Lutgarde Raskin is the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. Dr. Raskin joined Yale this summer after serving as the Vernon L. Snoeyink Distinguished University Professor of Environmental Engineering and the Altarum/ERIM Russell O’Neal Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Earlier, she spent 12 years on the faculty of the University of Illinois. Dr. Raskin is known for introducing molecular biology tools into environmental engineering, leading to the new field of environmental biotechnology.
Dr. Raskin holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in bioscience engineering and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from KU Leuven in Belgium. She earned her Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of Illinois.
Ashley Hope Carlisle was named to the Seibold Professorship at the University of Wyoming. The professorship will allow Carlisle, a professor of sculpture, to pursue new opportunities for the university’s Modern Atelier: Master Craftsman paid apprenticeship program that she founded, work on her permanent public art commission for the Denver Botanic Garden, and continue developing professional practice courses in the university’s department of visual arts. She has been a faculty member at the university for more than two decades.
Professor Carlisle earned her bachelor of fine arts degree in three-dimensional design from the University of Southern Mississippi and a master of fine arts degree in sculpture from the University of Georgia.
Eunice Santos was recently installed as the inaugural Thomas E. and Christine D. Berk Endowed Professor and Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Dr. Santos joined the university in the spring as dean of the College of Engineering and Computing. Before joining Drexel, she was dean of the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois.
Dr. Santos began her college education at age 13, graduating four years later with bachelor’s degrees in math and computer science from Youngstown State University in Ohio. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.