BartaBangla Desk :: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Chancellor Divina Grossman today announced the appointment of Dr. Mohammad A. Karim, vice president for research at Old Dominion University in Virginia, as provost and executive vice chancellor for academic and student affairs.
“We are pleased to welcome an academic leader of Dr. Karim’s stature to UMass Dartmouth,” Grossman said. “As we aspire to develop the transformative teaching, research, and engagement activity of our university at a time of rapid change, Dr. Karim’s passion for learning and discovery, his administrative experience, and his innovative spirit are sure to be valuable assets in positioning our students and faculty and excel.”
Karim’s appointment follows a national search and screening process conducted by a 20-member committee of UMass Dartmouth faculty and staff and co-chaired by UMass Lowell Provost Ahmed Abdelal and UMass Dartmouth Professor Sigal Gottlieb, who is director of the Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research.
As Old Dominion’s first vice president for research, Karim led efforts to grow the university’s research enterprise from $34.8 million to $104.6 million, improving ODU’s research rankings across a variety of fields, including oceanography, business, engineering, education and the arts.
He oversees a 1,302-person team that includes 216 faculty researchers, 262 non-faculty professionals, 286 graduate research assistants, and 603 others.
