for instance, he oversaw the development of the Technology Commercialization Alliance’s successful process to commercialize the research work of Pitt faculty, staff and students. Since then, the number of invention disclosures at Pitt has increased sixfold.”

Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Patricia E. Beeson said, “[Klinzing] has played a key role in the development and expansion of interdisciplinary research through the creation of centers such as the Petersen Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering, the Simulation and Modeling Center, the Center for National Preparedness and the Center for Energy.”

Klinzing will continue to serve as an adviser on interdisciplinary research teams after he resumes his role as a full-time engineering faculty member.

A search committee is being formed with the aim of identifying Klinzing’s successor before the beginning of the fall term.


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