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Domenico Grasso
6th Chancellor of the University of Michigan–Dearborn
Incumbent
Assumed office
August 1, 2018
Preceded byDaniel Little
Provost of the University of Delaware
In office
August 15, 2013 – October 15, 2017
Preceded byTom Apple
Succeeded byRobin W. Morgan
Personal details
Born1955 (age 68–69)
Worcester, Massachusetts
SpouseSusan Hull
Children4
Alma materWorcester Polytechnic Institute (BS)
Purdue University (MS)
University of Michigan (PhD)
ProfessionProfessor and engineer
WebsiteOffice of the Chancellor

Domenico Grasso (born 1955) is an American engineer, professor and the sixth chancellor of the University of Michigan–Dearborn. He has previously served as provost of the University of Delaware, vice president for research and dean of two different colleges at the University of Vermont. Grasso is Smith College's Picker Engineering Program's founding director.[1]

Early life and education

Grasso holds a bachelor of science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, master of science in civil engineering from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.[2]

Grasso is a veteran of the United States Army, serving from 1977 to 1990, and resigned his commission as a major. He received awards that included the Army Service Ribbon, Army Overseas Reserve Components Training Ribbon, Army Commendation Medal and Army Parachutist Badge.[3]

Academic career

Grasso joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1989. He later served as department head from 1998 to 2000.[4] During 1996, Grasso was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.[5]

In 2000, he declined a chair position at Columbia University to become the Smith College's Rosemary Bradford Hewlett Professor, where he became the Picker Engineering Program's first director,[6] the United States' first women's college engineering program.[7] While there, he collaborated with astronaut Sally Ride on TOYChallenge, a nationwide toy design event that encouraged STEM learning for middle school students.[8]

In 2005, Grasso was named the University of Vermont's dean of the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences[9] and later served as vice president for research and dean of the Graduate College.[10] While at UVM, he established the university-wide Complex Systems Center and initiated efforts to broaden engineering education to more intentionally include the liberal arts and social sciences, including the creation of a B.A. program in engineering and a B.S. in engineering science.[11]

Grasso began his appointment as provost at the University of Delaware in 2013.[12] While in office, he created the Division of Enrollment Management and Institute for Financial Services Analytics.[13] He also played a major role in new university programs in the humanities, arts, social sciences and entrepreneurship.[14]

On February 15, 2018, Grasso was named the University of Michigan–Dearborn's sixth chancellor, beginning August 1, 2018.[15] As the first University of Michigan alum to lead the university, he is also a professor of public policy and sustainable engineering and is an executive officer of the University of Michigan.[16]

Among the honors and awards received by Grasso are the AWWA National Doctoral Dissertation Award[17]; being elected Fellow of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors[18]; the Association for Environmental Health and Sciences Foundation Career Achievement Award[19]; the John Cabot University Education Excellence Award[20]; the Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement, WPI[21]; the Water Environment Federation Disinfection Pioneer Award.[22]

Scholarship and research

Grasso's research focuses on how contaminants change and move in the environment over time, as well as processes to reduce their impacts on nature and human health.[23][24] He has also written extensively on the intersection of engineering education with the liberal arts and social sciences.[25][26]

He has authored or co-authored hundreds of journal articles, essays and reports, and was editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Engineering Science.[27] He is the co-editor and chief contributor to the book Holistic Engineering Education: Beyond Technology (Springer 2010).[28] He has also authored the book Hazardous Waste Site Remediation (Routledge 1993)[29] and co-edited the book Hazardous Waste Management (UNESCO-ELOSS 2009).[30]

Grasso has held a variety of distinguished posts in the environmental engineering and science fields, including fellow on the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, technical expert to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, vice chair of the Science Advisory Board for the United States Environmental Protection Agency and president of the AEESP.[31]

Grasso, a member of a World Bank-funded international team that started the first environmental engineering program in Argentina,[32] also chaired the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee that authored Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century: Addressing Grand Challenges and testified before the Congress of the Republic of Peru on sustainable development in Latin America.[33]

Personal life

Grasso is married to the former Susan Jean Hull, a University of Michigan engineering alumna, with whom he has four adult children: Benjamin, Jacob, Elspeth and Caitlin.

References

  1. ^ "The engineer behind Smith's new program". January 4, 2000. Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  2. ^ "About Domenico Grasso". Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  3. ^ "New leaders take the helm at Dearborn's higher learning institutions". Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  4. ^ University, Rowan. "Dr. Domenico Grasso". Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  5. ^ Owens, Caleb (September 26, 2017). "Provost Grasso resigns, plans to return as faculty member". Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  6. ^ "The engineer behind Smith's new program". Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  7. ^ "UVM names interim provost, interim business school dean, dean of graduate college". May 15, 2009. Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  8. ^ Dean, Katie (September 28, 2002). "Sally Ride Toys With Engineering". Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  9. ^ "UVM Appoints Engineering Pioneer Dean of College of Engineering and Mathematics". Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  10. ^ "On paid leave, former University of Delaware provost takes new job". Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  11. ^ "UVM Dean Dom Grasso named University of Delaware provost". January 30, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  12. ^ "University of Delaware names new provost". January 30, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  13. ^ Shannon, Josh. "UD provost to resign Oct. 15". Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  14. ^ "UD provost resigning". September 26, 2017. Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  15. ^ "Grasso named UM Dearborn chancellor". Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  16. ^ "Grasso inaugurated as UM-Dearborn Chancellor". May 23, 2019. Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  17. ^ "AWWA Academic Achievement Awards" (newsletter). Association of Environmental Engineering Professors newsletter. September 1989. pp. 4–5. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  18. ^ "AEESP Fellows". AEESP. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  19. ^ "Career Achievement Award". AEHS Foundation. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  20. ^ "John Cabot University Education Excellence Awards" (PDF). John Cabot University Annual Report Fiscal Year 2016. p. 22. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  21. ^ "ROBERT H. GODDARD ALUMNI AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT". Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  22. ^ "Water Environment Federation Disinfection & Public Health Pioneer Award" (PDF). Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  23. ^ "New report addresses curbing climate change and sustainably supplying food, water, and energy". phys.org. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  24. ^ "Curbing Climate Change and Sustainably Supplying Food, Water, and Energy Among Top Challenges Environmental Engineering Can Help Address, New Report Says". www8.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  25. ^ Fountain, Henry (October 31, 2014). "Putting Art in STEM". Retrieved July 17, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
  26. ^ "9 questions with University of Michigan-Dearborn's new chancellor". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  27. ^ https://home.liebertpub.com/publications/environmental-engineering-science/15
  28. ^ Grasso, Domenico; Burkins, Melody, eds. (July 17, 2010). "Holistic Engineering Education: Beyond Technology". Springer-Verlag. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  29. ^ "Hazardous Waste Site Remediation". taylor & francis group. Routledge. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  30. ^ "Hazardous Waste Management".
  31. ^ "Engineering Chair Named to Two National Posts". www.smith.edu. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  32. ^ Grasso, Domenico; Callahan, Kara M.; Doucett, Sandra (2004). "Defining Engineering Thought" (PDF). International Journal of Engineering Education. 20 (3): 412–415. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  33. ^ University, Rowan. "Dr. Domenico Grasso". EESD 2018 Conference. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
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