Mary J. Sansalone was appointed vice chancellor and chief executive officer of the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The university is a four-year educational institution that enrolls women from across South Asia. It will graduate its first class in 2013.
For the past year, Dr. Sansalone has served as provost and chief academic officer at the university. Previously, she was dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Earlier in her career she was only the second woman to earn tenure and be promoted to full professor at the Cornell University College of Engineering. She also served as vice provost of academic programs at Cornell.
Dr. Sansalone is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Cincinnati. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in structural engineering at Cornell University and a master of public administration degree at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.