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FLORHAM PARK RESIDENT NAMED
ASSOCIATE PROVOST FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AT NJIT
Newark, N.J., June 23, 1998 – An expert in pilot testing of innovative prevention, treatment and remediation of environmental technologies has been named Associate Provost for Research and Development at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Since 1992, Dr. Richard Magee, of Florham Park, N.J., has served as executive director of the Otto H. York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science (CEES) at NJIT, responsible for the overall management of four research centers, a technical assistance program, a pollution prevention initiative and five international programs.
The Associate Provost for Research and Development is the chief spokesperson for research at NJIT. Magee will be responsible for developing corporate liaisons, informing faculty, chairpersons and deans of research opportunities, working with the college deans in forming research teams to compete effectively for funding, and assuring the academic and financial integrity of research and development projects at the university.
Dr. Magee joined NJIT in 1987 as executive director of the Hazardous Substance Management Research Center (HSMRC). Under his leadership, CEES/HSMRC has secured more than $100 million in externally funded research, placing the research centers among the largest university-based in the nation.
Magee holds joint professorial appointments in NJIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Environmental Science.
Prior to joining NJIT, Magee served at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he directed the Stevens Energy Center and the HSMRC Incineration Division.
Magee is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a diplomat of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. Because of his research interests in combustion and in the incineration of municipal and industrial wastes, he has served as vice chairman of the ASME Research Committee on Industrial and Municipal Wastes and as a member of the United Nations Special Commission Advisory Panel on the Destruction of Iraq’s Chemical Weapons Capabilities. He presently serves as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Science Committee Priority Area Panel on Disarmament Technologies and as chairman of the Committee on the Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program for the National Research Council’s Board on Army Science and Technology.
NJIT is a public research university enrolling nearly 8,200 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students in 76 degree programs through its five colleges: Newark College of Engineering, School of Architecture, College of Science and Liberal Arts, the School of Management and the Albert Dorman Honors College. Research initiatives include manufacturing, microelectronics, transportation, computer science, solar astrophysics, environmental engineering and science, and architecture and building science. U.S. News and World Report's "1998 Annual Guide to America’s Best Colleges" ranked NJIT among the top 175 national universities. Money magazine's "Best College Buys 1998" rated NJIT as the sixth best value among U.S. science and technology colleges and universities. Yahoo! Internet Life magazine ranks NJIT No. 2 on the list of "America’s 100 Most Wired Colleges."
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