| Lance R. Collins |
Lance R. Collins is serving his second term as the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering
at Cornell University. He was part of the leadership team that successfully
bid to partner with New York City to build Cornell 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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