{"id":10483,"date":"2011-06-09T14:51:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T19:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=10483"},"modified":"2011-06-10T08:14:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T13:14:50","slug":"brock-appoints-new-dean-of-mathematics-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/06\/brock-appoints-new-dean-of-mathematics-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock appoints new Dean of Mathematics and Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Syed Ejaz Ahmed \u2014 currently a professor and head of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Windsor \u2014 is Brock&#8217;s new Dean of <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/mathematics-science\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty of Mathematics and Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10482\" style=\"width: 147px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10482\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10482\" title=\"Syed Ejaz Ahmed\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ahmed.jpg\" alt=\"Syed Ejaz Ahmed\" width=\"137\" height=\"189\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Syed Ejaz Ahmed<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ahmed will take up his new position on Jan. 1, 2012. In the meantime, Rick Cheel, professor of Earth Sciences, will stay on for a six-month extension as Interim Dean.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made today by Murray Knuttila, Provost and Vice-President Academic.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed has been at the University of Windsor since 2002. He received his MSc from the University of Guelph in 1984 and his PhD from Carleton University in 1987. He taught at the University of Regina from 1989-2002, the last three years as head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed was also an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario from 1987-89, and a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed\u2019s area of expertise includes statistical inference, multivariate analysis and asymptotic theory. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and was the founding director for the Centre for Statistical Consulting, Research, Learning and Services.<\/p>\n<p>He has made more than 120 scholarly presentations in countries around the world, authored more than 125 peer-reviewed articles and reviewed more than 70 books and research volumes. He is co-author of a popular textbook <em>Introduction to Probability and Statistics<\/em>, and author of two other textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>Knuttila said the new Dean emerged from a strong field of candidates who sought the appointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we look forward to gaining a scholar of Dr. Ahmed\u2019s calibre, I  also want to express the University\u2019s sincere appreciation to Rick  Cheel, who has led the Faculty of Mathematics and Science for more than a  year while we conducted the national search for a permanent  replacement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syed Ejaz Ahmed is currently a professor and head of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Windsor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10489,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483\/revisions\/10489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}