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April 1, 2019 (Dartmouth News) -- Alexis Abramson, a mechanical engineer and a leader in sustainable energy technology, has been named dean of Thayer School of Engineering. She will begin work on June 17.
Currently the Milton and Tamar Maltz Professor of Energy Innovation at Case Western Reserve University and co-director of the university’s Great Lakes Energy Institute, Abramson will be the second woman to serve as Thayer’s dean. The first, Elsa Garmire, the Sydney E. Junkins 1887 Professor of Engineering Emerita, led the engineering school from 1995 to 1997.
“Alexis Abramson brings deep expertise in sustainable energy and in building partnerships that connect academic research with public and private efforts to find solutions to urgent challenges,” says President Philip J. Hanlon ’77. “I am delighted that she will be Thayer’s next leader.”