Dr. Mahbub Majumdar to serve as the Associate Vice-President of Academic Standards
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Mahbub Majumdar will serve as the Associate Vice-President of Academic Standards, effective immediately.
Dr. Majumdar is spearheading the university’s online learning initiative and is reformulating the faculty promotion criteria. He has initiated improvements in the academic standards in the CSE and MNS Departments over the past eight months, and will be responsible for doing the same across the university.
As someone who has lived at the cutting edge of science since he was a high school student, whose papers are highly cited and whose results in string theory and cosmology are now in textbooks, he is someone well-suited to lead the initiative to improve academic standards. He has been recognized by multiple US presidents for academic achievement and is the National Coach of the Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad. He is also the Acting Dean of the School of Data & Sciences and a professor in the CSE Department. Dr. Majumdar graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his postgraduate education from Stanford University (M.S.) and the University of Cambridge (Ph.D.).
Dr. Philippe Forêt to join as Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Philippe Forêt as the inaugural Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. He will take up his appointment on 1 st July 2020.
Dr. Samia Huq to serve as Dean of General Education
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Samia Huq, formerly the Director of General Education, will serve as the Dean of General Education, effective immediately.
Dr. Huq has restructured general education into a multi-disciplinary initiative that aims to teach students how theory can be implemented in real life, and how real life applications of theoretical subjects such as microeconomics can be extremely rich and varied. Dr. Huq has also helped guide the university forward as it reclaims the initial mission of Sir Abed, which has been denoted BracU 2.0.
Dr. Huq is a distinguished academic whose articles have been published in leading journals. For example, she was the lead author of the chapter on “Religion and social progress: Critical assessments and creative partnerships” in the recent Cambridge University Press publication, Rethinking Society for the 21st Century. Dr. Huq’s speciality is anthropology, particularly applied to religion in South Asia. She also runs the program on Faith and Development in collaboration with the World Faiths development Dialogue at Georgetown University in her capacity as Research Fellow at the Center for Peace and Justice (CPJ) and is an associate professor in the Department of Economics and Social Sciences. Dr. Huq received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University.
Vincent Chang
Vice-Chancellor