Sylvia Lavin was promoted from interim dean to permanent dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University. Dr. Lavin has been a Princeton faculty member since 2018. She is known for her scholarship on architectural history and design, from eighteenth-century architectural theory in France to mid-century modernism. Her forthcoming book, Arboreal Media and the Making of American Architecture (MIT Press), is a media-environmental history of American architecture.
An alumna of Barnard College in New York City, Dr. Lavin earned two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. from the department of art history and archaeology at Columbia University.
Heather Ross has been appointed dean of the Ivester College of Health Sciences at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia. A faculty member since 2015, Dr. Ross has been serving as director and chair of the department of physical therapy and assistant dean of Ivester College. As a physical therapist, she has practiced in the acute, sub-acute, and outpatient settings, primarily serving patients with neurological diseases.
Dr. Ross holds a bachelor’s degree in exercise and sport science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a master of physical therapy degree from East Carolina University in North Carolina, and a Ph.D. in anatomy and neurobiology from Virginia Commonwealth University. Professor Ross completed postdoctoral training in anatomy and cell biology at the University of Florida’s McKnight Brain Institute.
Tanya Zlateva is interim dean of the School of Hospitality Administration at Boston University. Dr. Zlateva, who also serves as director for education in Boston University’s Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cybersecurity, has extensive experience in online course delivery and development. She previously led the university’s Metropolitan College and Extended Education. Her research interests include computational modeling of visual perception, parallel and distributed processing, and pattern recognition.
Dr. Zlateva earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Dresden University of Technology in Germany.