Ravi Bellamkonda named Provost
Ravi Bellamkonda will begin his tenure as Emory's next provost and executive vice president for academic affairs on July 1, 2021. He also will serve as a faculty member in the Department of Biology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, with a joint appointment in biomedical engineering at the School of Medicine. Having served as dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering for the past five years, Bellamkonda makes his return to Emory, having held a joint faculty appointment at Emory and Georgia Institute of Technology beginning in 2003 and then serving as chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering from 2013 to 2016. In his first remarks since being appointed, Bellamkonda noted, “this amazing university has the potential to lead in so many areas: from the creative arts and medicine to undergraduate and graduate education and beyond.”
FAQs on COVID-19 Tenure Clock Extensions
As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, measures have been created to anticipate the need to extend the tenure clock twice and to antipate need for a minimum of three years. These measures fall under three primary categories, including faculty development opportunities, affording faculty time, and adjustments for lost resources.
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