As quoted from the MPS website..."Beginning October 1, 2007, Dr. Jeffery McNeal will join the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences as Associate Dean for Research, Budget, and Graduate Studies. Currently a professor in the Department of Mathematics, Dr. McNeal will retain his professorship while serving as Associate Dean for MAPS.
Dr. McNeal has been an Ohio State mathematics faculty member for more than a decade, coming to OSU from Princeton University, where he was a faculty member from 1988 to 1996, and director of graduate studies from 1993 through 1996. In his new role in MAPS, he will assume some of the duties associated with the position formerly held by Associate Dean Jeff Daniels, who has returned to full-time teaching and research in the School of Earth Sciences. In addition to those responsibilities, McNeal will work with Dean Platz and the College’s fiscal officer to develop and implement a strategic plan for MAPS.
Throughout his career, Dr. McNeal has received a number of prestigious honors that include the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics Fellowship, and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
His research in real and complex analysis has received continuous NSF funding since 1989, and he has been an invited speaker at numerous academic institutions nationwide, including Purdue, Princeton, and Harvard Universities. He has also served as the principal speaker at conferences throughout the world, and he has held prestigious visiting faculty positions at Harvard University, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, California, the Schrodinger Institute in Vienna, Austria, and the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, Germany.
McNeal brings to his new position as Associate Dean more than 10 years of service on the Department of Mathematics’ advisory committees, lecture committees, the Graduate Studies Committee, the Master’s Task Force, and the Communications Committee. He has also served on the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Panel, and he is an editor for the Journal of Geometric Analysis.
Commenting on what he hopes to accomplish while working with the College’s fiscal, research, and graduate studies programs, McNeal says, “There are an impressive number of world-renowned scientists in MAPS, and the Associate Dean’s job, as I see it, is to facilitate these scientists’ work by helping them identify resources that will support their research programs.”
Adding that his position as Associate Dean will include fiscal administration, McNeal says, “The goal of this College is to see that the departments in MAPS prosper—scientifically and educationally—and I look forward to working with Dean Platz and the department chairs to improve our internal financial procedures, to enlarge our external financial sources, and to strengthen the six already strong graduate programs in the College.”
Please join the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in welcoming Professor Jeffery McNeal to his new position as Associate Dean for Research, Budget, and Graduate Studies."