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FAU Division of Research and Graduate Studies
Names New Associate Vice President

BOCA RATON, FL (September 6, 2005) - Florida Atlantic University's Division of Research and Graduate Studies has named Dr. Howard Hanson the new Associate Vice President for the Division of Research and Graduate Studies. He has also been appointed as a professor of Geosciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. Hanson will begin at FAU this fall after serving as a technical staff member in the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), which is operated by the University of California for the United States Department of Energy.

As associate vice president, Hanson will assist Dr. Larry F. Lemanski, vice president for research and graduate studies, by providing additional leadership to the Division and by serving as an advocate for both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research programs at FAU.

"I think that my experiences in a governmental research setting will bring some added value to the growing research programs at FAU," said Hanson. "That is why I am joining Vice President Lemanski's team. I hope my background will help move FAU forward on its journey to becoming a world-renowned research university."

Until 2002, Hanson served as group leader of atmospheric and climate sciences, within the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division at Los Alamos. Most recently, he worked within the LANL-Directed Research and Development Program Office, where he provided technical guidance for the $100 million per year of investments made by the program.
Hanson, author of over 75 technical contributions and four novels, is a member of a number of professional societies, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, Sigma Xi and The Oceanography Society. He became a certified consulting meteorologist of the American Meteorological Society in 1997 and currently serves as associate editor of Environmental Science & Policy and on editorial boards of TheScientificWorld. Hanson holds a Ph.D. in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami.

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The mission of FAU's Division of Research and Graduate Studies is to expand and support the university's academic and research programs by promoting the research, scholarly, creative and collaborative activities of faculty and students; encouraging national and international partnerships for workforce development and commercialization of research endeavors; enhancing the research infrastructure of the University to support the community in an ever-changing world; and providing an environment for timely production of graduate degrees through an educational experience of national and international excellence.