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Lance R. Collins   (Ex-officio Member of the Council)   Cornell University

Lance R. Collins is serving his second term as the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering. He served as
the S. C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering from 2005 to 2010. He joined Cornell in 2002,
following 11 years on the chemical engineering faculty at Pennsylvania
State University. Collins
at Cornell University. He was part of the Cornell leadership team that successfully
won the bid to partner with New York City to build a new campus focused
on innovation and commercialization in the tech sector on Roosevelt
Island. His research combines simulation and theory to investigate
a broad range of turbulent flow processes, including the motion of aerosol
particles in turbulence, mixing and chemical reactions in turbulent
flames, turbulent breakup of drops, and drag reduction due to polymer
additives. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, chairs the U.S.
National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and serves
on the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, the latter two
committees operating under auspices of the U.S. National AcademiesCornell Tech, which opened its
Roosevelt Island campus in 2017. Collins has accelerated the college’s efforts in
diversity. Since 2007, Cornell Engineering tripled the proportion of underrepresented
minority students from 7 to 21 percent; over the same period, undergraduate
women increased from 28 to 50 percent, more than twice the national
average. For these efforts, he received the inaugural Mosaic Medal of Distinction
from Cornell Mosaic and the Edward Bouchet Legacy Award from the Bouchet
Graduate Honor Society. Collins is a professor of mechanical and aerospace
engineering. His research is focused on the application of direct numerical
simulation to a broad range of turbulent processes. He has been elected fellow of
the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. In 2014, he received
the William Grimes Award from the AIChE. Collins graduated from Princeton in
1981 with high honors and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, all
in chemical engineering.

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